Music Professor Nadia Shpachenko is among the list of nominees for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
The pianist’s CD “Woman At The New Piano” received a nomination in the Best Classical Compendium category. The piece Flaherty: Airdancing for Toy Piano & Electronics, performed by Shpachenko and Genevieve Feiwen Lee and composed by Tom Flaherty was nominated in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category.
“Woman At The New Piano” scored 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.