ThurSDAY, November 16 4:00 PM PT | 7:00 PM ET | 1:00 CET (17th)
Photo: Anoush Abrar
Steinway Spiriocast
NICOLAS NAMORADZE
From The Honens Bella Concert Hall
ThurSDAY, November 16
4:00 PM PT | 7:00 PM ET | 1:00 CET (17th)
Pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze performs from Bella Concert Hall in Calgary, home of the renowned Honens International Piano Competition. Namoradze, the 2018 Honens Laureate, performs a Rachmaninoff program celebrating the 150th Anniversary, also featuring works on his new Steinway label release, Rachmaninoff, Refracted.
PROGRAM
Bach:
Violin Partita No. 3: Gavotte en rondeau, arr. Rachmaninoff
RachmaninoFF:
Vocalise
Symphony No. 2: Adagio, arr. Namoradze
Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
Program approximately 60 minutes.
Pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze, whose performances have been hailed as “sparkling…sensitive and coloristic” (The New York Times) and “simply gorgeous” (Wall Street Journal), came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary AB Canada—among the largest prizes in classical music. His often sold-out recitals around the globe have been met with universal critical praise, and recent album releases have received extraordinary accolades, including: the Choc de Classica, Record of the Month in Limelight, Instrumental Disc of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, Editor’s Choice in Presto Classical, and Critics’ Choice in International Piano, as well as a first-place debut in the UK charts for classical instrumental albums.
Among the most critically acclaimed musicians of his generation, Namoradze was bestowed the 2020 & 2021 Young Pianist Award by the UK Critics’ Circle, which called him “very much more than a top-flight pianist.” A Gramophone “One to Watch” and BBC Music Magazine “Rising Star,” Namoradze was also named among WQXR’s “20 for 20,” a list that “includes long-time heroes, established favorites and newcomers set for stardom who are redefining what classical music can be.” Recent critical highlights include rare five-star reviews in The Telegraph and The Guardian, which called his performance at Royal Festival Hall “ideally laconic and debonair, weighty yet exquisite, and exactingly precise in tone and touch.” A January 2022 cover feature in International Piano declared Namoradze’s Wigmore Hall debut “astonishing,” concluding that, “with so many talents and interests it is impossible to predict what this young man will go on to do: all we can be sure of is that it will be both original and unexpected.”
How to Join
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