Program
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414 (Arr. for Piano & String Quartet)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo à la Mazur in F major, Op. 5
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 (Arr. for Piano & String Quartet)
Praised for her "rich and resonant sound" (The New York Sun) and her ability to "make music speak" (The Colorado Springs Gazette), Ukrainian-American pianist Angelina Gadeliya leads a rich musical life as a soloist, chamber musician, new music expert, and educator. Her work with the NYC-based Decoda ensemble has frequently brought her to the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School, as well as to Germany, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, Princeton University, Vassar College, Skidmore College, the Trinity Wall Street series, and various New York locales. Ms. Gadeliya’s recent performances also include solo and chamber music recitals in such venues as New York’s Alice Tully Hall, the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, and in prestigious concert halls of Canada, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Ukraine.
In April of 2023 she gave three world premieres of important new chamber works in a program titled “Transformations” with her Decoda Ensemble in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.
Her festival affiliations include her new summer piano program in Croatia- UConn Piano Sessions in Dubrovnik, the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival, the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, and she has also appeared at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Embassy Series in Washington D.C., the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Germany, the Dakota Sky International Piano Festival, the Beethoven Master Course in Positano, Italy, the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, the Reynosa International Piano Festival in Mexico, the Metropolitan Museum of Art lecture series, and the 2007 Emerson String Quartet's Beethoven Project at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Gadeliya has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Fort Worth Symphony, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Colorado Springs Chamber Orchestra, the Stony Brook Symphony, and was featured with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra last season in Kenneth Fuchs’ piano concerto, “Spiritualist.”
Ms. Gadeliya serves as Artistic Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Connecticut and has been the Assistant Professor in Residence of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs since 2016. Her current and former students include prizewinners in international and national competitions, and some serve on piano faculties at schools such as Mannes Prep in NYC, The Hartt School’s Community Division, and Colby College.
A passionate advocate of new music, Ms. Gadeliya has given numerous premiers of new works and has worked closely with composers Frederic Rzewski, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Richard Danielpour, Richard Wilson, John Adams, Thomas Adès, Steve Reich, Steven Mackey, Daniel Bjarnason, and John Harbison, among others. She has two upcoming new album releases - The Celestial Circus: Piano Music of Richard Danielpour and an album of early solo and chamber works by Chopin and Maria Szymanowska. She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School, Mannes College, and has a doctorate from Stony Brook University. Her principal mentors include Angela Cheng, Pavlina Dokovska, and Gilbert Kalish.
Ms. Gadeliya currently resides in Glastonbury, CT with her husband Misha and their three children, Felix, Anastasia, and Luke.