Alexander Toradze was best known for his interpretations of piano repertory by Russian composers, most notably Prokofiev. Toradze performed concerts throughout Europe, the Americas, Japan, and more remote parts of the globe and often participated in seven- or eight-hour marathon concerts with his students. In 1986, his first major recording was issued on EMI. He taught at Indiana University, South Bend, from 1991 until 2017. In 1998, Toradze's acclaimed set of the Prokofiev concertos, with Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra, was issued. His performance of the popular Third Concerto from that cycle was chosen from among 70 others as the finest recording of the work ever by the prestigious International Piano Quarterly. Toradze died in South Bend on May 10, 2022.