Here & Now Series: GOAT / Nadia Shpachenko, Cerrone, Pamela Z, Flaherty, Sanford, Meltzer, Dicke, Dubon, Ware, Kaufman, Adam Schoenberg
$35
- Nadia Shpachenko, piano, voice, cleats, & electronics
Pamela Z — Balón (for solo piano, tape, voice, & electronics; New York/East Coast premiere; with Pamela Z, pre-recorded & sampled voice)
Ian Dicke — Telstar Loops (for piano & electronics; New York/East Coast premiere)
Oliver Dubon — The Hand of God (for solo piano; world premiere)
Tom Flaherty — Juego de Fútbol (for piano & electronics; world premiere)
Dana Kaufman — Honeyball (for solo piano, fixed media, soccer cleats, & white gloves; New York/East Coast premiere)
Harold Meltzer — Dribble (for solo piano; world premiere)
David Sanford — La Pulga Variations (for solo piano; New York/East Coast premiere)
Adam Schoenberg — Last Dance (for solo piano; New York/East Coast premiere)
Evan Ware — Skillset (for solo piano; world premiere)
Bargemusic presents GRAMMY Award-winning Ukrainian-American pianist Nadia Shpachenko on Friday, July 22nd at 7pm. On the Here and Now Series, GOAT chronicles the beautiful game. The ballet of the masses. The real university. Soccer! Fútbol! Such a microcosm of the crushing disappointments, the exuberant triumphs, the grueling struggles that make up life. Shpachenko has enlisted ten composers to capture the sounds, rhythms, spirit, and culture of the game for this new program of cutting-edge piano music, supported by New Music USA. Premieres of works by Christopher Cerrone, Pamela Z, Ian Dicke, Oliver Dubon, Tom Flaherty, Harold Meltzer, Dana Kaufman, David Sanford, Adam Schoenberg, and Evan Ware will have you on the edge of your seat laughing, crying, and cheering with all the tensions and intensity of matchday.
About Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”
https://www.bargemusic.org/About Nadia Shpachenko, piano, voice, cleats, & electronics
A "gifted and versatile pianist" (San Francisco Chronicle) and GRAMMY Award-winner Nadia Shpachenko enjoys bringing into the world things that are outside the box—powerful pieces that often possess unusual sonic qualities or instrumentation. Nadia's concert highlights include recitals at Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, on the Piano Spheres, and Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella and Chamber Music Series, and with numerous orchestras in Europe and the Americas. An enthusiastic promoter of contemporary music, Shpachenko premiered more than 100 works by Armando Bayolo, Elliott Carter, Christopher Cerrone, Paul Chihara, George Crumb, Ian Dicke, Daniel Felsenfeld, Tom Flaherty, Annie Gosfield, Yuri Ishchenko, Vera Ivanova, Dana Kaufman, Leon Kirchner, Amy Beth Kirsten, Han Lash, James Matheson, Missy Mazzoli, Harold Meltzer, David Sanford, Isaac Schankler, Alexander Shchetynsky, Adam Schoenberg, Lewis Spratlan, Evan Ware, Gernot Wolfgang, Iannis Xenakis, Peter Yates, Pamela Z, Jack Van Zandt, and many others.
Described as "The outstanding contemporary-music disc of the year" (Fanfare Magazine), Nadia’s 2022 Reference Recordings album Invasion: Music and Art for Ukraine (with 100% of proceeds being donated to Ukraine humanitarian aid) features world premiere recordings of music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lewis Spratlan and art by numerous Ukrainian artists. Nadia’s 2019 Reference Recordings album The Poetry of Places, featuring world premieres of architecture-inspired works, won the Best Classical Compendium GRAMMY Award. She can be heard on seven other internationally released albums of world premieres.
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, she is a Steinway Artist, Schoenhut Toy Piano Artist, and professor of music at Cal Poly Pomona University.
http://nadiashpachenko.com/