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.
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.
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
Performances by Nadia Shpachenko and 15 Cal Poly Pomona piano students, featuring works by Ukrainian and American composers
With artists Iris Shiotsuki, Andy Langham, Tom Luer, and Mamoji Trio
Premieres by Zoltan Almashi, Eugene Astapov, Evgeni Orkin, and Madelyne Byrne.
Performances by Nadia Shpachenko and the Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble, featuring works by Ukrainian and American composers, with guest artist Iris Shiotsuki.
Works by Zoltan Almashi, Eugene Astapov, Evgeni Orkin, Mykola Lysenko, Madelyne Byrne, Samara Rice, and Lewis Spratlan.
Solo Performance as part of a 90 minute program honoring the legendary pianist and teacher Jerome Lowenthal. Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA, 7 pm, sold out. I will perform the World Premiere of Dribble by Harold Meltzer and selections from Six Rags by Lewis Spratlan.
