Nikolai Valov
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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