"Music of Paris" with pianist Nicholas Susi

Described in The WholeNote as “an innovative musician and aggressive thinker with a gift for keyboard brilliance,” Dr. Nicholas Susi enjoys a multifaceted career living out his deep love of music. He recognizes that Classical music has been a transformative force in his life, and seeks to share its power with others through his teaching and performing. He has appeared as soloist in the concerti of Liszt with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City, Taneycomo Festival Orchestra, and Webster Symphony Orchestra, and he celebrated the composer’s bicentennial in 2011 with a series of performances of the complete Douze études d’exécution transcendante. In 2014, Susi advanced to the semifinals of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (Utrecht, The Netherlands) as one of two Americans selected worldwide to participate in this prestigious competition. Most recently, he made his debut as a published author in the 2020 edition of The Journal of the American Liszt Society. Dr. Susi is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina and is excited to make his Charlotte House Series debut.

The city of Paris has long been a center of culture for both French nationals and expatriates. The meeting of minds and sharing of ideas afforded by the City of Light resulted in a creative synergy that has yielded some of the best-loved artwork in European history. This program features diverse works of Paris written in a span of just three years (1911-1913), completed right before the outbreak of World War I.

To learn more about Dr. Susi, please visit www.charlottemusic.org/nicholas-susi

PROGRAM

Prelude in D-flat major – Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

​Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka – Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

I. Danse russe

II. Chez Pétrouchka

III. La semaine grasse

Preludes, Book II – Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

1. “…Brouillards”

2. “…Feuilles mortes”

3. “…La puerta del Vino”

4. “…Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses”

5. “…Bruyères”

6. “…Général Lavine – eccentric”

7. “…La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune”

8. “…Ondine”

9. “…Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq P.P.M.P.C.”

10. “…Canope”

11. “…Les tierces alternées”

12. “…Feux d’artifice”