CPP Piano Ensemble at Palomar College

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.

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