Flatiron Festival, Offering I: OPENING GALA: Mine is Bigger Than Yours: Konstantin Soukhovetski, Dan Sato, Asiya Korepanova, & Nicolas Namoradze

5 PM Doors & Pre-Reception
6 PM Performances
7:30 PM Post-Reception

Gotham Arts is thrilled to host the Flatiron Festival, a chamber music series directed by pianist and composer Asiya Korepanova, featuring seven "offerings" between May 31 and June 14, 2026.

Flatiron Festival
Offering I

OPENING GALA
Mine Is Bigger Than Yours
A Festive Evening Of Mad Piano Transcriptions

Featuring Meistersingers of Transcription
Konstantin Soukhovetski, Dan Sato, Asiya Korepanova, Nicolas Namoradze

Performing their transcriptions of works by Debussy, R. Strauss, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and more!

An array of wine and snacks will be served.

About the Artists

About Konstantin Soukhovetski

Konstantin Soukhovetski is regarded as an original creative force among the pianists of his generation, in a concertizing career that has gained him audiences’ tributes and critics’ accolades in the US, Africa, Asia, and Europe. A recipient of over 17 awards and winner of top prizes at the Cleveland, Naumburg, and UNISA 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, counting among his work critically acclaimed transcription of R. Strauss’ Four Last Songs, which premiered at L’Esprit du Piano festival in Bordeaux (France) and The Pride Suite for solo piano, commissioned by the ProtoStar Foundation, with multiple national and international premieres planned in the 2023/24 Season.

Some highlights of Konstantin’s career include critically acclaimed performances at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Paris’ Musee du Louvre, Bern’s Paul Klee Zentrum, Carnegie’s Weill, and Zankel halls. For his debut at Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall, Konstantin was praised on the NYTimes Arts Section cover: “Romanticism so intense it warms up Philip Glass.” The Independent gave 5 stars to Konstantin’s Wigmore Hall London debut, with a glowing review of Schubert’s last sonata: “…he let his vision take him where it would, and the result was revelatory, as was his handling of the sonata’s ambiguous close.”

This 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, SOLO DUE with Jacopo Giacopuzzi at La Jolla’s The Conrad (CA), Vashon PianoFête (WA), and Del Mar International Composer’s Symposium (CA), and International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival (CO). In March 2023, Konstantin premiered his transcription of Pascual Aldave’s Akelarre, commissioned by OE Oficina for his second Spanish concert tour at the Victoria Eugenia Theater in St. Sebastián, Alkiza and Arrecife, the Canary Islands.
2024 will see Konstantin touring Latvia, Ireland, and UK with cellist Max Beitan, and a month-long tour of Florida in February of 2024, which 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 Chopin Competition, and Odyssiad Competition.

In 2020, Konstantin joined the adjunct faculty of his alma mater, The Juilliard School, where he received his BM, MM, and AD with Jerome Lowenthal. Konstantin has been recently named Director of Pedagogy and Narrative Musicianship at Bronx School for Music. Konstantin is deeply committed to musical education, regularly teaching masterclasses, interactive lecture performances, and residency programs with the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras, the ACES Educational Center for the Arts (CT), and the Grand Piano Series (FL), among 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 Narrative Musicianship intensive for tonebase.co among individual lectures and masterclasses nationwide. Teaching engagements have taken Konstantin around the world to the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, The Nanyang 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 Competition, the Hong Kong Music Schools Festival, the Perfect Tone competition in Indonesia and was on the screening jury of CIPC’s 2020 Virtu(al)oso International Piano Competition.

Konstantin’s creativity expands to innovative artistic projects that frequently involve modern dance. In 2022 Konstantin premiered Encounters, a commission by MorDance from Polina Nazaykinskaya, 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 Polina’s creative alliance has produced a series of piano miniatures, released during the COVID-19 lockdown on OClassica label, available on all streaming platforms. (Remembrance, Anticipation, and A Summer Rain)

Konstantin’s solo violin composition, Postcard from The Edge, is featured on CDs of renowned violinist Elmira Darvarova. In 2023/24 Konstantin’s opera 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 2023. Cleveland Piano has commissioned two works from Konstantin for their Young Artists Competition Gala in 2023.

In addition to piano performance and composition, Konstantin’s love for words and languages has taken him on a foray into literature. He is currently working on two opera libretti, commissioned by the Mississippi Opera and the Garth Newel Music Center. The latter, Her New Home is premiering in July 2023. Both are collaboration with long-standing creative partner, composer Polina Nazaykinskaya.

Konstantin’s unique creativity and personality have been acknowledged with a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans and an Innovation Award from the Music Academy Of The West.
Born in Moscow to a family of artists, Konstantin studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School, where he double-majored in piano and composition.

About Dan Sato

Described by the legendary American virtuoso André Watts as a musician of “exuberant spontaneity, deep conviction, and serious compositional understanding,” Dan Sato has thrived in the deep trenches of the classical music industry à la bioluminescent shrimp. As a pianist, educator and researcher, he embodies the motto written on his favorite T-shirt, “88 keys, 10 fingers — no problem.”

