BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260527T184552Z UID:b9156c9d-e0f6-4d79-a91f-cd1a5f8e4d22 DTSTART:20260531T210000Z DTEND:20260531T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Asiya Korepanova\, Konstantin Soukhovetski\, Nicolas Namoradze\, and Dan Sato\n\n5 PM Doors & Pre-Recep tion\n6 PM Performances\n7:30 PM Post-Reception\n\n_____\n\n[Gotham Arts]( https://gothamarts.net) is thrilled to host the [Flatiron Festival](https: //www.flatironfestival.com/)\, a chamber music series directed by pianist and composer [Asiya Korepanova](https://www.asiyakorepanova.com/)\, featur ing seven "offerings" between May 31 and June 14\, 2026.\n\n**Flatiron Fes tival**\n**Offering I**\n\n**OPENING GALA**\n**Mine Is Bigger Than Yours** \nA Friendly Battle Of Mad Piano Transcriptions\n\nFeaturing Meistersinger s of Transcription **Konstantin Soukhovetski\, Dan Sato\, Asiya Korepanova \, Nicolas Namoradze**\n\nPerforming their transcriptions of works by Debu ssy\, Richard Strauss\, Ravel\, Tchaikovsky\, Mozart\, and more!\n\nWine w ill be served.\n\n_____\n\n**About the Artists**\n\n[Watch Konstantin perf orm the world premiere of his resplendent solo transcription of the sublim e Trio concluding the final act of Richard Strauss' celebrated opera Der R osenkavalier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8qQs_hTCjc)\n\n**About Kons tantin Soukhovetski**\n\n**Konstantin Soukhovetski** is regarded as an ori ginal creative force among the pianists of his generation\, in a concertiz ing career that has gained him audiences’ tributes and critics’ accola des in the US\, Africa\, Asia\, and Europe. A recipient of over 17 awards and winner of top prizes at the Cleveland\, Naumburg\, and UNISA competiti ons\, Konstantin has made his reputation applying his singular interpretiv e vision and natural virtuosity to the cornerstones of solo and concerto r epertory. Konstantin is internationally renown composer\, counting among h is work critically acclaimed transcription of R. Strauss’ Four Last Song s\, which premiered at L’Esprit du Piano festival in Bordeaux (France) and The Pride Suite for solo piano\, commissioned by the ProtoStar Foundat ion\, with multiple national and international premieres planned in the 20 23/24 Season.\n\nSome highlights of Konstantin’s career include critical ly acclaimed performances at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater\, Pari s’ Musee du Louvre\, Bern’s Paul Klee Zentrum\, Carnegie’s Weill\, a nd Zankel halls. For his debut at Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall\, Konsta ntin was praised on the NYTimes Arts Section cover: “Romanticism so inte nse it warms up Philip Glass.” The Independent gave 5 stars to Konstanti n’s Wigmore Hall London debut\, with a glowing review of Schubert’s la st sonata: “…he let his vision take him where it would\, and the resul t was revelatory\, as was his handling of the sonata’s ambiguous close. ”\n\nThis year\, Konstantin returns to NYC’s Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with Pegasus: The Orchestra\, playing Rachmaninoff’s Concerto #4. Other engagements this season include Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra\, SO LO DUE with Jacopo Giacopuzzi at La Jolla’s The Conrad (CA)\, Vashon Pia noFête (WA)\, and Del Mar International Composer’s Symposium (CA)\, and International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival (CO). In March 2023\, Konst antin premiered his transcription of Pascual Aldave’s Akelarre\, commiss ioned by OE Oficina for his second Spanish concert tour at the Victoria Eu genia Theater in St. Sebastián\, Alkiza and Arrecife\, the Canary Islands . \n2024 will see Konstantin touring Latvia\, Ireland\, and UK with cellis t Max Beitan\, and a month-long tour of Florida in February of 2024\, whi ch will include solo recitals\, lectures\, and performances with orchestra . In addition\, Konstantin will serve on the selection juries of the 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition\, 2023 Nashville International C hopin Competition\, and Odyssiad Competition. \n\nIn 2020\, Konstantin joi ned the adjunct faculty of his alma mater\, The Juilliard School\, where h e received his BM\, MM\, and AD with Jerome Lowenthal. Konstantin has been recently named Director of Pedagogy and Narrative Musicianship at Bronx S chool for Music. Konstantin is deeply committed to musical education\, reg ularly teaching masterclasses\, interactive lecture performances\, and res idency programs with the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras\, the ACES E ducational Center for the Arts (CT)\, and the Grand Piano Series (FL)\, am ong many others. Since 2011\, Konstantin