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Nadia Shpachenko's Lecture-Recital Unorthodox use of piano by 20th Century American Composers |
    
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presents a Lecture-Recital at
Steinway Hall at Field's Piano in Santa Monica, California
Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Unorthodox Use of Piano
by 20th Century American Composers
featuring works by Henry Cowell, John Cage, and George Crumb
Program:
Henry Cowell
The Banshee (for String Piano)
John Cage
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle (for Prepared Piano)
George Crumb
Gnomic Variations (for regular and string piano)
Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 4 pm
Steinway Hall at Field's Pianos
Free Admission
Address: 12121 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064
Directions: From Downtown: 10 West, exit Bundy Drive North (after 405 crossing), at the bottom of ramp turn left on Pico and right (immediately) into the Field's Pianos parking lot.
For more information please check www.ullanta.com/nadia or write to concertinfo@ullanta.com
Nadia Shpachenko biography:
Nadia Shpachenko began studying piano, cello, and composition at the age of five, and by her thirteenth year had won recognition as both pianist and composer, performing with the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra and placing second in the All-Ukrainian Young Composers Competition. Since then she has performed extensively in solo recitals and with orchestras in the United States and Europe. Nadia has been described as "truly inspiring" and "a brilliant pianist on the verge of a wonderful career...spellbinding in sensitivity and mastery of technique." Recently she has given recitals in venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Château de Modave in Belgium, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. On November 15, 2003 Nadia will give her New York Debut Recital at Carnegie Hall as the winner of Artists International Special Presentation Award.
Nadia is currently completing her Doctorate in Musical Arts at the University of Southern California, from which she earned a Master of Music degree in 1999. Her principal teachers have included such distinguished musicians as John Perry in Los Angeles, Victor Rosenbaum in Boston, Victor Derevianko in Israel, and Sima Shwartz in Ukraine.
Nadia has 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. She has participated in the Music Academy of the West, International Holland Music Sessions, Aspen, Cliburn, Manchester, Orford, Sarasota, Tel - Hai, and Saluzzo International Music Festivals and worked with such musicians as Robert Levin, Jerome Lowenthal and Vladimir Viardo. Her performances have been featured on many radio and television stations in California, Massachusetts, New York, Ukraine, the UK, and Italy and released on CDs under the Vitel label in Europe and the Ullanta label in the U.S.