He has been heard internationally through BBC, WQXR, CBC, KHPR and major streaming media platforms and featured at music festivals across the U.S., including Brevard Music 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 generation, including Rachel Doehring Jackson, Yeil Park, Hannah Tarley and Katherine Suzanne Weber, and recorded critically acclaimed albums with Diane Hunger (Deviations) and Leah Plave (Impressions: The Rediscovery of Henriëtte Bosmans).

Appreciated 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 taught keyboard literature at Syracuse University and has been a faculty artist at the Perlman Music Program, ArtsAhimsa and Notes By The Bay Music Festival. 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.

Both as a performer and arranger, Sato specializes in solo piano transcriptions. His adaptation 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 transcription of the Second Suite from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, which was previously considered unplayable due to its extreme virtuosic demands. His curation of such repertoire resulted in a rare, all-symphonic piano recital celebrating orchestral masterworks associated with the Ballets Russes, and his recorded performance won him First Prize in the Maurice Ravel Competition Paris 2024.

About Asiya Korepanova

America’s only pianist to perform Rachmaninoff’s complete solo piano works, Asiya Korepanova is a pianistic powerhouse, also widely recognized as a composer, visual artist, and poet. A herald of an enormous repertoire—over 60 piano concertos and solo works spanning early Baroque to living composers—Asiya is a true completist who finds special joy in performing large-scale cycles such as the 24 Liszt Etudes or Bach’s entire Well-Tempered Clavier. Her emotionally charged, vividly colored performances have earned her deep audience admiration and many repeat invitations.

A prolific creator, Asiya studied composition with Albert Leman, the Composition Department Chair at the Moscow Conservatory and a student of Dmitry Shostakovich. She is the author of numerous original works and a remarkable body of piano transcriptions, including Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, 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 recorded it for his album Piano Book 2. She also crafts original multimedia projects—merging her poetry, artwork, and music—for works by Liszt, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky.

Born 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. Since immigrating to the U.S. in 2012, she has garnered national attention with appearances at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, the Phillips Collection, Newport Classical Festival, the International Miami Piano Festival, and many others. Her performances have been featured on CNN, NPR affiliates, WFMT, and WETA.

In the 2025–26 season, Asiya debuts at the Tippet Rise concert series and premieres her beloved Amy Beach Piano Concerto in South 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 publications include scores of her compositions—Poème for alto saxophone and piano and Con Brio for two pianos—as well as her piano solo transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony and transcriptions of works by Bruckner, Berg, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, and Bach.

About Nicolas Namoradze

Nicolas Namoradze is a visionary pianist and composer known for his innovative artistry. He came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, Canada, 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 Award 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, 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. Now an exclusive Ondine recording artist, his first album with the label will be released in 2026.

This season Namoradze gives recital tours in the UK, US and Germany, and appears in residencies at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Cleveland Institute of Music, Morningside Music Bridge, and the University of Puget Sound. He appears at venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Kronberg Casals Forum, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Doha’s Al Mayassa Theatre and New York’s Kaufman Center and Steinway Hall. He returns to London following an acclaimed recital at Wigmore Hall as well as giving the UK premiere of his ground-breaking Neurorecital opening the season for Lancaster Arts, a project which has been the subject of extensive coverage in outlets such as the Financial Times, BBC Music Magazine, Classic FM and Radio Classique. Concerto engagements include Ravel’s Piano Concerto at New York’s Kaufman Center and Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

Highlights of previous seasons include acclaimed performances of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Iván Fischer and the Budapest 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 pianists in their list 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, weighty yet exquisite, and exactingly precise in tone and touch,” while International Piano hailed his Wigmore Hall recital as “unfolding in an opalescent glow, every bar touched with beauty… exultant and 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 including Karina Canellakis, Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, Ken-David Masur and Daniele Rustioni.

Highlights of his work as a composer include commissions and performances by leading artists and ensembles including Ken-David Masur, Lukas Ligeti, Tessa Lark, Metropolis Ensemble and the Momenta, Verona and Barkada 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 Steinway & Sons label. He has also composed and produced a number of film soundtracks, including Le chant des étoiles, produced by the Musée Unterlinden, 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.

Namoradze 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 by Springer as the book “Ligeti’s Macroharmonies” in the Computational 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 performances, and interdisciplinary collaborations with scientific research.

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia and raised in Budapest, Namoradze studied in Budapest, Vienna, Florence, New York and London with mentors including Emanuel Ax, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Zoltán Kocsis, Matti Raekallio, András Schiff and Eliso Virsaladze in piano, and John Corigliano in composition. He now serves on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and deputizes at The Juilliard School.

What's the music?

Asiya Korepanova

Nicolas Namoradze Piano

Konstantin Soukhovetski Piano

Dan Sato Piano