has served as Artist-in-Residency at Pianofest in the Hamptons\, of which he is an alumnus (2000-2007). In 2023/24 Konstantin is giving a 3-day workshop on Narrative Musicianship at International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival\, CO\, a virtual two-week Na rrative Musicianship intensive for tonebase.co among individual lectures a nd masterclasses nationwide. Teaching engagements have taken Konstantin ar ound the world to the Cincinnati College-Conservatory\, The Nanyang Academ y of Fine Arts (Singapore)\, the Shantou Piano Museum (China)\, the New En gland Piano Teachers Association\, and The Piano League\, to name a few. K onstantin has served on the jury panel of the Piano Ohio Competition\, the Hong Kong Music Schools Festival\, the Perfect Tone competition in Indone sia and was on the screening jury of CIPC’s 2020 Virtu(al)oso Internatio nal Piano Competition. \n\nKonstantin’s creativity expands to innovative artistic projects that frequently involve modern dance. In 2022 Konstanti n premiered Encounters\, a commission by MorDance from Polina Nazaykinskay a\, which involved him in the choreography while he was performing on the piano\, the only music for the ballet. In April 2023\, Konstantin premiers Ms. Nazaykinskaya’s new ballet Emily with MorDance. Konstantin and Poli na’s creative alliance has produced a series of piano miniatures\, relea sed during the COVID-19 lockdown on OClassica label\, available on all str eaming platforms. (Remembrance\, Anticipation\, and A Summer Rain)\n\nKons tantin’s solo violin composition\, Postcard from The Edge\, is featured on CDs of renowned violinist Elmira Darvarova. In 2023/24 Konstantin’s o pera transcriptions\, as well as original compositions will be published. 2023 marked a creation of The Pride Suite. Color Orange of The Pride Suite will have a pre-premiere performance as a choreographed art piece at Site Specific Dances’ New York launch of Live Exhibition series in April 202 3. Cleveland Piano has commissioned two works from Konstantin for their Yo ung Artists Competition Gala in 2023. \n\nIn addition to piano performance and composition\, Konstantin’s love for words and languages has taken h im on a foray into literature. He is currently working on two opera libret ti\, commissioned by the Mississippi Opera and the Garth Newel Music Cente r. The latter\, Her New Home is premiering in July 2023. Both are collabor ation with long-standing creative partner\, composer Polina Nazaykinskaya. \n\nKonstantin’s unique creativity and personality have been acknowled ged with a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans and an Innovati on Award from the Music Academy Of The West. \nBorn in Moscow to a family of artists\, Konstantin studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School \, where he double-majored in piano and composition. \n\n**About Dan Sato* *\n\nDescribed by the legendary American virtuoso André Watts as a musici an of “exuberant spontaneity\, deep conviction\, and serious composition al understanding\,” **Dan Sato** has thrived in the deep trenches of the classical music industry à la bioluminescent shrimp. As a pianist\, educ ator and researcher\, he embodies the motto written on his favorite T-shir t\, “88 keys\, 10 fingers — no problem.”\n\nHe has been heard intern ationally through BBC\, WQXR\, CBC\, KHPR and major streaming media platfo rms and featured at music festivals across the U.S.\, including Brevard Mu sic Center\, Chautauqua Music Festival\, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival\, Castleman Quartet Program\, Chamber Music at New Park and Taconic Music’ s Summer Festival. He frequently collaborates with artists of his generati on\, including Rachel Doehring Jackson\, Yeil Park\, Hannah Tarley and Kat herine Suzanne Weber\, and recorded critically acclaimed albums with Diane Hunger (Deviations) and Leah Plave (Impressions: The Rediscovery of Henri ëtte Bosmans). \n\nAppreciated among his colleagues as a human archive of pianistic knowledge and culture\, he is a frequent resource for technical solutions\, programming\, historical recordings and obscure scores. “Dr . Dan” (as students affectionately call him) has coached students and ta ught keyboard literature at Syracuse University and has been a faculty art ist at the Perlman Music Program\, ArtsAhimsa and Notes By The Bay Music F estival. He was most recently the visiting assistant professor of piano at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and is now a lecturer of piano performance at Syracuse University and Hamilton College.