Nicolas Namoradze : Composition
COMPOSER / PIANO
ORCHESTRAL
“Gravity” Concerto for Double Bass and String Ensemble (2016) 12’
(Double Bass soloist + 2/2/2/2)
Commissioned by and premiered at the Chelsea Music Festival (NYC), June 15, 2016
Notturno for Piano and Orchestra (2015) 12’
(Piano soloist + 3/3/2/2/1)
Premiered at The Juilliard School, April 21, 2015
CHAMBER
Corrente for Triple Quartet (2018) 11’
(String Quartet, Saxophone Quartet and SATB Vocal Quartet)
Commissioned by the Chelsea Music Festival, premiere date June 11, 2018
Sonata for Violin and Piano (2018) 9’
Commissioned by Tessa Lark
Partita for Keyboard Ensemble (2016) 15’
(Clavichord, Harpsichord, Organ, Piano, Toy Piano)
Commissioned by and premiered at the Chelsea Music Festival, June 17, 2016
Theme and Variation for Violin and Piano (2015) 5’
Commissioned by Tessa Lark, premiered at The Juilliard School, December 4, 2015
Transformations for String Quartet (2015) 8’
Commissioned by and premiered at the Chelsea Music Festival, June 15, 2015
Suite in C for Woodwind Quartet (2014) 9’
(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon)
Premiered at The Juilliard School, April 16, 2014
SOLO PIANO
Memories of Rachmaninoff’s “Georgian Song” (2022) 5′
Premiered at the Bella Concert Hall, Calgary, October 25, 2022
Rachmaninoff: Adagio from Symphony No. 2 Op. 27 — arrangement for solo piano (2021) 15′
While adhering strictly to the thematic and harmonic material of the original, this arrangement is less a strict transcription and more a reimagining of the movement for the piano, taking a generally liberal approach with reworking the textures in order to create a pianistically idiomatic piece. The piano writing is informed both by Rachmaninoff’s compositional style as well as my own approach to keyboard texture.
Premiered at Portland Piano International, Portland, April 2, 2022
Etude VI: Double Notes (2019) 2’
Premiered at the Honens Festival, Calgary, September 5, 2019
Etude V: Entwined Threads (2019) 3’
Premiered at the Honens Festival, Calgary, September 5, 2019
Moon, Refracted: A Variation on Rentarō Taki’s “Kōjō no Tsuki” (2019) 4′
For my recitals in Japan I wrote a little piece — a kind of reflection on a well-known Japanese song, “Kojo No Tsuki” (“Moon over the Ruined Castle”) by Rentaro Taki — to play as an encore. The piece is called “Moon, Refracted”, and it is set in a theme-and-variation form, first plainly presenting Taki’s melody before my own variation. It’s a sparse, meditative work in which I try to capture both the special atmosphere of this song as well as something of the concept of “wabi-sabi” in Japanese aesthetics.
Premiered at the Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, June 9, 2019
Etude IV: Broken Chords (2018) 2’
Premiered at the Metropolis Ensemble Series, NYC, March 30, 2019
Arabesque (2018) 9’
Premiered at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, February 10, 2019
Etude III: Moving Mirrors (2017) 2’
Premiered at October Hall, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), January 11, 2018
Etude II: Mostly Triads (2017) 2’
Premiered at Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College (NYC) March 21, 2017
Etude I: Major Scales (2015) 2’
Premiered at the Bravo! Vail Festival (Vail, Colorado), July 2, 2016
Chorale Variations (2014) 6’
Premiered at the Chelsea Music Festival, June 14, 2015
Georgian Chorales and Postludes (2014) 14’
Premiered at the Telavi Music Festival (Tsinandali, Georgia), September 25, 2019
MUSIC FOR FILM
Le chant des étoiles (2022)
Dir. Fabienne Verdier, Martin Baizeau, Ned Burgess, Grégoire Pontécaille, prod. atelier Fabienne Verdier
For Ryan (2020)
dir. Jared Houseman, prod. Manor House Productions
Nuit d’Opéra à Aix (2017)
Dir. Martin Baizeau, prod. Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Walking Painting (2016)
Dir. Fabienne Verdier, prod. atelier Fabienne Verdier
ELECTROACOUSTIC
“An Unlikely Friendship” for Voice, Harpsichord and Electronics (2016) 4’
Premiered at the CUNY Graduate Center, May 25, 2016
“eau” for Cello and Electronics (2016) 6’
Premiered at the OSA Archives, Budapest, Hungary, April 28, 2016
“entre ciel et terre” for Cello and Electronics (2014) 4’
Premiered at The Juilliard School, December 4, 2014
ELECTRONIC
“Bell Fields” – audiovisual work with digital animator Kati Vilim (2016) 9’
Premiered at the CUNY Graduate Center, November 16, 2016
Spiele im Spiegel (2015) 5’
Premiered at the CUNY Graduate Center, November 19, 2015
Three Overtunes (2015) 15’
Premiered at the CUNY Graduate Center, November 19, 2015