Nikolai Valov

 
 

I was raised in the Western Australian city of Perth and commenced piano lessons with Inna Fursa, a distinguished pedagogue from Russia, shortly after I turned eleven. Lessons with Inna brought me into contact with all varieties of music, including the musical masterpieces of many composers from the former Soviet Union; not only the greats, such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich, but also composers whose names and music remain sadly obscure in the literature. I regularly performed in recitals hosted or sponsored by my high-school, All Saints’ College, and developed a vested interest in composition. Perhaps as a result of early contact with their music, I have also developed a particular interest in the musical style of composers from the former Soviet Union, and my own compositions often showcase clear influences of those composers. After graduating high-school  I took a semester of college at the University of Western Australia, majoring in composition as I continued my piano lessons with Inna, then in September of 2011 my family and I relocated to the United States.  I enrolled in a Bachelor of Music degree with

concentrations in composition and piano performance at the University of Oregon and am privileged to be under the tutelage of  Dr. Alexandre Dossin.

 

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Name: Nikolai Valov

Birthday: may 22nd

Hometown: Adelaide, Australia



repertoire 2013/2014




Piano Sonata, K. 457

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Toccata, Op. 24

-Aram Khachaturian

Poeme, Op. 12

-Aram Khachaturian

Invocation

- Franz Liszt

Etudes d'execution transcendante no. 11 "Harmonies du Soir"

- Franz Liszt

Prelude Op 32/10

- Sergei Rachmaninoff

Ciclo Brasileiro

- Heitor Villa-Lobos



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Quote:

A good composer does not imitate, he steals.

- Igor Stravinsky

I am a concert pianist. That's just a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

- Oscar Levant

New Reading: Anna Goldsworthy - Piano Lessons

Peter Goldsworthy - Maestro

Remarque - Im Westen Nichts Neues

Musicians: Aram Khachaturian

Dmitri Shostakovich

Sergei Prokofiev

Franz Liszt

Frederic Chopin

Igor Stravinsky

Dmitri Kabalevsky

German Galynin

Nikolai Roslavets

Evgeny Golubev

Loris Tjeknavorian

Rodion Schedrin

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Lyapunov



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