John Wustman: Yelena Kurdina Collection

11 photos of John Wustman, collected by Yelena Kurdina and published in connection with Accompaniment in America: Contextualizing Collaborative Piano (VanderHart et al., 2025)

1. Recital at Merken Hall, New York 2010, John Wustman. Photographer: Yelena Kurdina.
2. Recital at Merken Hall, New York 2010. John Wustman, Sharon Munden. Photographer: Yelena Kurdina.
3. (After the) Recital at Merken Hall, New York 2010. From left: John Wustman, Yelena Kurdina, Susan Ashbaker. Student photographer unknown.
4. (After the) Recital at Merken Hall, New York 2010. Mark Graf, Yelena Kurdina, Unknown, Alan Johnson, Susan Ashbaker, LeAnn Overton, John Wustman, Julie Kuipers.  Student photographer unknown.
5. Smith Music Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. John Wustman in his usual seat, the last one on the right. Photographer unknown.
6. Wustman 70th birthday celebration, University of Illinois. Yelena Kurdina, John Wustman, Susan Ashbaker. Student photographer unknown.
7. Wustman 70th birthday celebration, University of Illinois. Alan Johnson, Yelena Kurdina, Jeanine Wagner, Cynthia Caporella, John Wustman, Susan Ashbaker, Julie Kuipers, Lillian Long. Student photographer unknown.
8. Washington D.C. 1987. Dinner at the Soviet Embassy. George Bush, Raissa Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Elena Obraztsova, John Wustman. (Russian) photographer unknown.
9. Washington D.C. 2002. John Wustman, Elena Obraztsova, Yelena Kurdina, Leyna Gabriele. Gabriele and Wustman were visiting to hear The Queen of Spades. Unnamed friend of Kurdina took the picture.
10. Wustman and Obraztsova in 2001 (!) at the Metropolitan Opera. Final dress rehearsal for Prokofiev's The Gambler. Photographer: Yelena Kurdina.
11. Class of 1982-1983. Taken 1983 in front of the Music Building, Champaign-Urbana. From bottom left: Greg Mason, Susan Ashbaker, Gail Andrews-Hintz, Nancy Johnson, John Sheridan, Alan Johnson, Cynthia Caporella, Mark Graf, Lillian Long, Ward Holmquist, Julie Kuipers, David Sievers, Yelena Kurdina. Student photographer unknown.