\n\nBoth as a perf ormer and arranger\, Sato specializes in solo piano transcriptions. His ad aptation of Ravel’s Introduction et Allegro was published by Muse Press in 2020\, and his output now includes arrangements of works originally by Debussy\, Ravel\, Rachmaninoff\, Szymanowski and Fred Rogers. He also gave the world premiere performance of Vincenzo Maltempo’s tour de force tra nscription of the Second Suite from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé\, which wa s previously considered unplayable due to its extreme virtuosic demands. H is curation of such repertoire resulted in a rare\, all-symphonic piano re cital celebrating orchestral masterworks associated with the Ballets Russe s\, and his recorded performance won him First Prize in the Maurice Ravel Competition Paris 2024. \n\n**About Asiya Korepanova**\n\nAmerica’s only pianist to perform Rachmaninoff’s complete solo piano works\, **Asiya K orepanova** is a pianistic powerhouse\, also widely recognized as a compos er\, visual artist\, and poet. A herald of an enormous repertoire—over 6 0 piano concertos and solo works spanning early Baroque to living composer s—Asiya is a true completist who finds special joy in performing large-s cale cycles such as the 24 Liszt Etudes or Bach’s entire Well-Tempered C lavier. Her emotionally charged\, vividly colored performances have earned her deep audience admiration and many repeat invitations.\n\nA prolific c reator\, Asiya studied composition with Albert Leman\, the Composition Dep artment Chair at the Moscow Conservatory and a student of Dmitry Shostakov ich. She is the author of numerous original works and a remarkable body of piano transcriptions\, including Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben\, Ra chmaninoff’s Cello Sonata\, Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death\, T chaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony\, and many others. In 2025\, Deutsche Gram mophon commissioned her to create a transcription of the 18th variation of Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody for Lang Lang\, who recorded it for hi s album Piano Book 2. She also crafts original multimedia projects—mergi ng her poetry\, artwork\, and music—for works by Liszt\, Bach\, Tchaikov sky\, and Mussorgsky.\n\nBorn to a musical family in Russia\, Asiya made h er orchestral debut at nine with Mozart’s Concerto No. 8\, performing he r own cadenza\, and gave a full solo recital the same year. Since immigrat ing to the U.S. in 2012\, she has garnered national attention with appeara nces at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium\, the Phillips Collection\, New port Classical Festival\, the International Miami Piano Festival\, and man y others. Her performances have been featured on CNN\, NPR affiliates\, WF MT\, and WETA.\n\nIn the 2025–26 season\, Asiya debuts at the Tippet Ris e concert series and premieres her beloved Amy Beach Piano Concerto in Sou th America\, making her debut with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. She also appears for the first time with the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile\ , the Alabama Symphony Orchestra\, and the Abilene Symphony Orchestra. She returns to the San Francisco Piano Festival\, Friends of Chamber Music of Miami\, Bargemusic\, the MostArts Festival\, and more. Upcoming publicati ons include scores of her compositions—Poème for alto saxophone and pia no and Con Brio for two pianos—as well as her piano solo transcription o f Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony and transcriptions of works by Bruckner \, Berg\, Tchaikovsky\, Fauré\, and Bach.\n\n**About Nicolas Namoradze**\ n\n**Nicolas Namoradze** is a visionary pianist and composer known for his innovative artistry. He came to international attention in 2018 upon winn ing the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary\, Cana da\, and has since garnered international acclaim for his performances and recordings. A Musical America New Artist\, BBC Music Magazine Rising Star and Gramophone One to Watch\, he was bestowed the Pianist of the Year Awa rd by the UK Critics’ Circle in 2022. His often sold-out recitals around the globe have been met with critical praise\, and recent album releases have received extraordinary accolades\, including the Choc de Classica\, R ecord of the Month in Limelight\, Instrumental Disc of the Month in BBC Mu sic Magazine\, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone\, Editor’s Choice in Pres to Classical and Critics’ Choice in International Piano\, as well as a f irst-place debut in the UK charts for classical instrumental albums. Now a n exclusive Ondine recording artist\, his first album with the label will be released in 2026.