Category: Recital

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert You are invited to a private recital by the young Taiwanese pianist Han Chen in our home in New York City. Han, a noted interpreter of György Ligeti’s piano etudes, had a highly acclaimed and sold-out show at the National Sawdust last fall, called “Infinite… Continue reading Han Chen – Saturday, May 18, 2024

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert You are invited to a private recital by pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze in our home in New York City. Just last month, Nicolas had a whirlwind European tour, jumping in for Yefim Bronfman for a series of concerts of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2… Continue reading Nicolas Namoradze – Saturday, April 27, 2024

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert You are invited to a private recital by acclaimed Russian pianist and arranger Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Slava as known to his friends) in our home in New York City. Slava has been one of the series’ favorites and we are delighted to have him back. He… Continue reading Vyacheslav Gryaznov – Friday, March 15, 2024

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert We are thrilled to have Mikhail Voskresensky, one of the most famous Russian pianists of our time, back to Lilacs for an intimate evening of piano, drinks, and dessert. As the Moscow Conservatory’s chair of the piano department for many decades, Mr. Voskresensky trained many… Continue reading Mikhail Voskresensky – Thursday, February 29, 2024

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert You are invited to a private recital by the Spanish/Dutch pianist Albert Cano Smit in our home in New York City. Since his last performance — a huge success — at the Lilacs Recital 2 years ago, Albert completed his Artist Diploma at the Juilliard… Continue reading Albert Cano Smit – Saturday, January 13, 2024

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert You are invited to a private recital by the celebrated and award-winning pianist Anthony Ratinov in our home in New York City. He is the recent winner of the 2nd Prize at the prestigious 64th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, where his performance of Prokofiev’s… Continue reading Anthony Ratinov – Saturday, December 9, 2023

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert We welcome back Zitong Wang. As part of our Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday celebration back in April, Zitong delighted us with a contemplative and soulful performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2. Now, Zitong is back performing a solo recital for us of Chopin, Janáček and… Continue reading Zitong Wang – Saturday, November 4, 2023

An intimate evening of world-class classical piano, drinks, and dessert To start off our 2023-2024 season, we have a special performance from the highly acclaimed Sergey Belyavksy, whom I had the luck of seeing performing live in Provence a few weeks ago. He was the opening act of this year’s Liszt en Provence festival that… Continue reading Sergey Belyavsky – Saturday, September 30, 2023