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:20261004T215221Z UID:70a38bff-0c90-4cb7-9cd6-462d6b297b63 DTSTART:20261106T000000Z DTEND:20261106T023000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Nicolas Namoradze\n\n6 PM Doo rs & Pre-Reception\n8 PM Performance\n10 PM Post-Reception\n\n_____\n\n**N icolas Namoradze**: Bach\, Beethoven\, Ravel\n\n[Gotham Arts](https://goth amarts.net) in collaboration with [Groupmuse](https://www.groupmuse.com/) is delighted to present an intimate private solo recital by pianist [Nicol as Namoradze](https://nicolasnamoradze.com/) featuring works by Bach\, Bee thoven\, and Ravel\, including two new transcriptions by Nicolas of Beetho ven's celebrated *Grosse Fuge* and Ravel's *Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2* . This evening celebrates the launch of Nicolas Namoradze's new album on t he Ondine label.\n\nWine will be served.\n\n**Program**\n\nBEETHOVEN Sona ta No. 22 in F Major\, Op. 54\n\nBACH Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Major from the *Well-Tempered Clavier\, Book II*\, BWV 882\nBACH Prelude and Fu gue in f-sharp minor from the *Well-Tempered Clavier\, Book II*\, BWV 883\ n\nBEETHOVEN-NAMORADZE Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major\, Op. 133\n\n*Intermis sion*\n\nRAVEL Miroirs\n\nRAVEL-NAMORADZE Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2\ n\n__________\n\n**About the Artist**\n\n[Watch Nicolas perform Bach\, Bee thoven\, and Scriabin at Wigmore Hall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRY Y1279m5o)\n\n**About Nicolas Namoradze**\n\n**Nicolas Namoradze** is a vis ionary pianist and composer known for his innovative artistry. He came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens Internat ional Piano Competition in Calgary\, Canada\, and has since garnered inter national acclaim for his performances and recordings. A Musical America Ne w Artist\, BBC Music Magazine Rising Star and Gramophone One to Watch\, he was bestowed the Pianist of the Year Award by the UK Critics’ Circle in 2022. His often sold-out recitals around the globe have been met with cri tical praise\, and album releases have received extraordinary accolades\, including the Choc de Classica\, Record of the Month in Limelight\, Instru mental Disc of the Month in BBC Music Magazine\, Editor’s Choice in Gram ophone\, Editor’s Choice in Presto Classical and Critics’ Choice in In ternational Piano\, as well as a first-place debut in the UK charts for cl assical instrumental albums. An exclusive Ondine recording artist\, his fi rst album with the label\, released in October 2026\, is an all-Beethoven album featuring the *Hammerklavier* Sonata and his own solo piano arrangem ent of the *Grosse Fuge*.\n\nThe 2026/27 season takes him across North Ame rica\, Europe and further afield with highlights including a series of rec itals at the Konzerthaus Dortmund\, recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall\, Munich’s Prinzregententheater\, Padova’s Palazzo Livano and the Vancou ver Annex\, highly anticipated returns to Japan and Taiwan for solo recita l tours including performances at Tokyo’s Triphony Hall and Taipei’s N ational Concert Hall\, and residencies at the Banff Centre and the Sarasot a\, Honens and Tonebase Festivals. Orchestral highlights include a Saint-S aëns concerto recording project\, with a performance at New York’s Alic e Tully Hall. He presents his groundbreaking “Neurorecital” at the Cri stofori and Beakerhead Festivals\, a project which has garnered extensive coverage including features in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, BBC Music Magazine\, Classic FM\, and Radio Classique. The season also sees se veral major composition premieres\, including a co-commission by Wigmore H all and the BBC premiering at the Wigmore\, a Schnabel Foundation commissi on appearing on a new album on the Sono Luminus label\, and the compulsory commissioned work for the Tbilisi International Piano Competition\, where he also serves on the jury.\n\nPrevious seasons have included acclaimed p erformances of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Iván Fischer and the B udapest Festival Orchestra\, whose broadcast medici.tv included as one of nine all-time greatest performances by former piano competition winners in a “prizewinner to pantheon” lineup and named him among thirty-five pi anists in their list of “history’s most celebrated pianists.” Recent acclaim includes five-star reviews in The Telegraph and The Guardian\, wh ich described his Royal Festival Hall performance as “ideally laconic an d debonair\, weighty yet exquisite\, and exactingly precise in tone and to uch\,” while International Piano hailed his Wigmore Hall recital as “u nfolding in an opalescent glow\, every bar touched with beauty… exultant and never less than technically immaculate.” Additional highlights incl ude residencies with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra\, Verbier Festival\, a nd Dresdner Philharmonie\, recitals at major venues such as Carnegie Hall\ , Konzerthaus Berlin\, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan\, and Boston’s Gardner Museum\ , and concerto performances with the London Philharmonic\, Sinfonieorchest er Basel\, Calgary Philharmonic\, Milwaukee Symphony\, RAI Symphony Orches tra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland\, under conductors incl uding Karina Canellakis\, Hans Graf\, Jeffrey Kahane\, Ken-David Masur\, a nd Daniele Rustioni. \n\nAs a composer\, Namoradze has received commission s and performances from esteemed artists\, ensembles\, and festivals inclu ding the Chelsea Music Festival\, Portland Piano International\, Klavier-F estival Ruhr and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, with several album releases on the Steinway & Sons label. He has also scored several film sou ndtracks\, such as Le chant des étoiles\, and his works are published by Muse Press. Namoradze is also involved in new directions in performance an d audience engagement\, informed by his involvement in music-related field s in the cognitive sciences. His doctoral thesis at the CUNY Graduate Cent er developed mathematical models for aspects of musical perception\, winni ng the Barry Brook Award for dissertation of the year. It is now published by Springer as the book “Ligeti’s Macroharmonies” in the Computatio nal Music Science series. Namoradze presents recital formats that reimagin e the concert experience through a range of innovative projects\, includin g lecture-recitals\, immersive multimedia performances\, and interdiscipli nary collaborations with scientific research. \n\nBorn in Tbilisi\, Georgi a and raised in Budapest\, Namoradze studied in Budapest\, Vienna\, Floren ce\, New York and London with mentors including Emanuel Ax\, Yoheved Kapli nsky\, Zoltán Kocsis\, Matti Raekallio\, András Schiff and Eliso Virsala dze in piano\, and John Corigliano in composition. He now serves on the fa culty of the CUNY Graduate Center and deputizes at The Juilliard School. LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York\, 10011 SUMMARY:Nicolas Namoradze: Bach\, Beethoven\, Ravel URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/17084-nicolas-namoradze-bach-beethoven -ravel IMAGE;VALUE=URI:https://bunny.groupmuse.com/db602aeb-3af9-46d9-9d9e-051c127 aa691/NicolasNamoradze-1.875w.png?aspect_ratio=1%3A1&width=1200 X-PRICE:$65 tickets ($55 for Supermusers) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR