International pianist vanishes from university roster
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Alexander Toradze, the Georgian pianist and Valery Gergiev pal, has been a professor at Indiana University South Bend since 1991. They haven’t seen him since last August and have no idea when he’s likely to return.
‘It’s a personnel issue and we can’t comment on it,’ says the college. More here.
He was a jury in the recent Tchaikovsky Competition where he gave this interview, in which he reveals that his father was the composer Reinhold Glière:
http://tch15.medici.tv/fr/news/live-interview-alexander-toradze
That should be “juror”. I was very suprised to hear that Toradze’s father was Sergei Prokofiev’s first (private) teacher!
A. Toradze said clear that his father studied in Moscaw consevatory with Reingold Glier. I saw his family in1969 in Tallinn when Lexso at age 16 took 3rd price at USSR national piano competition and played wonderful Prokofiev 7 sonata. I knew he was a promissing talent. But his beautiful mother-Georgian movie star was even bigger attraction.
You are right, sorry, I misunderstood his English. His father was David Toradze who *studied* with Reinhold Glière.