"Capture the Moment" photo by Kobi Refaeli
A program of newly-written piano compositions inspired by soccer. Commissions supported in part by New Music USA. Featuring music for piano, voice, cleats, and electronics by Christopher Cerrone, Ian Dicke, Oliver Dubon, Tom Flaherty, Dana Kaufman, Harold Meltzer, David Sanford, Adam Schoenberg, Evan Ware & Pamela Z.
Listen to Nadia Shpachenko perform “Speck Pond Rag” by Lewis Spratlan. "Six Rags" painting by Yuri Nagulko
Music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lewis Spratlan (1940-2023), written for pianist Nadia Shpachenko and featured on Shpachenko's CD "Invasion: Music and Art for Ukraine." Most solo pieces were written in 2021-2022.
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform selections from her CD “The Poetry of Places”
This program is performed in two versions: a recital featuring new piano (and toy piano) works inspired by diverse buildings, all written for Nadia Shpachenko’s project, or the mixed periods program featuring 19th, 20th, and 21st century compositions inspired by architecture. 21st-century works on this program are featured on Shpachenko’s GRAMMY® Award-winning Reference Recordings release.
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform “The Fountain of Bakhchisaray” by Anton Arensky
A recital featuring 19th, 20th, and 21st century compositions inspired by architecture. 21st century works on this program are featured on Shpachenko’s GRAMMY® Award-winning 2019 Reference Recordings release.
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform selections from her CD “Quotations and Homages”
A recital featuring newly-written works inspired by a variety of earlier composers and pieces, from Mozart to Chopin to Brahms to Stravinsky to Messiaen to Carter to Ustvolskaya to The Velvet Underground. In a program both serious and lighthearted, older works are brought to new light through piano/s, toy pianos, electronics and multimedia by contemporary composers Daniel Felsenfeld, Tom Flaherty, Vera Ivanova, James Matheson, Missy Mazzoli, Nick Norton, Isaac Schankler, Peter Yates, and Adam Borecki. Most works on this program are featured on Shpachenko’s 2018 Reference Recordings release "Quotations and Homages."
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform "Debutie" by Vera Ivanova
A piano recital featuring newly-written homages by Tom Flaherty, Vera Ivanova, Missy Mazzoli, Isaac Schankler, and Peter Yates, performed together with the earlier works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Satie and Stranisky that directly inspired the new compositions. Most contemporary works on this program are featured on Shpachenko’s April 2018 Reference Recordings release "Quotations and Homages."
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform selections from her CD "Woman at the New Piano"
A recital of new works for piano, toy piano, percussion, and electronics from Shpachenko’s multiple GRAMMY® nominated album.
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform “Miró's World” by Adam Schoenberg
New and older works written 100 years and 6000 miles apart. 1913 and 2013 piano and toy piano compositions by Tom Flaherty, James Matheson, Sergei Prokofiev, Adam Schoenberg, Alexander Scriabin, and Peter Yates.
Watch Martin Chalifour and Nadia Shpachenko perform Sonata in G Major, Op. 96 by L. v. Beethoven
Violin and Piano programs performed with Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour and guests.