\n\nThis season Namoradze gives recital tours in the U K\, US and Germany\, and appears in residencies at the Santa Fe Chamber Mu sic Festival\, Cleveland Institute of Music\, Morningside Music Bridge\, a nd the University of Puget Sound. He appears at venues including the Elbph ilharmonie Hamburg\, the Kronberg Casals Forum\, Munich’s Prinzregentent heater\, Doha’s Al Mayassa Theatre and New York’s Kaufman Center and S teinway Hall. He returns to London following an acclaimed recital at Wigmo re Hall as well as giving the UK premiere of his ground-breaking Neuroreci tal opening the season for Lancaster Arts\, a project which has been the s ubject of extensive coverage in outlets such as the Financial Times\, BBC Music Magazine\, Classic FM and Radio Classique. Concerto engagements incl ude Ravel’s Piano Concerto at New York’s Kaufman Center and Rachmanino ff’s Second Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Irela nd.\n\nHighlights of previous seasons include acclaimed performances of Br ahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra\, whose broadcast medici.tv included as one of nine all-time gre atest performances by former piano competition winners in a “prizewinner to pantheon” lineup and named him among thirty-five pianists in their l ist of “history’s most celebrated pianists.” Recent acclaim includes five-star reviews in The Telegraph and The Guardian\, which described his Royal Festival Hall performance as “ideally laconic and debonair\, weig hty yet exquisite\, and exactingly precise in tone and touch\,” while In ternational Piano hailed his Wigmore Hall recital as “unfolding in an op alescent glow\, every bar touched with beauty… exultant and never less t han technically immaculate.” Additional highlights include residencies w ith the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra\, Konzerthaus Dortmund\, Verbier Festiv al and Dresdner Philharmonie\, recitals at major venues such as Carnegie H all\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Boston’s Gardner Museu m\, and concerto performances with the London Philharmonic\, Sinfonieorche ster Basel\, Calgary Philharmonic\, Milwaukee Symphony\, RAI Symphony Orch estra and Sarasota Festival Orchestra\, under conductors including Karina Canellakis\, Hans Graf\, Jeffrey Kahane\, Ken-David Masur and Daniele Rust ioni.\n\nHighlights of his work as a composer include commissions and perf ormances by leading artists and ensembles including Ken-David Masur\, Luka s Ligeti\, Tessa Lark\, Metropolis Ensemble and the Momenta\, Verona and B arkada Quartets\, at festivals such as the Chelsea Music Festival\, Honens Festival\, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, Portland Piano International and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr\, and several album releases on the Steinwa y & Sons label. He has also composed and produced a number of film soundtr acks\, including Le chant des étoiles\, produced by the Musée Unterlinde n\, and Nuit d’opéra à Aix\, made in association with the Festival d ’Aix-en-Provence. His compositions are published by the Japan-based Muse Press.\n\nNamoradze is also involved in new directions in performance and audience engagement\, informed by his background in music-related fields in the cognitive sciences. His doctoral thesis at the CUNY Graduate Center developed mathematical models for aspects of musical perception\, winning the Barry Brook Award for dissertation of the year. It is now published b y Springer as the book “Ligeti’s Macroharmonies” in the Computationa l Music Science series. Namoradze presents recital formats that reimagine the concert experience through a range of innovative projects\, including lecture-recitals with a focus on deep listening\, immersive multimedia per formances\, and interdisciplinary collaborations with scientific research. \n\nBorn in Tbilisi\, Georgia and raised in Budapest\, Namoradze studied in Budapest\, Vienna\, Florence\, New York and London with mentors includi ng Emanuel Ax\, Yoheved Kaplinsky\, Zoltán Kocsis\, Matti Raekallio\, And rás Schiff and Eliso Virsaladze in piano\, and John Corigliano in composi tion. He now serves on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and deputiz es at The Juilliard School. LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York SUMMARY:Flatiron Festival\, Offering I: OPENING GALA: "Mine is Bigger Than Yours: A Friendly Battle of Mad Piano Transcriptions": Soukhovetski\, Sato \, Korepanova\, & Namoradze URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/16353-flatiron-festival-offering-i-ope ning-gala-mine-is-bigger-than-yours-a-friendly-battle-of-mad-piano-transcr iptions-soukhovetski-sato-korepanova-namoradze END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR