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“NADA MEETS JOHANNES BRAHMS”
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NADA BRINGS BRAHMS TO LIFE
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New York, NY (September 20, 2017):
On September 20, 2017 MEII Enterprises will release
"
Nada Meets Johannes Brahms"
the third album in a series of several planned albums featuring award-winning Nada’s recordings of Brahms works for solo piano.
Nada’s most recent recordings explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. These include the first recording on piano of his Organ Chorales, Op. 122 and other rarely-recorded works, alongside familiar pieces, such as the Op. 39 Waltzes.
Pianist Nada’s extended study of Brahms’ works led her to feel as if she knows him intimately. She created this third album in the series to be a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self from beginning to end.
Nada’s core repertoire ranges from Mozart to Prokofiev. In the past few years, however, she has focused her attention on Johannes Brahms solo and concert works.
On October 13th this year, she will return to Beirut (Lebanon) to perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor with the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Garo Avessian.
She was also invited for a return engagement this year to perform Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” with the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra in Ohio on August 18th. Following her performance, Concertmaster and faculty professor Cecilia Johnson wrote:
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“Pianist Nada is an extraordinary performer, with an expressive nature that never fails to move her audiences. Her ability to interpret great works for piano is such that, after learing a concerto performed by Nada, the listener has the sense that he/she has been in the presence of a great storyteller. Her use of color from the keyboard, her impeccable timing, her facility, and her dramatic flair make for very memorable performances."
Others have noted:
“There is no doubting Nada’s resonance with Brahms writing.”
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International Piano, December 2016
”Nada is a pianist of poetic depth, great artistry and rich musical insight. She performs with brilliant technique and gives to each work a profound interpretation. Her Brahms is sublime, she fully inhabits these works and brings out their many subtle layers of musical beauty – a truly world class and original artist.”
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Nick Peros, Phoenix Classical, July 2017
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1. Sarabande in B minor
2. Gigue in B minor
Four Ballades, Op. 10
3. Andante in D minor " Edward"
4. Andante in D Major
5.Intermezzo : Allegro in B minor
6. Andante con moto in B Major
Klavierstücke, Op. 119
7. Intermezzo: Adagio in B minor
8. Intermezzo: Andantino un poco agitato in E minor
9. Intermezzo : Grazioso e giocoso in C Major
10. Rhapsody: Allegro risoluto in E flat Major
11. Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4
Rasch und feurig
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Pianist Nada, a U.S. citizen of Lebanese/Hungarian descent, with an award-winning Paris Conservatory education, enjoys a career as a soloist, radio broadcaster, and educator. She was a first prize winner at the Paris Conservatory who then came to North America for advanced studies at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada and at Indiana University in the U.S. with the late pianist Gyorgy Sebok.
Nada has performed in prestigious halls worldwide, including the Steinway Hall in New York City, Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, Severance Hall in Cleveland and at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Her last recital tour took her to Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan.
In Paris and New York City, she has premiered works by great Lebanese composers Bechara El Khoury and Elias Rahbani and recorded pieces by classical/jazz composer Eugene Marlow. Nada has notably performed piano concertos of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel with orchestras in the U.S. and served as Artist-in-Residence in colleges and universities.
An excellent communicator, both in introducing the music to her audiences and in interpreting the music through her performances, “I speak music” is the motto which best describes her charismatic personality and talent to generate enthusiasm and love of classical music.
Nada organizes, hosts, and performs in her own radio series “The Classical Hour” in Louisville, KY. “The Classical Hour” is a once-a-month live stream/broadcast live on WCHQ 100.9 FM
Crescent Hill Radio.com
and available on the net for download.
Nada has recorded five solo piano albums all of which are on the MEII Enterprises label. Recordings are available for purchase through
Nada’s website
, and
Amazon.com
or
cdbaby.com
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