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:20260430T221705Z UID:aea83374-2743-4965-bd08-c2568eb10c3e 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 \n**Konstantin Soukhovetski\, Dan Sato\, Asiya Korepano va\, Nicolas Namoradze**\n\nPerforming their transcriptions of works by De bussy\, R. Strauss\, Ravel\, Tchaikovsky\, Mozart\, and more! \n\nAn array of wine and snacks will be served.\n\n_____\n\n**About the Artists**\n\n* *About Konstantin Soukhovetski**\n\n**Konstantin Soukhovetski** is regarde d as an original creative force among the pianists of his generation\, in a concertizing career that has gained him audiences’ tributes and critic s’ accolades in the US\, Africa\, Asia\, and Europe. A recipient of over 17 awards and winner of top prizes at the Cleveland\, Naumburg\, and UNIS A competitions\, Konstantin has made his reputation applying his singular interpretive vision and natural virtuosity to the cornerstones of solo and concerto repertory. Konstantin is internationally renown composer\, count ing among his work critically acclaimed transcription of R. Strauss’ Fou r Last Songs\, which premiered at L’Esprit du Piano festival in Bordeau x (France) and The Pride Suite for solo piano\, commissioned by the ProtoS tar Foundation\, with multiple national and international premieres planne d in the 2023/24 Season.\n\nSome highlights of Konstantin’s career inclu de critically acclaimed performances at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace The ater\, Paris’ Musee du Louvre\, Bern’s Paul Klee Zentrum\, Carnegie’ s Weill\, and Zankel halls. For his debut at Lincoln Center Alice Tully Ha ll\, Konstantin was praised on the NYTimes Arts Section cover: “Romantic ism so intense it warms up Philip Glass.” The Independent gave 5 stars t o Konstantin’s Wigmore Hall London debut\, with a glowing review of Schu bert’s last sonata: “…he let his vision take him where it would\, an d the result was revelatory\, as was his handling of the sonata’s ambigu ous 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 O rchestra\, SOLO DUE with Jacopo Giacopuzzi at La Jolla’s The Conrad (CA) \, Vashon PianoFête (WA)\, and Del Mar International Composer’s Symposi um (CA)\, and International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival (CO). In March 2023\, Konstantin premiered his transcription of Pascual Aldave’s Akela rre\, commissioned by OE Oficina for his second Spanish concert tour at th e Victoria Eugenia Theater in St. Sebastián\, Alkiza and Arrecife\, the C anary Islands. \n2024 will see Konstantin touring Latvia\, Ireland\, and U K with cellist Max Beitan\, and a month-long tour of Florida in February o f 2024\, which will include solo recitals\, lectures\, and performances w ith orchestra. In addition\, Konstantin will serve on the selection juries of the 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition\, 2023 Nashville In ternational Chopin Competition\, and Odyssiad Competition. \n\nIn 2020\, K onstantin joined the adjunct faculty of his alma mater\, The Juilliard Sch ool\, where he received his BM\, MM\, and AD with Jerome Lowenthal. Konsta ntin has been recently named Director of Pedagogy and Narrative Musiciansh ip at Bronx School for Music. Konstantin is deeply committed to musical ed ucation\, regularly teaching masterclasses\, interactive lecture performan ces\, and residency programs with the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras \, the ACES Educational Center for the Arts (CT)\, and the Grand Piano Ser ies (FL)\, among many others. Since 2011\, Konstantin has served as Artist -in-Residency at Pianofest in the Hamptons\, of which he is an alumnus (20 00-2007). In 2023/24 Konstantin is giving a 3-day workshop on Narrative Mu sicianship at International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival\, CO\, a virtua l two-week Narrative Musicianship intensive for tonebase.co among individu al lectures and masterclasses nationwide. Teaching engagements have taken Konstantin around the world to the Cincinnati College-Conservatory\, The N anyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore)\, the Shantou Piano Museum (China) \, the New England Piano Teachers Association\, and The Piano League\, to name a few. Konstantin has served on the jury panel of the Piano Ohio Comp etition\, the Hong Kong Music Schools Festival\, the Perfect Tone competit ion in Indonesia and was on the screening jury of CIPC’s 2020 Virtu(al)o so International Piano Competition. \n\nKonstantin’s creativity expands to innovative artistic projects that frequently involve modern dance. In 2 022 Konstantin premiered Encounters\, a commission by MorDance from Polina Nazaykinskaya\, which involved him in the choreography while he was perfo rming on the piano\, the only music for the ballet. In April 2023\, Konsta ntin premiers Ms. Nazaykinskaya’s new ballet Emily with MorDance. Konsta ntin and Polina’s creative alliance has produced a series of piano minia tures\, released during the COVID-19 lockdown on OClassica label\, availab le on all streaming platforms. (Remembrance\, Anticipation\, and A Summer Rain)\n\nKonstantin’s solo violin composition\, Postcard from The Edge\, is featured on CDs of renowned violinist Elmira Darvarova. In 2023/24 Kon stantin’s opera transcriptions\, as well as original compositions will b e published. 