Previous events

Cal Poly Pomona Collaborative Piano Ensemble Concert featuring the World Premiere of Isaac Schankler's Happy Song for Sad Baby (version for 3 toy pianos and electronics), as well as works by J. S. Bach, J. Brahms, A. Dvořák, E. Goossens, M. Kanke, W. A. Mozart, J. Offenbach, C. Saint-Saëns, M. Skoryk, B. Smetana, and others.

Performers include CPP faculty Dr. Nadia Shpachenko, CPP students Katie Bernardoni, Gianni Campos, Emiliano Gonzalez, Catherine Gruen, Sabrina Henderson, Evan Huang, Hyo Eun Kim, Andrew Mazzeo, Jesse Ortiz, Marilyn Ozawa, Anjel Perez, Christian Servin, Abigail Shoaf, Marina Zhang, and John Zhao, and guest artists Ninah Chan, Mondy Gottesman, Nathan Schafer, Aoi Sugiyama, and Sean Yeh.

Judging the 2026 University of Southern California Thornton School of Music Concerto Competition

Judging the Wylld Arts International Music Competition Finals hosted by Casey Abrams. Judging panel includes Pamela Jordan, Marshall Hawkins, John Daversa, Nadia Shpachenko, Grady James, and Danielle Todd

Judging the 2026 Rudolph Polk Memorial Award in Music at the Claremont Colleges.

Cal Poly Pomona Phillip Clarke Memorial Concert featuring works by Frédéric Chopin

With artists Dr. Nadia Shpachenko, Dr. Iris Shiotsuki, guest artist Mondy Gottesman, and Shpachenko's CPP students and alumni Katie Bernardoni, Gianni Campos, Emiliano Gonzalez,  Evan Huang, Sophia Lin, Andrew Mazzeo, Zachary McConnell, Helen Kim, Jesse Ortiz, Yahir Vallejo, and Marina Zhang

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko and her Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble (1st prize winners of the International Ukrainian Music Competition and IAPMT International Competition) will perform music for piano and cello by Ukrainian composers Evgeni Orkin and Myroslav Skoryk and Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, as part of their 2025/2026 East Coast tour that also includes performances at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York and the Longy School of Music in Boston.

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko and her Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble (1st prize winners of the International Ukrainian Music Competition and IAPMT International Competition) will perform music for piano, cello, and percussion by Ukrainian composers Zoltan Almashi and Catherine Likhuta, as part of their 2025/2026 East Coast tour that also includes performances at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York and the Longy School of Music in Boston.

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and Longy School of Music alumna Nadia Shpachenko will perform new compositions by Ludmila Yurina and Ethan Gans-Morse about the war in Ukraine and Chopin-inspired compositions by Ukrainian composers. Composer, clarinetist, bass clarinetist, conductor, teacher and writer Jonathan Russell will join Shpachenko in Russell’s Still Here for clarinet and piano commissioned by a consortium of 52 clarinetists, inspired by the resilience of the Ukrainian people during the current Russian invasion. 1st prize winners of the International Ukrainian Music Competition Mondy Gottesman and the Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble will perform music for piano, cello, and percussion by Ukrainian composers Zoltan Almashi, Catherine Likhuta, and Mykola Lysenko as part of their 2025/2026 East Coast tour that also includes performances at Carnegie Hall and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York.

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko and her Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble (1st prize winners of the International Ukrainian Music Competition and IAPMT International Competition) will perform music for piano, cello, and percussion by Ukrainian composers Zoltan Almashi, Catherine Likhuta, and Mykola Lysenko, and Polish composer Frédéric Chopin as part of their 2025/2026 East Coast tour that also includes performances at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Longy School of Music in Boston.

Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble featuring CPP students, alumni and guest artists

Featuring works by J. S. Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Erroll Garner, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, Maksym Kanke, Catherine Likhuta, Henry Mancini, Anjel Perez, Myroslav Skoryk, Bedřich Smetana, and others performed by CPP students Jesus Aguilera, Katie Bernardoni, Gianni Campos, Sam Duong, Emiliano Gonzalez, Catherine Gruen, Evan Huang, Kyra Johnson, Josiah Kemp, Hyo Eun Kim, Josue-Anthony Lopez, Andrew Mazzeo, Jesse Ortiz, Marilyn Ozawa, Anjel Perez, Christian Servin, Abigail Shoaf, Yahir Vallejo, and Marina Zhang, and alumni and guests Sandra Albizures, Mondy Gottesman, Anai Hernandez, Noel Rauda-Trout, Nathan Schafer, Aoi Sugiyama, Caitlin Yang, and Sean Yeh