Event
Grand Piano Series presents Natasha Paremski
Natasha Paremski, piano
Quinn Mason — Flowing Slowly from New Era Bagatelles
Chopin — Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op. 57
Chopin — Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35
Prokofiev — Selections from Romeo & Juliet
Stravinsky — Three Movements from Petrushka
Join piano virtuosa Natasha Paremski for an evening of adventurous piano repertoire that showcases her fearless technique and musical insight. Paremski opens the program with Quinn Mason’s New Era Bagatelles, a shimmering contemporary work, then navigates the stormy drama of Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor. She also brings her signature power and precision to Prokofiev’s selections from Romeo & Juliet before concluding with Stravinsky’s exhilarating Three Movements from Petrushka. This performance promises a thrilling journey through past and present piano masterpieces.
This presentation is part of the Grand Piano Series.
Natasha Paremski
Natasha Paremski
With her consistently striking and dynamic performances, pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and profound interpretations. She continues to generate excitement from all corners as she wins over audiences with her musical sensibility and a powerful, flawless technique.
Paremski is a regular return guest of many major orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In Europe, she has toured extensively with such orchestras as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vienna’s Tonkünstler Orchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester and Moscow Philharmonic.
A passionate chamber musician, Paremski is a regular recital partner of Grammy-winning cellist Zuill Bailey, with whom she has recorded a number of CDs. She has also been a guest at many chamber music festivals. Additionally, she was awarded several prestigious prizes at a very young age, including the Gilmore Young Artists prize in 2006 at 18, the Prix Montblanc in 2007 and the Orpheum Stiftung Prize in Switzerland. In September 2010, she was awarded the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year.
Born in Moscow, Paremski moved to the United States at age 8, becoming a U.S. citizen shortly thereafter, and is now based in New York City, where she is artistic director of New York Piano Society, a nonprofit organization that supports pianists whose professions lie outside of music.
Grand Piano Series
Grand Piano Series
Grand Piano Series is a nonprofit 501(c)(3), tax-exempt and financially self-supporting organization. Founded in 2016 by Milana Strezeva and Raniero Tazzi, Grand Piano Series is a nonprofit concert and education organization that seeks to enrich the cultural life of the Southwest Florida community with memorable concerts by international artists of the highest caliber, along with a dynamic program of community outreach for all ages, including programs for over 10,000 students each year in Collier and Lee counties.
For more information, visit grandpianoseries.org.
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