Nikolai Lugansky

Name: Nikolai Lugansky
Start: 2025-02-23T15:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-23T17:00:00-08:00
Location: Soka Performing Arts Center

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Soka Performing Arts Center | Aliso Viejo, CA

“The pianist of the overwhelming sensitivity, who puts forward not himself, but the music…” - The Daily Telegraph (UK) FEATURED ARTIST: Nikolai Lugansky, piano PROGRAM: MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words (“Lieder ohne Worte”) - Selection TBA SCHUBERT Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 (D.760), “Wanderer Fantasy” INTERMISSION WAGNER (Arr. Lugansky) 4 Scenes from Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D WAGNER/LISZT “Isoldens Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde,” transcription for piano, S.447 Did you know Nikolai Lugansky once performed Rachmaninov’s entire solo works in a three-concert cycle? This remarkable feat, celebrated at venues like Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and Wigmore Hall in London, showcases the extraordinary talent of a pianist hailed as “the most trailblazing and meteoric performer of all” by Gramophone. Born in Moscow, Lugansky’s prodigious talent was evident early on. By 16, he had already won the All-Union competition of young musicians in Tbilisi, setting the st
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