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o o o ';' '~~ ,:1 t. ~ " ~ j-' j HOWARD .. MILLER COMMUNICATIONS Contact: Howard Miller (305) 573-0882 For Immediate Release February 28, 2009 Sunny Isles Beach Presents a Special Classical Music Piano Concert Featuring Acclaimed Russian Pianists Maxim Mogllevsky & Svetlana Smollna - March 1 Sh. 2009 at the Sunny Is/es Beach Government Center _ (February 28, 2009), Sunny Isles Beach, FL- The City of Sunny Isles Beach - Florida's Riviera, will be presenting a special classical music piano concert featuring internationally acclaimed Russian pianists Maxim Mogilevsky and Svetlana Smolina on Wednesday, March 18th at 7:30 p.m. at the David P. Samson Commission Chambers located in the Sunny Isles Beach Government Center at 18070 Collins Avenue. The concert promises to be an unforgettable one, with performances by the renowned Maxim Mogilevsky and Svetlana Smolina. Maxim Mogilevsky debuted at the age of 13 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Dimitry Kitaenko, and has established himself as a profound and virtuosic performer firmly in the great Russian piano tradition, He has studied under and performed with some of the most legendary names in music, including Bella Davidovich, Martha Argerich, Alexander Toradze, Dmitri Kitaenko, and most recently conductor Valery Gergiev, with whom Mr, Mogilevsky made his Carnegie Hall debut (as soloist with the Kirov Orchestra) in December of 2007. Svet/ana Smolina is a native of Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, and began her keyboard studies with Natalia Fish at the Balakirev Music College, By the time she graduated in 1995, Ms. Smolina had already won several national and international piano competitions, performed concertos with the Nizhny Novgorod Symphony, partiCipated at the Sakharov International Music Festival, given recitals in Italy, Japan and Denmark and was the recipient of the New Names scholarship project. Following her acclaimed surprise appearance at the White Nights Festival in June 1995, she was invited to study with famed pianist Alexander Toradze at his South Bend piano studio at Indiana University . In addition to their solo accomplishments, Svetlana Smolina and Maxim Mogilevsky are winners of the prestigious Murray Dranoff International Duo Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. They also received two special prizes: the Audience Favorite Prize and the Casadesus Prize for the best interpretation of the Casadesus Duo Piano Concerto, The prize also included an appearance with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, recitals at the University of Miami and numerous engagements in Europe and the United States. - More -