Cover: 100 Years and 6000 Miles
"Olive Orchard" painting by Vincent van Gogh

100 Years and 6000 Miles


New and older works written 100 years and 6000 miles apart.

100 Years and 6000 Miles

1913 and 2013 piano and toy piano compositions by Tom Flaherty, James Matheson, Sergei Prokofiev, Adam Schoenberg, Alexander Scriabin, and Peter Yates

All 2013 works are featured on Shpachenko’s multiple GRAMMY® nominated album Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013

Program

Sergei Prokofiev Selections from 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 12 (1913)

Tom Flaherty Part Suite-a for solo piano (2013)

Adam Schoenberg Picture Etudes for solo piano (2013)

Alexander Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass” (1913)

Peter Yates Finger Songs for solo piano (2013)

James Matheson Cretic Variations for solo piano (2013)

Tom Flaherty Airdancing for toy piano, piano, and electronics (2013)  with Genevieve Feiwen Lee, pre-recorded toy piano

Nadia Shpachenko performs "Olive Orchard" by Adam Schoenberg (live)
Photo by Martin Chalifour and Barry Werger-Gottesman