International Flute Soloist from Helsinki, Finland to Visit University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Flute Recital
Thursday April 18, 2019
7:30 PM
Flutist Sami Junnonen and Pianist Tatiana Shustova
Flute Masterclass: 2-4 PM
Smith Hall, Smith Memorial Room
Flutist Sami Junnonen will present a recital with pianist Tatiana Shustova on Thursday , April 18, 2019, in Smith Memorial Room at 7:30 pm. The two will perform works by Jolivet, Prokofiev, Debussy, Kuhlau, and Widor. The recital is free and open to the public. In addition, Junnonen will conduct a masterclass at Smith Memorial Room from 11 to 11:20 pm, also with free admission.
Since his debut recital in 2012 at the Helsinki Music Centre of Finland, Sami Junnonen has performed as a soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, served as principal flutist of the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, and taught flute and chamber music at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His recording of the Mozart Flute Quartets won the 2018 Audience Award as Finnish Album of the Year.

More information about Sami Junnonen can be found at https://www.samijunnonen.com/
Dr. Tatiana Shustova is originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. After coming to the United States in 2005, Tatiana completed the Artist’s Certificate Program and a Master’s degree in piano performance at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. There she studied with Maxim Mogilevsky and Dr. Robert Satterlee and won first prize in the 40th annual Concerto Competition. In 2008 she was awarded a fellowship to enter the doctoral program in piano performance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in the studio of Dr. Ian Hobson, and received her DMA in spring 2013.

Tatiana has appeared at several festivals in the United States and in Europe, including the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp; Illinois Summer Youth Music; Bowling Green Music Institute; Toradze Piano Institute (South Bend, Indiana); Ionian Summer Music Academy (Corfu, Greece); Les Orres International Summer Academy (Embrun, France); Suomussalmi Music Festival (Suomussalmi, Finland); Musica Atri (Atri, Italy); and Scuola Italia (Urbania, Italy), and has received numerous awards in solo and chamber music competitions in the US, Italy and Russia. As a collaborative pianist, she has worked at Mussorgsky State College, St. Petersburg, Russia, Bowling Green State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Bradley University.

Tatiana is currently an adjunct faculty member at Millikin University School of Music and a piano, ensemble, theory and musicianship instructor for the Chamber Music Academy and Piano Laboratory Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, she teaches a piano studio of students of all ages in Urbana, Illinois where she resides with her husband and two sons. She also artistic director of the Chambana Music Competition which she established in 2016.

More information about Tatiana can be found at
www.tatianashustova.com

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