"Unbreakable Spirit: Music of Resilience" at Rutgers PianoFest
Venue
Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts 85 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ
08901
About
Rutgers PianoFest presents
Unbreakable Spirit: Music of Resilience
GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko will perform music about the war in Ukraine, Nadia’s home country. This festival celebrates the legendary pianist and teacher John Perry on his 90th Birthday, opening with a recital by John Perry on Feb. 13.
Program
Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
Impromptu in the Style of Chopin, Op. 38 (1900)
Nadia Shpachenko,
piano
Ludmila Yurina (b. 1962)
Cuando
la sirena se calma… (When the siren goes silent) (2024)
New Jersey Premiere
Nadia Shpachenko,
piano
Ethan Gans-Morse (b. 1982)
Bomb Shelter Variations based on Ukrainian song Ніч Яка Місячна (What a Moonlit Night) as
performed by Vira Lytovchenko (2024)
New Jersey Premiere
Nadia Shpachenko,
piano
Jonathan Russell
(b. 1979)
Still
Here
(2022)
I.
Slow and Stately
II. Scherzo
III. Lyrical and flowing
IV. Defiantly
joyful
Jonathan
Russell, B-flat clarinet, Nadia Shpachenko, piano