Previous events

Performances by 15 Cal Poly Pomona students and alumni, as well as Dr. Nadia Shpachenko, Dr. Iris Shiotsuki, and Dr. Ryan Shiotsuki.

Featuring works for solo piano and multiple pianos (with violin, marimba, vibraphone, and electronics) by composers Zoltan Almashi, Nimrod Borenstein, Madelyn Byrne, Carlos Guastavino, Dana Kaufman, Franz Liszt, Evgeni Orkin, Samara Rice, Evan Ware, and Jack Van Zandt.

Piano Master Class for Music Teachers Association of California

This piano recital will feature the world premiere of the new piece Arfaria (just finished this week) by Ukrainian composer Zoltan Almashi, pieces about Ukraine, dances including tangos, waltzes, and rags, and pieces about soccer. Composers include Myroslav Skoryk, Eloisa D'Herbil de Silva, Astor Piazzolla, Yuri Ishchenko, Gregory Brown, Scott Joplin, Scott Wheeler, Evgeni Orkin, Paul Chihara, Lewis Spratlan, Zoltan Almashi, Christopher Cerrone, Harold Meltzer, and Tom Flaherty.

A 60 Minute Recital featuring selections from my soccer-inspired program of commissioned piano pieces. Also, a speaker on a panel with composer Alex Temple and a performer with composer Olivia Kiefer. Three total presentations.

Recitals and Panel Dates and Times TBA. New Music Gathering Conference is on June 22, 23, and 24, 2023 at Portland State University.

I will be flying to Massachusetts in early May to perform Lewis Spratlan's 6 Rags at Lew's Memorial Service at Amherst College and to pay respect and say goodbye to my dear friend and close collaborator.

Dr. Nadia Shpachenko, director

Performances by Nadia Shpachenko and 16 piano students, featuring works by Ukrainian and American composers

Performance of Armando Bayolo's Childhood: Seven Scenes after Robert Schumann for piano four-hands with my piano student Michael Jung for his last Doctoral recital at Claremont Graduate University. 

Dr. Nadia Shpachenko, director

Performances by Nadia Shpachenko and 16 piano students, featuring works by Ukrainian and American composers

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko's performance showcases a hugely dramatic range delivered with remarkably expressive precision. Nadia curates a program featuring transformative dances, including rags and tangos, as well as pieces connected to the war in Ukraine. She will perform solo piano works by Scott Joplin, Dana Kaufman (a world premiere), Evgeni Orkin (a world premiere), Myroslav Skoryk, and Lewis Spratlan, a duet by Astor Piazzolla (3 Tangos), performed with SBSO conductor Anthony Parnther on bassoon, and a stunning new chamber work Invasion by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Lewis Spratlan, for solo piano and SBSO's principal players, conducted by Anthony Parnther.

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