2023 marked a creation of The Pride Suite. Color Orange of Th e 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 2023. Cleveland Piano has commissioned two works from Konstantin for their Young Artists Competition Gala in 2023. \n\nIn addition to pian o performance and composition\, Konstantin’s love for words and language s has taken him on a foray into literature. He is currently working on two opera libretti\, commissioned by the Mississippi Opera and the Garth Newe l Music Center. The latter\, Her New Home is premiering in July 2023. Both are collaboration with long-standing creative partner\, composer Polina N azaykinskaya. \n\nKonstantin’s unique creativity and personality have b een acknowledged with a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans an d an Innovation 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**Ab out Dan Sato**\n\nDescribed by the legendary American virtuoso André Watt s as a musician of “exuberant spontaneity\, deep conviction\, and seriou s compositional understanding\,” **Dan Sato** has thrived in the deep tr enches of the classical music industry à la bioluminescent shrimp. As a p ianist\, educator and researcher\, he embodies the motto written on his fa vorite T-shirt\, “88 keys\, 10 fingers — no problem.”\n\nHe has been heard internationally through BBC\, WQXR\, CBC\, KHPR and major streaming media platforms and featured at music festivals across the U.S.\, includi ng Brevard Music Center\, Chautauqua Music Festival\, Rebecca Penneys Pian o Festival\, Castleman Quartet Program\, Chamber Music at New Park and Tac onic Music’s Summer Festival. He frequently collaborates with artists of his generation\, including Rachel Doehring Jackson\, Yeil Park\, Hannah T arley and Katherine Suzanne Weber\, and recorded critically acclaimed albu ms with Diane Hunger (Deviations) and Leah Plave (Impressions: The Redisco very of Henriëtte Bosmans). \n\nAppreciated among his colleagues as a hum an 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 st udents and taught keyboard literature at Syracuse University and has been a faculty artist at the Perlman Music Program\, ArtsAhimsa and Notes By Th e Bay Music Festival. He was most recently the visiting assistant professo r of piano at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and is now a lectu rer of piano performance at Syracuse University and Hamilton College.\n\nB oth as a performer and arranger\, Sato specializes in solo piano transcrip tions. His adaptation of Ravel’s Introduction et Allegro was published b y Muse Press in 2020\, and his output now includes arrangements of works o riginally by Debussy\, Ravel\, Rachmaninoff\, Szymanowski and Fred Rogers. He also gave the world premiere performance of Vincenzo Maltempo’s tour de force transcription of the Second Suite from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chlo é\, which was previously considered unplayable due to its extreme virtuos ic demands. His curation of such repertoire resulted in a rare\, all-symph onic piano recital celebrating orchestral masterworks associated with the Ballets Russes\, and his recorded performance won him First Prize in the M aurice Ravel Competition Paris 2024. \n\n**About Asiya Korepanova**\n\nAme rica’s only pianist to perform Rachmaninoff’s complete solo piano work s\, **Asiya Korepanova** is a pianistic powerhouse\, also widely recognize d as a composer\, visual artist\, and poet. A herald of an enormous repert oire—over 60 piano concertos and solo works spanning early Baroque to li ving composers—Asiya is a true completist who finds special joy in perfo rming large-scale cycles such as the 24 Liszt Etudes or Bach’s entire We ll-Tempered Clavier. Her emotionally charged\, vividly colored performance s have earned her deep audience admiration and many repeat invitations.\n\ nA prolific creator\, Asiya studied composition with Albert Leman\, the Co mposition Department Chair at the Moscow Conservatory and a student of Dmi try Shostakovich. She is the author of numerous original works and a remar kable body of piano transcriptions\, including Richard Strauss’s Ein Hel denleben\, Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata\, Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death\, Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony\, and many others. In 2025\, Deutsche Grammophon commissioned her to create a transcription of the 18th variation of Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody for Lang Lang\, who recor ded it for his album Piano Book 2. She also crafts original multimedia pro jects—merging her poetry\, artwork\, and music—for works by Liszt\, Ba ch\, Tchaikovsky\, and Mussorgsky.\n\nBorn to a musical family in Russia\, Asiya made her orchestral debut at nine with Mozart’s Concerto No. 8\, performing her own cadenza\, and gave a full solo recital the same year. S ince immigrating to the U.S. in 2012\, she has garnered national attention with appearances at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium\, the Phillips Col lection\, Newport Classical Festival\, the International Miami Piano Festi val\, and many others. Her performances have been featured on CNN\, NPR af filiates\, WFMT\, and WETA.