The University of Indiana has long been known for its first-rate music school. Now it’s being known for its “piano team. In 1991 pianist Alexander Toradze – the Tbilisi-born, Moscow-trained piano virtuoso – was appointed as professor and began building a studio of young student and professional pianists from all over the world. “The model for his program in Indiana, Toradze explains, was the ‘class recitals’ he heard as a student at a music school for gifted children in his native Tbilisi and later during his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.”