NICOLETA SAVVIDOU & ALICE POWER - PIANO RECITAL

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Programme:

Nicoleta Savvidou

Enrique Granados (1867-1916),

El Amor y la Muerte, No. 5 from Goyescas (1911)

Philip Glass (b.1937),

Piano Etude No. 6 and No. 2 (1994-2012)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849),

Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1836)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Funérailles from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (1849)
 

Alice Power

J.Brahms Ballade op.10 no1

M.Ravel-Valses nobles et sentimentales

F.Chopin-Fantasie f minor op.49

R.Rachmaninoff-Polka W.R.

Nicoleta Savvidou is a classically trained pianist born and raised in Paphos, Cyprus. She is currently pursuing her M.M. in Piano Performance at Longy School of Music of Bard College, studying with Donald Berman, under the Christopher Horner Endowed Scholarship. She received her B.M. in Piano Performance major and Creative Entrepreneurship minor from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she studied with Max Levinson.

Nicoleta continues to strengthen and enrich her artistic voice and technique through masterclasses with Daniel Bernard Roumain, Andrew Rangell, Anna Polonsky, Alessio Bax, as well as teaching students the art of piano playing in both the United States and Europe.

Nicoleta strives to bring to life a diverse range of musical works, showcasing the rich history of classical music while highlighting the works of underrepresented composers. She believes that music is the most influential tool to cultivate change and build a better world!

Alice Power is a 23 year old Swedish pianist, born into a family of professional musicians. At the age of 5 she started playing the piano with her mother Victoria Power and grandmother Elena Power. Alice also studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in the class of Marianna Shirinyan. At the same time she studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for her Bachelor of Music.

A meeting with Rena Shereshevskaya, the worldwide renowned pianist and teacher, made Alice move to Paris in September 2021 to start her studies in her class at École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot. Rena Shereshevskaya is also the teacher of renowned pianists Alexandre Kantorow, Lucas Debargue, and others.

Alice is a laureate of several scholarships and international competitions, recently at the Concours International de Piano de Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux in France. In 2017 she was invited to play with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the annual opening of the Swedish government for all members of the Swedish royal family and the Swedish parliament. Alice has performed in most of Sweden’s biggest venues, in Salle Cortot in Paris, Rosey Concert Hall in Switzerland, the Radio House of Wroclaw, Fréderic Chopin’s summer house in Poland, as well as in China, England, Romania, Jordan, Italy, Norway, Georgia, France - with Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wroclaw University Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vasteras Sinfonietta Orchestra and also performs regularly in chamber music groups.

She has worked with renowned musicians: Renaud Capuçon, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Rafael Payare, Marc Soustrot and others. Alice is regularly invited to international music festivals in Sweden, France and abroad.

Since 2011 Alice has also been a guest artist in the big Swedish show “Rhapsody in Rock” created by pianist/composer Robert Wells. They have toured together several times and have played in most of Swedish big concert halls and arenas, as well as in England and China, with numerous performances on Swedish and international television. Alice obtained her Master Degree in Musicology and Piano Interpretation in June 2023 and is continuing on her Artist Diploma under prof.Rena Shereshevskaya the next years in Paris, as well as actively performing in Europe.

Since January 2024 Alice is as well one of the soloists of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland.