Girl Power Concert with Natalia Kazaryan
Saturday, March 23, 2024 | 4pm - 5:30pm
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
$25 Ticket; Sponsored Tickets Available at No Charge
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
$25 Ticket; Sponsored Tickets Available at No Charge
Brushwood Center is excited to welcome Natalia Kazaryan's concert program, Girl Power, celebrating Women's History Month!
Unlike the majority of Natalia's programs, which are inclusive of composers of all genders, this program's sole focus is celebrating the work of women composers of the past 200 years — from Clara Schumann to Joan Tower. Although Lili Boulanger’s Trois morceaux opens the program, for Natalia, the work is its emotional heart — her discovery of this powerful but largely unknown work a decade ago sparked her passion for championing great works by women. Following the Boulanger are works of Clara Schumann and Grazyna Bacewicz that, although written 100 years apart, share a powerful sense of emotional intimacy and heartbreaking melody.
The program's second half brings together three of today's most important women composers. Vivian Fung's Glimpses explores the kaleidoscope of vivid timbres possible with the prepared piano, while Joan Tower's Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman delights in rhythmic and melodic variety to such an extent that it sounds improvisatory. And Emma Lou Diemer's Piano Sonata No. 3, with its overtones of Copland and Glass, is always a favorite with Natalia's audiences thanks to its unstoppable energy and poignant lyricism.
Program
Lili Boulanger: Trois morceaux pour piano
Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 21
Vivian Fung: Glimpses
Joan Tower: Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Emma Lou Diemer: Piano Sonata No. 3
Unlike the majority of Natalia's programs, which are inclusive of composers of all genders, this program's sole focus is celebrating the work of women composers of the past 200 years — from Clara Schumann to Joan Tower. Although Lili Boulanger’s Trois morceaux opens the program, for Natalia, the work is its emotional heart — her discovery of this powerful but largely unknown work a decade ago sparked her passion for championing great works by women. Following the Boulanger are works of Clara Schumann and Grazyna Bacewicz that, although written 100 years apart, share a powerful sense of emotional intimacy and heartbreaking melody.
The program's second half brings together three of today's most important women composers. Vivian Fung's Glimpses explores the kaleidoscope of vivid timbres possible with the prepared piano, while Joan Tower's Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman delights in rhythmic and melodic variety to such an extent that it sounds improvisatory. And Emma Lou Diemer's Piano Sonata No. 3, with its overtones of Copland and Glass, is always a favorite with Natalia's audiences thanks to its unstoppable energy and poignant lyricism.
Program
Lili Boulanger: Trois morceaux pour piano
Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 21
Vivian Fung: Glimpses
Joan Tower: Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Emma Lou Diemer: Piano Sonata No. 3
Please purchase tickets by Friday, March 22nd
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Natalia Kazaryan, Piano
From Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, pianist Natalia Kazaryan has been hailed by The New York Sun for her “prodigious ability,” remarking that she “immediately established an atmosphere of strength and confidence.” She is “a marvel among marvels … fascinating, elegant” (Nice-Matin) and “incredible” (All Classical Portland). As a soloist, she has performed both major and lesser-known concertos — including those of Florence Price, Clara Schumann, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Prokofiev, and Mozart — with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, the Harrisburg Symphony, and other ensembles across the country. Ms. Kazaryan’s acclaimed performance of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement, conducted by James Ross, was featured on Front Row Washington (WETA), DC’s classical music radio station. |
