2016 Grammy Nominee! New Title in Fresh Series on HDCD!
SAN FRANCISCO - The new works were composed as a celebration of a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan Calendar- inspired by the happy fact that the world did NOT end on December 21, 2012 at the end of the previous Mayan Calendar cycle! All the pieces touch on themes of transformation, of resonances across time, of cycles of rebirth.
Pianist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman is currently Associate Professor of Music, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She has performed extensively in solo recitals and with orchestras in major venues across North America, Europe and Asia. She recently toured Mexico with Orquesta de Baja California, performed with the Kharkov Philharmonic, the Ukrainian National Symphony and the Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestras in Ukraine and the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra in California. As a young pianist, Nadia won top prizes in numerous competitions, including the Wideman International Piano Competition, Grace Welsh International Piano Competition, California International Young Artists Piano Competition, Corpus Christi International Piano Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, MTNA Collegiate Piano Competition, SouthEast Symphony Concerto Competition, and the USC Piano Concerto Competition. In 2003 Nadia had her New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall, as the winner of Artists International Special Presentation Award.
This album is produced by six-time GRAMMY nominees Marina and Victor Ledin, engineered and edited by the uncompromising and innovative engineer, Barry Werger-Gottesman. Recorded at Pomona College, Claremont, California, July 11-14, 2013.
FRESH! is part of Reference RecordingsÂ’ mission to encourage new artists and give them a strong platform for promotion and sales nationally and internationally.
Features:
• HDCD
Musicians:
Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman, piano, percussion
Genevieve Feiwen Lee, piano, toy piano, electronics
On "Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano, and Electronics": "The sonority ranges from eerie, gossamer-like beauty to mechanical ravings, sometimes evoking an Indonesian gamelan." - Andrew Quint, The Absolute Sound, 4.5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics
Selections:
Tom Flaherty
1. Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano, and Electronics
Peter Yates
Finger Songs for Solo Piano
2. Mood Swing
3. Gambol
4. Mysterious Dawn
5. Brave Show
6. All Better
Adam Schoenberg
Picture Etudes for Solo Piano
7. Three Pierrots
8. Miro's World
9. Olive Orchard
10. Kandinsky
Tom Flaherty
Part Suite-a for Solo Piano
11. Passacaglialude
12. Lullabande
13. Scherzoid
James Matheson
14. Cretic Variations for Solo Piano
Adam Schoenberg
15. Bounce for Two Pianos
SAN FRANCISCO - The new works were composed as a celebration of a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan Calendar- inspired by the happy fact that the world did NOT end on December 21, 2012 at the end of the previous Mayan Calendar cycle! All the pieces touch on themes of transformation, of resonances across time, of cycles of rebirth.
Pianist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman is currently Associate Professor of Music, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She has performed extensively in solo recitals and with orchestras in major venues across North America, Europe and Asia. She recently toured Mexico with Orquesta de Baja California, performed with the Kharkov Philharmonic, the Ukrainian National Symphony and the Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestras in Ukraine and the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra in California. As a young pianist, Nadia won top prizes in numerous competitions, including the Wideman International Piano Competition, Grace Welsh International Piano Competition, California International Young Artists Piano Competition, Corpus Christi International Piano Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, MTNA Collegiate Piano Competition, SouthEast Symphony Concerto Competition, and the USC Piano Concerto Competition. In 2003 Nadia had her New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall, as the winner of Artists International Special Presentation Award.
This album is produced by six-time GRAMMY nominees Marina and Victor Ledin, engineered and edited by the uncompromising and innovative engineer, Barry Werger-Gottesman. Recorded at Pomona College, Claremont, California, July 11-14, 2013.
FRESH! is part of Reference RecordingsÂ’ mission to encourage new artists and give them a strong platform for promotion and sales nationally and internationally.
Features:
• HDCD
Musicians:
Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman, piano, percussion
Genevieve Feiwen Lee, piano, toy piano, electronics
On "Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano, and Electronics": "The sonority ranges from eerie, gossamer-like beauty to mechanical ravings, sometimes evoking an Indonesian gamelan." - Andrew Quint, The Absolute Sound, 4.5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics
Selections:
Tom Flaherty
1. Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano, and Electronics
Peter Yates
Finger Songs for Solo Piano
2. Mood Swing
3. Gambol
4. Mysterious Dawn
5. Brave Show
6. All Better
Adam Schoenberg
Picture Etudes for Solo Piano
7. Three Pierrots
8. Miro's World
9. Olive Orchard
10. Kandinsky
Tom Flaherty
Part Suite-a for Solo Piano
11. Passacaglialude
12. Lullabande
13. Scherzoid
James Matheson
14. Cretic Variations for Solo Piano
Adam Schoenberg
15. Bounce for Two Pianos
