Park University’s International Center for Music to Collaborate with NAVO Arts for 2024-25 Season Opening Concert

August 21, 2024 — Park University’s International Center for Music will kick off its 2024-25 season with a concert in collaboration with Overland Park, Kan., based NAVO Arts on Friday, Sept. 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Folly Theater in Kansas City, Mo.

The concert will feature world-renowned pianist and Park ICM Artist-in-Residence Behzod Abduraimov (left, 2013 Park graduate with an undergraduate certificate in music performance/piano), and Shah Sadikov (right), NAVO Arts founder, chief executive officer and conductor (a 2012 Park graduate with a Bachelor of Music degree), along with the Park ICM Orchestra and NAVO Arts musicians.

The program will include the Kansas City premiere of a reimagined version of “Genius Loci” composed by Ingrid Stölzel, vice president of NAVO Arts and a former director of the Park ICM, as well as Abduraimov performing “Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466” composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In addition, the concert will include “Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25” (Classical Symphony) composed by Sergei Prokofiev and “Variations on a Theme by Haydn” composed by Johannes Brahms.

Tickets for the concert, available through the Folly Theater ticket office, range in price from $26 to $56 (before fees). Students with ID may purchase tickets, pending availability, for $10 beginning one hour before the concert. For more information about this concert, visit the International Center for Music’s website at icm.park.edu/park-icm-presents-alumni-behzod-abduraimov-and-shah-sadikov.

The next performance in the Park ICM 2024-25 season will be a concert by pianist Ilya Shmukler on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan. Shmukler was the winner (along with four additional prizes) of the 2024 Concours Géza Anda Piano Competition in June in Zurich, Switzerland, and a finalist at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.