Dances for Freedom

Venue
Cal Poly Pomona Music Recital Hall
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA
91768
Details
April 12, 2023 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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Nadia Shpachenko, piano
Iris Shiotsuki, piano
Pat Posey, tubax (a modified contrabass saxophone developed in 1999 by Benedikt Eppelsheim)

Performing works by J. S. Bach, Paul Bonneau, Cécile Chaminade, Ignaz Friedman, Philip Glass, Scott Joplin, Lewis Spratlan, Evgeni Orkin, Astor Piazzolla, Myroslav Skoryk, Dana Kaufman, and Shelley Washington

Dances for Freedom

Cécile Chaminade Autrefois, Op. 87 No. 4
Ignaz Friedman Tabatière à musique, Op. 33 No. 3

Iris Shiotsuki, piano

Myroslav Skoryk Melody for solo piano (1982)
Scott Joplin Two Rags for solo piano (1899-1901)
Lewis Spratlan Selections from Six Rags for solo piano (2018)
Evgeni Orkin Selections from Mosaics for piano solo (2002), preview before World Premiere

Nadia Shpachenko, piano

Intermission

Philip Glass No. 12 from Melodies for Saxophone (1995)
Johann Sebastian Bach Courante from Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 (1717-23)
Paul Bonneau Caprice en forme de valse (1950)
Shelley Washington Finale from Mo'ingus (2016) 

Pat Posey, tubax

Astor Piazzolla (arr. Niklas Sivelöv, Øystein Baadsvik, and Pat Posey)
Three Tangos (1959-1970)

Pat Posey, tubax and Nadia Shpachenko, piano

Dana Kaufman Honeyball for speaking pianist and soccer cleats (2021/2023)

Nadia Shpachenko, piano, voice, cleats