Elisabeth Pridonoff

Elisabeth Pridonoff has appeared with orchestras and on recital series throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia and has performed and taught at music festivals throughout the world including the Amalfi, Prague, Barcelona, Belgium, Chautauqua, and InterHarmony. She is an Emerita Professor of Piano at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, and during the summers is on the faculty of the Brevard Festival. Previously she was co-artistic director of the CCM Prague International Piano Institute with her husband Eugene Pridonoff. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she holds masters degrees in both piano and voice having studied piano with Sasha Gorodnitsky and Adele Marcus, and voice with Hans Heinz and Anna Kaskas.

A prolific performer of chamber music, Elisabeth Pridonoff has collaborated with many outstanding artists including violinists, Ronald Copes, William Fitzpatrick, Masao Kawasaki, Timothy Lees, Steven Moeckel, Tai Murray, Eugen Sarbu, Misha Vitenson, and Paul Wolfe, violists Catharine Carroll, Jessica Bodner and Maggie Snyder, cellists Andrew Cox, Paul Katz, Michael Mermagen, Misha Quint, Jonathan Spitz, Peter Wiley, and Aron Zelkowicz, clarinetist David Shifrin, french hornists Michael Hatfield and William Purvis, oboist Sara Bloom, and bassoonists Otto Eifert and William Winstead among others.

Elisabeth Pridonoff is a Steinway Artist and with her husband pianist Eugene Pridonoff has performed internationally as the Pridonoff Duo.