Critic Joshua Kosman reviews Nadia Shpachenko’s The Poetry of Places in the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook:

“In ‘The Poetry of Places,’ the gifted and versatile pianist Nadia Shpachenko premieres a remarkable lineup of 10 new works… It’s a winningly loose concept, and the music that results covers a wonderfully diverse stylistic range, from the disruptive shifts of tone in Andrew Norman’s ‘Frank’s House’…to the psychedelic whizzing and swooshing of Lewis Spratlan’s ‘Bangladesh.’ In between come a collection of other delights, including a beautiful porcelain creation by Amy Beth Kirsten involving a toy piano and childlike crooning, and Hannah Lash’s tender ‘Give Me Your Songs’…the thematic consistency turns out to be less interesting than the compositional voices on display, and the technical flair and expressive commitment that Shpachenko brings to all of it.”

—Joshua Kosman

Full review on datebook.sfchronicle.com