\n\nIn the 2025–26 season\, Asiya debuts at t he Tippet Rise concert series and premieres her beloved Amy Beach Piano Co ncerto in South America\, making her debut with the Buenos Aires Philharmo nic. She also appears for the first time with the National Symphony Orches tra of Chile\, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra\, and the Abilene Symphony O rchestra. She returns to the San Francisco Piano Festival\, Friends of Cha mber Music of Miami\, Bargemusic\, the MostArts Festival\, and more. Upcom ing publications include scores of her compositions—Poème for alto saxo phone and piano and Con Brio for two pianos—as well as her piano solo tr anscription of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony and transcriptions of work s 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 2 018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in C algary\, Canada\, and has since garnered international acclaim for his per formances and recordings. A Musical America New Artist\, BBC Music Magazin e 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 re citals around the globe have been met with critical praise\, and recent al bum releases have received extraordinary accolades\, including the Choc de Classica\, Record of the Month in Limelight\, Instrumental Disc of the Mo nth in BBC Music Magazine\, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone\, Editor’s C hoice in Presto Classical and Critics’ Choice in International Piano\, a s well as a first-place debut in the UK charts for classical instrumental albums. Now an exclusive Ondine recording artist\, his first album with th e label will be released in 2026.\n\nThis season Namoradze gives recital t ours in the UK\, US and Germany\, and appears in residencies at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, Cleveland Institute of Music\, Morningside Mus ic Bridge\, and the University of Puget Sound. He appears at venues includ ing the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg\, the Kronberg Casals Forum\, Munich’s P rinzregententheater\, Doha’s Al Mayassa Theatre and New York’s Kaufman Center and Steinway Hall. He returns to London following an acclaimed rec ital at Wigmore Hall as well as giving the UK premiere of his ground-break ing Neurorecital opening the season for Lancaster Arts\, a project which h as been the subject of extensive coverage in outlets such as the Financial Times\, BBC Music Magazine\, Classic FM and Radio Classique. Concerto eng agements include Ravel’s Piano Concerto at New York’s Kaufman Center a nd Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orche stra of Ireland.\n\nHighlights of previous seasons include acclaimed perfo rmances of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Iván Fischer and the Budap est 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 piani sts in their list of “history’s most celebrated pianists.” Recent ac claim includes five-star reviews in The Telegraph and The Guardian\, which described his Royal Festival Hall performance as “ideally laconic and d ebonair\, weighty yet exquisite\, and exactingly precise in tone and touch \,” while International Piano hailed his Wigmore Hall recital as “unfo lding in an opalescent glow\, every bar touched with beauty… exultant an d never less than technically immaculate.” Additional highlights include residencies with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra\, Konzerthaus Dortmund\, Verbier Festival and 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\, Sinfonieorchester Basel\, Calgary Philharmonic\, Milwaukee Symphony\, RAI Symphony Orchestra and Sarasota Festival Orchestra\, under conductors inc luding Karina Canellakis\, Hans Graf\, Jeffrey Kahane\, Ken-David Masur an d Daniele Rustioni.\n\nHighlights of his work as a composer include commis sions and performances by leading artists and ensembles including Ken-Davi d Masur\, Lukas Ligeti\, Tessa Lark\, Metropolis Ensemble and the Momenta\ , Verona and Barkada Quartets\, at festivals such as the Chelsea Music Fes tival\, Honens Festival\, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, Portland Piano International and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr\, and several album releases on the Steinway & Sons label. He has also composed and produced a number o f film soundtracks\, including Le chant des étoiles\, produced by the Mus ée Unterlinden\, and Nuit d’opéra à Aix\, made in association with th e Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. His compositions are published by the Japa n-based Muse Press.\n\nNamoradze is also involved in new directions in per formance and audience engagement\, informed by his background in music-rel ated fields in the cognitive sciences. His doctoral thesis at the CUNY Gra duate Center developed mathematical models for aspects of musical percepti on\, winning the Barry Brook Award for dissertation of the year. It is now published by Springer as the book “Ligeti’s Macroharmonies” in the Computational Music Science series. Namoradze presents recital formats tha t reimagine the concert experience through a range of innovative projects\ , including lecture-recitals with a focus on deep listening\, immersive mu ltimedia performances\, and interdisciplinary collaborations with scientif ic research. \n\nBorn in Tbilisi\, Georgia and raised in Budapest\, Namora dze studied in Budapest\, Vienna\, Florence\, New York and London with men tors including Emanuel Ax\, Yoheved Kaplinsky\, Zoltán Kocsis\, Matti Rae kallio\, András Schiff and Eliso Virsaladze in piano\, and John Coriglian o in composition. He now serves on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and deputizes at The Juilliard School. LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York SUMMARY:Flatiron Festival\, Offering I: OPENING GALA: "Mine is Bigger Than Yours: A Friendly Battle of Piano Transcriptions": Soukhovetski\, Sato\, K orepanova\, & Namoradze URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/16353-flatiron-festival-offering-i-ope ning-gala-mine-is-bigger-than-yours-a-friendly-battle-of-piano-transcripti ons-soukhovetski-sato-korepanova-namoradze END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR