"Unbreakable Spirit: Music of Resilience" at UNC Chapel Hill
Venue
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Department of Music CB# 3320; 105 Hill Hall 145 E Cameron Ave.
Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3320
About
UNC Chapel Hill Music Department presents
Unbreakable Spirit: Music of Resilience
GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko will perform beloved works by Frédéric Chopin paired with Chopin-inspired pieces by Ukrainian composers. The program will also include East Coast premieres of new compositions by Ludmila Yurina and Ethan Gans-Morse about the war in Ukraine, Nadia’s home country.
Program
Myroslav Skoryk (1938-2020)
Melody (1982)
Ludmila Yurina (b. 1962)
Cuando
la sirena se calma… (When the siren goes silent) (2024)
East Coast Premiere
Ethan Gans-Morse (b. 1982)
Bomb Shelter Variations based on Ukrainian song Ніч Яка Місячна (What a Moonlit Night) as
performed by Vira Lytovchenko (2024)
East Coast Premiere
Sergii Leontiev (b. 1991)
Postlude (2020) East Coast Premiere
Zoltan Almashi (b. 1975)
Arfaria (2023) East Coast Premiere
Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
Impromptu in the Style of Chopin, Op. 38 (1900)
Yuri Ishchenko (1938-2021)
Waltz No. 3 from Four Waltzes and
Just a Touch of Chopin (2007)
East Coast Premiere
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 (1836)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35, No. 2 (1840)
I. Grave – Doppio movimento
II. Scherzo
III. Marche funèbre: Lento
IV. Finale: Presto