Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release The Poetry of Places features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for two pianos, percussion, electronics, voice, and toy piano in a fascinating mélange inspired by great architecture and places. The eight compositions monumentalize places as wildly diverse as the Copland House in Cortlandt, NY, The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Buildings in Bangladesh, Newgrange Ancient Temple in Ireland, and Frank Gehry’s House in…
Nadia Shpachenko joins Classical KING FM’s Dacia Clay on “Second Inversion” to talk about her new Quotations and Homages recording: Shpachenko’s love of playing—both with toys and on her piano, and sometimes, with her toy piano—is part of what makes her new album, “Quotations and Homages,” so much fun to listen to. She’s got this wide-open sense of adventure that comes across not only in her playing, but in the pieces she commissions and the…
I Care If You Listen critic Don Clark is more than convinced by Nadia Shpachenko’s new Quotations and Homages recording: “Nadia Shpachenko‘s new Reference Recordings album Quotations and Homages is a clear winner… Coming on the wings of her Grammy-nominated album Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013, also on Reference Recordings, Quotations and Homages showcases Shpachenko’s prodigious pianism and her ability to conceive and execute innovative and accessible programs. As the title…
Fanfare Magazine‘s Peter Burwasser has a new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording in their July/August 2018 issue: “This highly attractive and frequently delightful CD is a clever concept program.… Shpachenko bookends the collection with the music of Tom Flaherty, in works of very different emotional impact, one serious and the other whimsical, reflecting a similar variety in the balance of the program. His Rainbow Tangle is a rich and colorful reflection of…
Textura Magazine published a rave new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording: “Rare, not to mention refreshing, is the classical recording that balances seriousness with humour. Certainly one composer who embodies the principle is Tom Flaherty, whose two pieces bookend the release. Their origins bespeak a scholarly mind at work, but as homages they’re delightfully irreverent, flamboyant even… As irreverent as it might be to root a composition in material by The Velvet…
New Classic LA critic Steven Niles reviews Nadia Shpachenko’s new Quotations and Homages recording: “In an era marked by emphasis on thematic programming, sometimes it seems the theme counts more than the music, or that the music serves the theme. When all goes well, however, a theme can lend insight and bring pieces together synergistically, where they are better together than apart. The latter is what happens on Nadia Shpachenko‘s new CD, Quotations and Homages.…
Nadia Shpachenko World Premieres Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6 pianists (performed with Ray-Kallay Duo, HOCKET and Genevieve Feiwen Lee) inspired by a variety of earlier composers and works. These fascinating new pieces come from eight notable modern composers: Tom Flaherty, Missy Mazzoli, Vera Ivanova, James…
Fanfare Magazine has a new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording in their “Not To Be Missed” section: “…a superb and superbly recorded program of pieces as fresh as they are ready to pay respect to the traditions that led to their creation. …framing this set of relative miniatures with the works of Tom Flaherty was a stroke of genius. His integration of electronic and acoustic elements speaks to a long-fostered commitment to…
April 4th at Cal Poly Pomona, Nadia Shpachenko performs a solo recital to officially release her new recording, Quotations & Homages! Concert Details on NadiaShpachenko.com Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6 pianists (performed with RayKallay Duo, HOCKET and Genevieve Feiwen Lee) inspired by a variety of earlier composers and works. These fascinating…
Nadia Shpachenko was recently presented with the Provost Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative activities by her university, Cal Poly Pomona, which also produced this wonderful new interview video with her about her recording projects: Nadia Shpachenko World Premieres Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6…
Composer Vera Ivanova introduces her work, 6 Fugitive Memories, written for Nadia Shpachenko, and recorded on the new Quotations and Homages album: “6 Fugitive Memories” were commissioned by and dedicated to the pianist Nadia Shpachenko. These short miniatures represent six dedications to composers who have anniversaries in 2016, the year when Nadia premiered this work. I decided to remove my compositional style and instead recall through quotations and allusions the pieces of composers to whom…
Nadia Shpachenko will follow up her GRAMMY®-nominated Woman at the New Piano with a new release next month, and in the meantime, she is turning heads as part of the “People Inside Electronics” (PIE) series. Listen to her interview on KPFK (starts around the 59′ mark on the Thursday, March 8 Global Village program) See her interview about the PIE series and her upcoming release on NewClassic.LA See her perform a PIE preview at ArtNight…
Adam Schoenberg Recordings The Listeners’ Club has a new review of our first release featuring the music of Adam Schoenberg, Woman At The New Piano by Nadia Shpachenko: “This has to be some of the most playfully exuberant and joyful music ever written. American composer Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980) wrote Bounce in 2013, after learning that he was about to become a father. The piece, which has been described as “Radiohead meets Aaron Copland,” was…
Nadia Schpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano recording gets a 4.5 star review from Andrew Quint of The Absolute Sound: “Reference Recordings garnered seven nominations for the 2016 Grammy Awards, including two for Woman at the New Piano. The disc premieres six works written in 2013 by four composers, three of whom, like Shpachenko, live and work in the Los Angeles environs. … Shpachenko and Lee perform the music with complete authority, and they’re superbly…
The Global Music Awards (GMA) is a top-tier international music competition honoring talented musicians from around the world and we’re excited to share that they have awarded a Gold Medal to Nadia Shpachenko and her Woman at the New Piano recording! About The Global Music Awards We are on a quest to find the world’s best new music and to honor and promote the artists. Global Music Awards is a showcase for original music, unique…