Date & Time: Saturday October 16 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors/Students
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Health and Safety
In accordance with health and safety guidelines from the City and County of San Francisco, a face covering is required for all concerts at Incarnation Episcopal church and must be worn at all times. Face masks must completely cover nose and mouth and have ear loops or similar to hold in place. Gaiters and bandanas are not acceptable. Please click here for full details.
Program
Rachmaninoff: Preludes op 23 no 4, 5, 6.
Schubert – Liszt : Lieder “Gretchen am Spinnrade” and “Serenade”
Chopin: Ballade no 4.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Sonata no 4 op 56
About the Artist
Hailed by the New York Concert Review as “a sensitive player,” Liana Paniyeva has won prizes in numerous competitions internationally and has performed at festivals in Norway, Hungary, Austria, Canada, England, Italy, South Africa, and Israel. Her recitals have taken her to Carnegie Hall, legendary Worcester’s Mechanics Hall, the Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, to note highlights.
Ms. Paniyeva has been a prizewinner in numerous international competitions including: “Iowa International Piano Competition in 2015”, “George Gershwin International Competition in 2019,” Grand Prize at the “Metropolitan International Piano Competition”, “in Memory of E. Gilels,” “Music World” in Italy, the Cargill Foundation Prize in the 2014 Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow, prize in memory of Bracha Eden for a most impressive performance during the competition “The Voice of Music, Jerusalem.” Liana is a winner of the American Prize 2021. Her solo recital in 2016 at the Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago was broadcast live on WFMT Radio.
Reviewing her recording, Huntley Dent of Fanfare Magazine praised her version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an exhibition as “Paniyeva’s reading outshines many others in the catalog, including those by famous names.” A graduate of the Donetsk Music Academy in Ukraine, Ms. Paniyeva earned her Professional Studies Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music and an Artist Diploma from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford.
Ms. Paniyeva is a founder and artistic director of the Young Stars International Piano Competition.