Archive for WomanAtTheNewPiano
The Absolute Sound Features Woman At The New Piano
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…
Nadia Shpachenko Wins Global Music Award
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…
Nadia Shpachenko and Jan Kraybill Thursday Videos
Nadia Shpachenko Performing George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening Buy Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano Read the latest Woman at the New Piano review! Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony Test the Casavant Organ Get Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony recording today! Hear Jan Kraybill and the Casavant Organ in full splendour in Organ Polychrome!
Woman at the New Piano a “New Favorite”
Critic Don Clark has “a new favorite” in Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano recording: “Woman at the New Piano is an album with a surely cosmic purpose… this prodigiously talented, California-based pianist and teacher, has recorded a delightful and diverse program of brand new works she commissioned in 2013 from four outstanding composers, Tom Flaherty, Peter Yates, Adam Schoenberg and James Matheson. … Shpachenko makes a most convincing case for [Adam Schoenberg’s “Picture…
Nadia Shpachenko at Bargemusic this weekend!
On Friday, June 12th at 8 pm at Bargemusic, Brooklyn, pianist Nadia Shpachenko will perform “Music for a New B’ak’tun,” a program of new works, all New York Premieres, for solo piano (with toy piano and electronics) by American composers James Matheson, Adam Schoenberg, Tom Flaherty, and Peter Yates. The compositions are presented on her new album “Woman at the New Piano” released on Fresh! from Reference Recordings (FR-711). Bargemusic Here and Now Series June…
Download a track from Woman at the new Piano!
Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano gets a great feature in I Care If You Listen‘s “Spring 2015 Mixtape”! Click the image to download! Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 Nadia Shpachenko World Premiere recordings of new works for piano, chamber instruments and electronics from 4 notable modern composers. Featuring Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman: piano, percussion; with Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics The new works were composed as a celebration of…
MusicWeb International Praises Woman At the New Piano
Brian Reinhart of MusicWeb International takes a listen through the new Nadia Shpachenko Woman at the New Piano recording and finds a real downside: “If there’s a downside to this release, it’s that we might start expecting a new one every year. Nadia Shpachenko has done heroic work here, and the composers provide stimulating listening. I will be returning with special interest to the works by Matheson and Schoenberg. Adam Schoenberg has an orchestral recording…
New Classic LA Features Nadia Shpachenko Woman At The New Piano
New Classic LA‘s Paul Muller has a new feature for Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman At The New Piano: “Airdancing is an appealing combination of the traditional piano sounds and electronic percussion. The lightness in the rhythms and timbre of the electronics are nicely contrasted with the lower, more ominous sections in an interesting mix. … Part Suite-a for Solo Piano is a technically challenging piece that is precisely realized here. … Finger Songs for Solo Piano…
Textura Magazine Reviews Woman At The New Piano
Textura Magazine reviews the new Nadia Shpachenko release, Woman at the New Piano in their February issue: “An exceptional recording of newly composed piano works… Shpachenko is that special musician who possesses the ability to execute technically challenging contemporary works but also bring out the emotional dimension of the material. … Given the involvement of multiple composers, Woman At The New Piano is naturally diverse, yet it’s cohesive, too. Though dramatic stylistic contrasts between works…
See Nadia Shpachenko and Woman at the New Piano Live
Nadia Shpachenko will be performing compositions from her Woman at the New Piano recording in a series of upcoming solo concerts: Fresno State University, CA, Fresno, 1/21/15, 8 pm (Fresno New Music Series) Valley Christian High School, CA, San Jose, 1/23/15, 1 pm California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 1/28/15, 8 pm California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, 2/2/15, 7:30 pm Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, 2/4/15, 4:15 pm Biola University, CA, La…
Amazon Reviewers Praise Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano
Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano American Music of 2013 gets Five Stars across the board from Amazon critics: “This is a beautiful and exciting album, with pieces that represent the wide range of contemporary classical piano repertoire. The pieces range from thoughtful to silly-grin-inducing to chaotic, thunderous, and dramatic. I can picture a number of these pieces becoming part of the standard repertoire. The performance is beautiful, and at times seemingly impossible –…
Weekend News Bits — Joel Fan, Robert Moore, Nadia Shpachenko
Kick off your weekend with these news bits from our recent releases: Joel Fan: Dances For Piano and Orchestra WFMT’s Lisa Flynn Features Dances for Piano And Orchestra: By far the most familiar genre of music for piano and orchestra is the piano concerto. What the seven works gathered on this new CD demonstrate is that the formal concerto is by no means the only way of treating the instrumental combination. Joel Fan, recognized for…
Nadia Shpachenko performs Adam Schoenberg’s Miró’s World
Nadia Shpachenko performs Adam Schoenberg’s “Miró’s World” from “Picture Etudes for Solo Piano” Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 Nadia Shpachenko World Premiere recordings of new works for piano, chamber instruments and electronics from 4 notable modern composers. Featuring Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman: piano, percussion; with Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics The new works were composed as a celebration of a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the…
Now Available — Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013!
Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 Nadia Shpachenko World Premiere recordings of new works for piano, chamber instruments and electronics from 4 notable modern composers. Featuring Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman: piano, percussion; with Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics 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…
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