Sample Programs
21st Century Program Overview
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform selections from her CD “The Poetry of Places”
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.
19th Century Video Sample
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform Anton Arensky’s “The Fountain of Bakhchisaray”
The Poetry of Places
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.
21st Century Program Overview
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform selections from her CD “Quotations and Homages”
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".
Nadia Shpachenko - "Quotations and Homages" Trailer
World Premieres album
Quotations and Homages
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.
21st Century Program Overview
Watch Nadia Shpachenko perform selections from her CD "Woman at the New Piano"
Music for a New B’ak’tun
A recital of new works for piano, toy piano, percussion, and electronics from Shpachenko’s multiple GRAMMY® nominated album
