Nicolas Namoradze
Piano
There is much potential in playing with how much time is left between pieces and whether one cuts the flow for applause.“
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Biography
Download Biography: Among the most critically acclaimed musicians of his generation, Namoradze was bestowed the 2020 & 2021 Young Pianist Award by the UK Critics’ Circle, which called him "very much more than a top-flight pianist." A Gramophone "One to Watch" and BBC Music Magazine "Rising Star," Namoradze was also named among WQXR’s "20 for 20," a list that "includes long-time heroes, established favorites and newcomers set for stardom who are redefining what classical music can be." Recent critical highlights include rare five-star reviews in The Telegraph and The Guardian, which called his performance at Royal Festival Hall "ideally laconic and debonair, weighty yet exquisite, and exactingly precise in tone and touch." A January 2022 cover feature in International Piano declared Namoradze’s Wigmore Hall debut "astonishing," concluding that, "with so many talents and interests it is impossible to predict what this young man will go on to do: all we can be sure of is that it will be both original and unexpected."
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, among others. He has also composed and produced a number of film soundtracks, including Walking Painting by Fabienne Verdier 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 the creator of IDAGIO Mindfulness, a platform on IDAGIO, the world’s leading classical music streaming app. Besides a podcast, video series and several other resources, the core of the platform constitutes several mental skills and mindfulness training courses for both performers and listeners. As part of his work in the field, Namoradze has begun presenting a new event type, "mindful recitals," interspersing musical performances with guided meditations that combine mindfulness practice and music appreciation.
Namoradze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1992 and grew up in Budapest, Hungary. After completing his undergraduate in Budapest, Vienna and Florence, he moved to New York for his master’s at The Juilliard School and his doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center, holding the Graduate Center Fellowship. His teachers and mentors have included Emanuel Ax, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Zoltán Kocsis, Matti Raekallio, András Schiff and Elisso Virsaladze in piano, and John Corigliano in composition. For several years Namoradze served on the faculty of Queens College, where he taught chamber music, composition and music history.
2022 / 2023
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Programme
Berg: Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 1
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 869 (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)
Namoradze: Etudes (selections)
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F major, BWV 856 (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
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Beethoven: Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”
Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (selections)
Namoradze: Etudes (selections)
Bach-Rachmaninov: Suite from Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
Rachmaninov-Namoradze: Adagio from Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
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Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (selections)
Bach-Rachmaninov: Suite from Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
Rachmaninov-Namoradze: Adagio from Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Rachmaninov: Nine Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 (selections)
Namoradze: Etudes (selections)
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Namoradze: Memories of Rachmaninov’s “Georgian Song”
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (selections)
Ligeti: Etudes (selections)
Namoradze: Etudes (selections)
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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D 960
Mindful recitals are concerts that alternate musical performances with short mindfulness exercises and thought experiments. Each piece of music is preceded by a discussion and guided meditation that lasts a few minutes long. These meditations are a cross between mindfulness and music appreciation: they not only ease the listener into a calm, aware and perceptive state of mind, but also include cues about how to listen to the specific piece of music coming up, guiding the listener into a particular headspace to hear these works.
Unlike a lecture-recital, which may rely on some understanding of music theory or history, these mindful recitals do not assume any prior knowledge. On the contrary, they encourage coming to the event with fresh ears, simply bringing one’s curiosity and attention. Rather than presenting primarily factual information on the works to enhance the listener’s experience, the mindful recital instead takes an experiential approach, honing of our awareness of a broader spectrum of our moment-to-moment experience to reveal new perspectives on the process of listening.
Bach-Busoni: “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, BWV 639
Introduction to mindful listening
Rachmaninoff-Kocsis: Vocalise
Embodied awareness and the physiology of listening
Bach: French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812
Perspectives on visual and auditory imagination
Bowen: Fragments from Hans Andersen, Op. 58 & 61 (Selection)
Deconstructing sound and the perception of sonic layers
Namoradze: Etude V, Entwined Threads
Theories of emotion and mindfulness of feeling
Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Piano No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, II: Lento
with Lukas Ligeti (Electronic Percussion)
Composer-performers Lukas Ligeti (electronic percussion) and Nicolas Namoradze (piano) present “Ligeti in Dialogue” in celebration of the centenary of the birth of György Ligeti (1923-2006). They explore threads passing through his music – from prior influences to works informed by his legacy – in a unique, dialogue-like recital for marimba lumina and piano, presenting an intertwined set of solo and duo performances of the works of J.S. Bach, György Ligeti, Lukas Ligeti and Nicolas Namoradze. The programme also includes new music written for this joint recital, for piano and marimba lumina-piano duo. With their unique viewpoint on one of the past century’s most iconic composers, Ligeti and Namoradze present a compelling retrospective as well as a vivid exploration of the relevance of this musical legacy in the present and future.
with Vadim Gluzman (Violin) & Schumann Quartett (String Quartet)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 “Quartetto serioso”
Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major
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Chausson: Concert for Vioin, Piano and String Quartet in D major, Op. 21
Schedule
20:00 Uhr
18:00 Uhr
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23:15 Uhr
18:00 Uhr
15:30 Uhr
19:30 Uhr
Discography
5 Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133
Arabesque in C major, Op. 18
Nicolas Namoradze
Arabesque for Piano
Robert Schumann
Humoreske in B-flat major, Op. 20
Nicolas Namoradze
3 Etudes
Fragments from Hans Andersen, Op. 58/61Concert study for piano No. 1 in G flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
York Bowen
Concert study for piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 32
York Bowen
12 Studies for piano, Op. 46
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