Complex sentence: Svetlana immigrated as a political refugee to the USA in 1989 in pursuit of an active performing and teaching career sharing honorable mention at the Seventeenth Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition at Radford University (1997).
Split into simpler sentences: Svetlana immigrated as a political refugee to the USA in 1989 in pursuit of an active performing and teaching career. In 1997 she shared an honorable mention at the Seventeenth Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition at Radford University (1997).