MUSICAL LANDSCAPES

RIVKA NAHARI, PIANO

PROGRAM:

Waldszenen (Forest Scenes)………………………………………………………………………………………………Robert Schumann

1. Eintritt (Entrance)

2. Jager auf der Lauer (Hunter on the Look Out)

3. Einsame Blumen (Solitary Flowers)

4. Verrugene Stelle (Haunted Spot)

5. Freundliche Landschaft (Pleasant Landscape)

6. Herberge (At the Inn)

7. Vogel als Prophet (Bird as Prophet)

8. Jagdlied (Hunting Song)

9. Abschied (Farewell)

Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight Sonata)……………………………………………………………………………….Ludwig van Beethoven

1. Adagio sostenuto

2. Allegretto

3. Presto agitato

INTERMISSION

Les Cloches de Geneve……………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Franz Liszt

Les Jeux D’eau A La Villa D’este………………………………………………………………………………………………..Franz Liszt

Jeux D’eau…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Maurice Ravel

L’isle Joyeuse………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Claude Debussy

BIO

Rivka Nahari has had many years of training and performing experience in both music and dance.  She began playing piano at the age of 7 and was self-taught until the age of 14 when she began her piano studies with Muriel Adler. She continued her training as a piano major at UNLV and later at Juilliard in the Extension Division where she was a student of Assaff Weisman. She currently studies Vyacheslav Gryaznov and virtually with Nicolas Bringuier (Nice, France). Her performance venues have included Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Villa Favard (Florence, Italy), and the Gustav Mahler Cultural Center (Dobbiaco, Italy).

In addition to the piano, Rivka has been a professional harpist since she was 13 and played with numerous orchestras throughout Las Vegas. She was a voice major at Mannes College of Music in Manhattan and studied to be an opera singer for many years under world-renown vocal pedagogue Anthony Frisell. She is also an accomplished flute player who has played with the Flute Choir of New York as well as other chamber ensembles.

Rivka began her dance training at age 3 and got her foundation at the Academy of Nevada Dance Theater (now Nevada Ballet Theater). In addition to ballet, she has studied flamenco extensively as well as a variety of other dance forms. In 2008, she founded the Jewish Center for the Performing Arts in Brooklyn, NY where she has been providing a safe space for the orthodox Jewish community to study the performing arts at a high level. She has also been training in physiotherapy for dancers under the tutelage of Lisa Howell and now offers sessions in the Perfect Form method.