March 14, 2025
7:30 p.m.
1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, Kansas 66205

Experience the exceptional musicality of violinist David Radzynski, former concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra, and ICM director of collaboration pianist-virtuoso Lolita Sayevich. David’s illustrious journey from ICM to leading roles with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, and now to concert violinist, when combined with the virtuosity of pianist Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich (ICM Director of Collaborative Piano), results in a recital that showcases the height of instrumental mastery.

David Radzynski

David Radzynski served as concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra from 2022-2024 after eight years serving as concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO). David enjoys collaborating regularly with major conductors and soloists in solo, chamber music, and orchestral settings.

Some of his memorable performances as soloist include concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, Zubin Mehta and the IPO at the Musikverein in Vienna, with the Łódź Philharmonic in Poland, the Polish National Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony, and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poznan where he premiered the double concerto composed by his father Jan Radzynski.

An avid chamber musician, David has performed with Emanuel Ax, Pinchas Zukerman and Martha Argerich, among others. He has also performed as guest concertmaster with the Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras. 

David holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, a master’s degree from Yale, and artist certificate from the International Center for Music at Park University. His violin teachers include Roland and Almita Vamos, Paul Kantor, Mauricio Fuks and Kevork Mardirossian at Indiana University, Syoko Aki at the Yale School of Music, and Ben Sayevich at the International Center for Music at Park University.

Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich

Born into a Tashkent (Uzbekistan) musical family, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich began studying piano at the age of 4. In 1985 she entered the Uspensky Central Music School in Tashkent. In 1993 she started attending a private school for young musicians in Moscow, and that same year received the first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Göttingen, Germany. She entered the Tchaikovsky Special Music School in 1995, and two years later was accepted to the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Vera Gornostaeva, with whom she continued postgraduate study from 2002 to 2004. Lisovskaya-Sayevich also studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University.

In 1996 Lisovskaya-Sayevich received the first prize from the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition, and in 2007 the first prize at the Iowa Piano International Competition. She was awarded scholarships from the Rostropovich Foundation, the Spivakov Foundation and the Nikolai Petrov Foundation. She has also earned the laureate designation from the international program “New Names,” and the festival “Virtuoso 2000” in St. Petersburg, Russia. Lisovskaya-Sayevich has recorded at the Hessen Radio Station in Frankfurt, Germany, and at Orfei Radio in Moscow.

Lisovskaya-Sayevich has presented numerous solo recitals and has played as a soloist with orchestras in Austria, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Russia. She has participated in many music festivals, including the Bashmet Festival in Tours, France, “Wave 2000” in Japan, International Musical Arts Institute in Maine (USA), Killington Music Festival in Vermont (USA), “Ars Longa” and “Primavera Classica” in Moscow. She collaborated with such renowned musicians as Daniel Muller-Shott, Shmuel Ashkenazy, members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and many others. She now performs extensively in chamber music ensembles.