Angelina Gadeliya: Music of Shadows and Light

Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 3:00pm
The Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown

FREE!

Praised for her "rare ability to make music speak" (The Gazette, Colorado) and her "rich and resonant sound" (The New York Sun), pianist Angelina Gadeliya is Assistant Professor in Residence of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of Connecticut, and is the Founding Artistic Director of the Connecticut Bach Festival. At Wesleyan, she will perform Frédéric Chopin's Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52; Franz Liszt's Ballade No. 2 in b minor, S. 171; Alberto Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2; and Richard Danielpour's Piano Fantasy, The Four Elements, and selected Preludes from The Enchanted Garden: Book II.

Listen to an interview with Angelina Gadeliya from the Center for the Arts Radio Hour, featuring recordings of her performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio in b minor K. 540 and Alexander Scriabin's Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major Op. 30 from her album "Music of Tribute: Schnittke and His Ghosts” (2015):