Natasha Kislenko/Hatem Nadim Four Hand Piano Concert October 9, 2009

Upcoming Chamber Music Concert at First Congregational Church, Fresno

Friday, October 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM.

Pianists Natasha Kislenko and Hatem Nadim will perform a"piano four-hands concert." They will be performing "Andante and Variation", Opus 83a by Felix Mendelssohn, "Romance del Plata, Sonatina" by Carlos Guastavino(Argentinian composer), and Stravinsky's original piano four-hand version of "The Rite of Spring.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear world-class musicians perform this extraordinary work.
First Congregational Church, Fresno, 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd, just south of Clinton. Suggested donation General $10.00, Student $5.00.

Natasha Kislenko
Kislenko has performed extensively as a soloist and a chamber musician throughout her native Russia, Europe and the United States. Recognized as a versatile artist for her broad range of experience, playing pieces from the Baroque era to the present, she has performed with distinguished artists including Sarah Chang, Zvi Zeitlin, James Buswell, Theodore Kuchar, Tadeu Coelho, and Leone Buyse.
Winning international awards at piano competitions in Germany, France, the Slovak Republic, Italy, and Portugal, she made her Carnegie Hall solo debut 1996. Kislenko holds graduate degrees in piano from the famed Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Stony Brook University, where N.Y. principal teachers included Anatoly Vedernikov, Joaquín Achúcarro and Gilbert Kalish.

Kislenko now on the Keyboard faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was previously at California State University, Fresno, for five years, and has been a faculty member for summer festivals at the Meadowmount School of Music, NY (2003) and the Music Academy of the West, CA (2004-present).
While favoring her native Russian music, she has also been exploring the diversity of the piano styles in the first half of the 20th century.

Mr. Nadim, born in Cairo, studied solo piano since the age of 10 at the Cairo Conservatoire. He has studied with R. Yassa, V. Fedorovtzew and V. Samaliotow and graduated with honors. He won a music scholarship to the University at Frankfurt (Germany) and continued his post-graduate studies in chamber music and vocal accompaniment, with Professors Joachim Volkmann and Rainer Hoffmann earning his degree.

As a faulty member at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz he taught from 1989 to 1996. In 1989 he accepted a coveted faculty postion at the University of Music in Mannheim and in September 2006, Mr. Nadim was appointed staff accompanist at California State University in Fresno.

Hatem Nadim has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Korea and the Middle East and worked with some of the most renowned performing artists including Leslie Parnas, Arto Noras, Michael Flaksman, Susanne Rabenschlag, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Michael Hasel, the Verdi Quartet, Herrmann Voss and Helene Joseph-Weil.

Mr. Nadim has several recordings, including a complete collection of the Mozart Violin Sonatas and Variations with the German violinist, Susanne Rabenschlag for Avi-Music and Deutschland Radio and working on recording the complete Violin Sonatas of Beethoven and the German Romantiks (Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn) also with Susanne Rabenschlag.
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