Solo and Chamber Recital on San Bernardino Symphony series
I am so immensely excited to collaborate with the amazing conductor and bassoonist Anthony Parnther, mandolinist Joti Rockwell, and principal players of San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra on this very important concert.
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Program Description
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.
Dances for Freedom
Myroslav Skoryk
Melody for solo piano (1982)
Dana Kaufman
Honeyball for speaking pianist and soccer cleats (2021/2023), World Premiere of revised version, 2023
An Ungraceful Jog Trot
Change is Slow
Coquetry and Cleats
Astor Piazzolla (arr. Niklas Sivelöv and Øystein Baadsvik)
Three Tangos (1959-1970) for bassoon and piano
Milonga del Angel
Invierno Porteño
Adiós Nonino
with Anthony Parnther, bassoon
Intermission
Scott Joplin
Two Rags for solo piano (1899-1901)
Maple Leaf Rag
The Easy Winners Rag
Evgeni Orkin
Selections from Mosaics for piano solo (2002), World Premiere
Ragtime
Lewis Spratlan
Selections from Six Rags for solo
piano (2018)
Speck Pond Rag
Pelham Lake Rag
Chesterfield Gorge Rag
Lewis Spratlan
Invasion for piano, alto saxophone, horn, trombone, percussion, and mandolin (2022), with principal San Bernardino Symphony players, conducted by Anthony Parnther