American Composers Alliance congratulates Grammy-nominee Tom Flaherty for his composition Airdancing For Toy Piano, Piano & Electronics. The album Woman At The New Piano has received a nomination in the Best Classical Compendium category. In addition, the piece, Flaherty: Airdancing for Toy Piano & Electronics, performed by Nadia Shpachenko (piano) and Genevieve Feiwen Lee (toy piano) and composed by Tom Flaherty was nominated in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category.
Woman At The New Piano scored yet a third nomination in the Producer of the Year, Classical, category for producers Marina A. Ledin and Victor Ledin.
The album was engineered and edited by Barry Werger-Gottesman. It includes world-premiere recordings by Tom Flaherty, James Matheson, Adam Schoenberg and Peter Yates, who is also a music professor at Cal Poly Pomona.
The recording is available in CD and digital formats at Amazon and other retailers. Sheet music for Airdancing is on sale at $14.50 plus shipping through February, 2016.
Pianist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman has performed extensively in solo recitals and with orchestras in major venues across North America, Europe and Asia. Described by critics as a truly inspiring and brilliant pianist spellbinding in sensitivity and mastery of technique, Nadia enjoys bringing into the world things that are outside the box powerful pieces that often possess unusual sonic qualities or instrumentation. She performs on piano, toy piano, harpsichord, and percussion in concerts that often feature recitation, electronics and multimedia.