CPP Piano Ensemble at Palomar College
Venue
1140 West Mission Road
San Marcos, CA
92069
About
GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko and the Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble will perform an eclectic and moving program of works for multiple pianos, toy pianos, percussion, voice, guitar, trumpet, cello, and other instruments. They will perform compositions by J. S. Bach, Tom Flaherty, Aram Khachaturian, Mykola Lysenko, Michael Roth, and two West Coast Premieres by Ukrainian composers Zoltan Almashi and Catherine Likhuta.
Program
Zoltan
Almashi (b. 1975)
Elegy for cello and piano (2018) West Coast Premiere
Mondy
Gottesman, cello, Nadia Shpachenko, piano
Mykola
Lysenko (1842-1912)
Élégie - La
Tristesse for cello and piano (1901)
Mondy
Gottesman, cello, Nadia Shpachenko, piano
J. S. Bach
(1685-1750)
Concerto
for three keyboards in D minor, BWV 1063, 1st movement
(1735-1745)
Marina Zhang, Evan Huang, Katie Bernardoni, pianos
Catherine
Likhuta (1981)
Heirlooms
Suite for piano and percussion (2021) West
Coast Premiere
1. Music
Box: Meinali Xie, piano, Kyra Johnson, marimba
3. Where We
Come From: Caitlin Yang, piano, Kyra Johnson, marimba
2. Jazz
Record: Josiah Kemp, piano, Anai Hernandez, vibraphone, Jesus Aguilera, drums
Composer
Unknown, Dick Dale version
Misirlou from the motion picture Pulp
Fiction, arranged for 5 pianos, melodicas, trumpet, voice, percussion, guitar and bass
guitar by Pianified and the Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble (1994)
Josiah Kemp, Helen Hyo Eun Kim, Abraham Leon,
Luven Mempin, Anjel Perez, Abigail Shoaf, Nadia Shpachenko, Yahir Vallejo, pianos;
Aaliyah Akbar, piano and percussion; Riane Ferras, voice; Anai Hernandez,
Emiliano Gonzalez, and Fernie Portillo, melodicas; Jesse Ortiz, guitar; Aiden
Penry, bass guitar; Evan Huang, trumpet; Meinali Xie, maracas
Tom
Flaherty (b. 1950)
Time’s Up for two pianos, toy piano, and percussion (2018)
Nadia
Shpachenko, Gianni Campos, Josiah Kemp, Evan Huang, Katie Bernardoni, Marina Zhang, pianos; Jesse Ortiz, boom whacker; Fernie Portillo, toy piano; Aaliyah Akbar and Jocelyne
Orendain-Garcia, extended techniques
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Sabre Dance,
arranged
for 5
pianos/10 hands by Jane Tan (1942)
Gianni Campos, Caitlin Yang, Emiliano Gonzales, Josiah Kemp, and Samuel Duong, pianos
Michael
Roth (b. 1954)
Sheetcake (The First Slice) for four pianos, toy
piano, and bass guitar (2024)
Nadia Shpachenko, Katie Bernardoni, Evan Huang,
and Marina
Zhang, pianos; Samuel Duong toy piano; Aiden Penry, bass guitar