Autumn Classics

Piano recitals by Natalia Lezedova and Tatiana Stupak will be held in Nicosia at the Kasteliotissa Medieval Hall, on Wednesday 4th October at 8 p.m.

The music will be classical, by composers Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Schumann. The programme will also include two short classical romantic era style works by Limassol-based composer David Pentecost.

The Kasteliotissa Hall is close to Paphos Gate, on the corner of Agiou Marona & Rigenis Streets, Nicosia, 1010.

Entrance is free, and reservations for seats can be made by telephoning 99140240.

Provisional programmes of music

Tatiana Stupak:
Bach: Prelude & Fugue, BWV 859
Schumann: Intermezzo, Op.4 No. 5
Chopin: Scherzo No 1, Op. 20
Bach:Prelude and Fugue, BWV 846
Prokofiev: 'Mercutio', Op.75 No.8
Chopin: Etude, Op.10 No.5
Pentecost: Nocturne, Op.18
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, No.11

Natalia Lezedova:
Liszt: Vallée d'Obermann / Liebesträum – No.3
Alabiev-Liszt: The Nightingale
Grieg: Nocturne
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12, "Aufschwung"
Pentecost: Mélodie Triste et en Colère
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableaux, Op.33, Nos.8 & 9 / Moment Musical Op.16, No. 4

About the Musicians
Natalia Lezedova is a graduate of the Musical Faculty of the State Pedagogical University of Russia, and she also has postgraduate studies in "Musical Art" (2012). She attended an advanced training course from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (2013). She is also a laureate of five international competitions, among them: two first prizes as a performer-soloist (Saint-Petersburg and Moscow 2012), winner of the Grand-Prix music festival competition “Severnaya Venetsia” (2012) and first prize laureate as a concertmaster (Music Competition in Performing Arts in St. Petersburg, 2013). In recent years she has arranged many concerts in Cyprus, most of them for charity, and she has collaborated with musicians from Russia, Cyprus, Germany and UK.

Tatiana Stupak started learning the piano at age five, and later studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg.  She won a Bach international competition and an organ international competition in Russia.  She has performed in Austria and Germany as well as in Russia. Tatiana is now based in Cyprus, where she is well known, having played many times in the last few years, both as a solo pianist and as accompanist for other musicians. She recently organised a very successful charity concert involving nine international perfomers, at the Pattichion Theatre in Limassol, and has invited musicians from the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in Moscow to perform at two events in Cyprus this coming December. She runs the Tatiana Stupak Piano School, which was recently opened in Limassol.