• Bach-Busoni - I Call On Thee, O Lord (Mogilevsky)
• Dvorak - Two Slavonic Dances (Mogilevsky & Smolina)
• Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Smolina)
• Barber - two movements from Souvenirs (Mogilevsky & Smolina)

Maxim Mogilevsky and Svetlana Smolina

Assistant Professor of Piano at Bowling Green State University, Maxim Mogilevsky was the last pupil of Anaida Sumbatian, who taught the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazy. Mogilevsky made his debut at the age of 13 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Dimity Kitaenko, then studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the tutelage of Lev Naumoff, where he earned a master’s and postgraduate assistantship diploma. Recipient of the 1990 Tchaikovsky Scholarship for studies at Juilliard with Bella Davidovich, Mogilevsky holds a master’s from Indiana University at South Bend, where he studied with Alexander Toradze. Prizes include winning the 1989 International Music Competition, 1992 Unisa Piano Competition, and the 1995 International Piano Competition of Opporto as well as the Angel Awards at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival. Mogilevsky has appeared as a soloist with the Tokyo Metropolitan, New Japan, Belgium TV, St. Petersburg Chamber, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Indiana University Symphony orchestras, and has performed recitals at the Festival Ile-de-France, Festival de Wallonie, Festival van Antwerpen, Festival de Valencia, Sydney Festival, Palais-des-Beaux arts in Brussels, Diligentsia in The Hague and Yokohama Piano Festival in Japan. Mogilevsky has performed throughout the United States as well as in Chile, Europe, Japan, South Korea and Russia. He has given master classes at Rutgers and the Brussels Royal Conservatory. He has also been heard on National Public Radio’s "Performance Today". As duo pianist with his wife, Svetlana Smolina, the Mogilevsky/Smolina Duo won the 2001 Murray Dranoff Grand Prize at the 8th International Murray Dranoff Duo Piano Competition in Miami. This coming season, Mogilevsky will appear on the Frick Collections recital series and at Merkin Hall, the Philips Gergiev Rotterdam Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Art series, the Los Angeles Concert Guild series, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Berlin Philharmonic Festival and the Ozawa Festival in Japan, as well as recitals in Boston and Washington, D.C.