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Gocha Abuladze & Pavel Nersessian: Art Songs & Opera Arias

Flatiron, New York

Sun, April 20, 2025, at 5:00 PM, EDT

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: Don't bring your own drinks
: Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided
Wheelchair access: Wheelchair Accessible

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A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

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Jonathan D. Superhost

5 PM Doors & Pre-Reception
6 PM Performance
7:30 PM Post-Reception

Gocha Abuladze & Pavel Nersessian: Art Songs & Opera Arias

Gotham Arts in collaboration with Groupmuse is delighted to present an intimate private recital by baritone Gocha Abuladze and pianist Pavel Nersessian featuring art songs and opera arias in German, Italian, Russian, and Georgian.

Wine will be served.

Program:

Part I: Romantic & Lyrical Art Songs

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)

TCHAIKOVSKY "None But the Lonely Heart", Op. 6 No. 6

TCHAIKOVSKY "Amid the Din of the Ball", Op. 38 No. 3

RACHMANINOFF "I Opened the Window", Op. 63 No. 2

KVERNADZE "Flowers of Autumn"

LAGIDZE "You've Slipped Into Slumber"

LEKISHVILI "I Am Fond of All Those Loves"

Intermission

Part II: Operatic Arias & Dramatic Passages

TCHAIKOVSKY "I Love You" (Yeletsky's Aria from The Queen of Spades)

GIORDANO "Nemico della patria?" (Gérard's Aria from Andrea Chénier)

VERDI "Dio di Giuda!" (Nabbuco's Aria from Nabucco)

PALIASHVILI "O Wicked Soul" (Kiazo's Aria from Daisi)

RACHMANINOFF "Ves' tabor spit" (Aleko's Aria from Aleko)

GEORGIAN TRADITIONAL "They Are Late"

ROSSINI "Largo al factotum" (Figaro's Aria from The Barber of Seville)

About the Artists

Watch Gocha sing the Georgian folk song "They Are Late" in a music video for his album "Abuli"

About Gocha Abuladze

Gocha Abuladze, the accomplished Georgian opera singer, hails from Kutaisi, Georgia, where his lifelong love for music and singing blossomed from an early age. His mother served as his initial music teacher, nurturing his passion.

He embarked on his musical journey by graduating from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and later honed his skills in Italy under the tutelage of renowned masters. His dedication to perfecting his singing technique led him to study with luminaries like Montserrat Caballé, Willian Mateuzzi, Lella Cuberli, Vazha Chachava, and Nodar Andguladze.

Abuladze's talent has been widely recognized, with victories in over ten international competitions. Among these accolades, the "Magda Olivero" competition in Milan stands out, as well as the special "Ettore Bastianini" prize for best baritone.

His illustrious career in Europe saw him gracing the stages of esteemed opera theaters, including Arena di Verona, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto, Cagliari Theatre, Grange Park Opera in London, Montpelier Capitol Theatre, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, and many more. Across these venues, he portrayed 27 leading roles and garnered recognition in European and US press.

Abuladze's collaborations with distinguished artists such as Franco Zeffirelli, Hugo de Ana, Daniel Oren, Andrea Battistoni, Donato Renzetti, Marcus Bosch, Gustav Kuhn, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Michelangelo Mazza, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Leo Nucci, Anita Ratchvelishvili, and others enriched his artistic journey.

In 2014, he earned the title of the best singer of the season in Germany. Notably, his collaboration with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra produced his debut CD, "Un giorno di regno" by Giuseppe Verdi, which was broadcast live on Germany's Central Radio station and remains available in music shops throughout Europe.

Abuladze made a triumphant American debut with Carnegie Hall in New York in 2019. During the pandemic, he embarked on tours in Italy and Georgia. Additionally, he released a significant CD titled "Abuli," featuring Georgian romances in collaboration with Bravo Records.

In 2022, Gocha Abuladze relocated to the United States. His noteworthy benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on May 18, 2022, held on the Weill Recital Hall stage, aimed to support displaced Ukrainian women and children. This event was followed by a series of concerts throughout 2022.

His creative pursuits extend beyond singing, as he composes songs and continues to work on various compositions. Gocha Abuladze's musical journey is a testament to his dedication, talent, and commitment to both his art and humanitarian causes.

About Pavel Nersessian

“His performance brought a veritable roar of approval from the audience,” wrote the Irish Times, after Pavel Nersessian received the 1st Prize in the GPA Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991. Being one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation in Russia, he is known for his ability to play equally convincingly in the whole palette of the piano repertoire. He won prizes in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna in 1985, the Paloma O’Shea Competition in Santander, and the Tokyo Competition.

Nersessian was a pupil of the famous Central Music School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, where his teacher was Yu. Levin. Later he was a student of the Conservatoire under Prof. S. Dorensky. Upon graduating from the Conservatoire in 1987 with maximum marks he was invited to join the faculty.

Pavel Nersessian has been touring Russia and surrounding states from the age of eight, and has given performances in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Cannes, Leipzig, Vienna, Budapest, Madrid, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Dublin, Rio de Janeiro, Belgrade, Cairo, Kiev, Beijing and many other cities.

Mr. Nersessian, by special invitation from the Kirov and the Perm Ballet, performed solo part in Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial based on the music of Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto with performances in the Kirov, Bolshoi, Chatelet and Covent Garden. He also played a solo part in J. Robbins’ ballet “The concert, or The Perils of Everybody” on the music of F. Chopin.

He is known for his collaboration with chamber music groups and other musicians, such as Borodin and Glinka Quartets, National Symphony Orchestra in Russia, Thomas Sanderling, Tugan Sokhiev, Alexandr Chernushenko, Valeriy Polyansky, Mikhail Agrest, Pascal Moragues, Julius Milkis, Evgeny Petrov, Pavel Kogan, Abel Perreira, Benjamin Schmid, Stepan Yakovich, Ani Kavafian, Andrei Gridchuk, Alena Baeva, Zlatomir Fung, Filip Kopachevsky, Yana Ivanilova, Nina Kogan, Mikhail Bereznitsky, Maxim Emelyanychev, Diana Vishneva, Philippe Cassard, Alexandre Lazarev, Gaik Kazazyan, Lukas Geniushas, Richard Young, Valentin Uriupin, Itamar Zorman, and many others. He has recorded numerous disks with compositions of Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and he has given masterclasses in the USA, Russia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Korea, Brazil, and Japan.

In 2005 he became a merited artist of the Russian Federation.

For more than 25 years P. Nersessian has been assisting his teacher, professor S. Dorensky. He has worked with such talented pupils as N. Lugansky, D. Matsuev, V. Rudenko, O. Kern, A. Shtarkman, Yu. Stadler, I. Tasovats, F. Amirov, M. Amara, A. Dossin, V. Igoshina, A. Mamriev, V. Korchinskaya-Kogan, S. Simonian, Z. Chochieva, G. Chaidze, N. Pisareva, A. Sychev, F. Kopachevsky, P. Kolesnikov, A. Tarasevich-Nikolaev, L. Bernsdorf, P. Elisha, A. Malofeev, A, Kliuchko and many others.

Pavel Nersessian served as a jury member in many international piano competitions: Dublin, Hamamatsu, Sendai, Maria Canals in Barcelona, Hilton Head, Almaty, Valencia, Tbilisi and other competitions.

In 2013 he started to work as a professor of piano in Boston university, in 2022 as a professor of piano in New England Conservatory.

Recent recitals of Pavel Nersessian include chamber programs with violinists Kirsti Kuusk, Garry Levinson, Daniil Kogan as well as singers Ilya Silchukou and Julia Lezhneva.