CONCERT PROGRAMS
I love creating concert programs with a story line going on behind each song and aria.
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in any of these programs being performed at your venue or event.
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From Opera to Broadway
A Journey Through Song
a program for Soprano and Piano
Experience an enchanting evening of timeless melodies, spanning the elegance of Baroque and Classical masterpieces to the passion of Romantic favourites and the sparkle of musical theatre. Featuring beloved arias and art songs by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky, alongside cherished songs by Bernstein, Rodgers, Loewe, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, this captivating program celebrates the beauty, romance, and drama of the human voice and virtuosic piano performance.
Rejoice!!!
a program for Soprano and Piano
This program brings together a festive selection of beautiful classical, sacred and traditional Christmas music. It features uplifting arias from Handel’s Messiah, including Rejoice Greatly and How Beautiful Are the Feet, alongside Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus and several settings of Ave Maria. The second half includes much-loved Christmas favourites such as Silent Night, O Holy Night
Love Songs
a program for Soprano and Piano
A beautiful program of our favourite love songs and arias by Robert and Clara Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Over The Quiet Waters…
a program for Soprano and Piano
A beautiful recital enchanting you with songs about rivers, canals and bays, lotuses, boats and mermaids that stir up memories, passions, dreams and hopes...
The program includes art song and opera arias by Horace Keats, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonín Dvořák, Mikhail Glinka, Franz Schubert and a new art song by John Martin!
Made in Heaven
a program for Soprano and Piano
A reflective program of classical vocal music about Heaven, soul, finding harmony and uniting with nature featuring art songs and arias by Faure, Richard Strauss, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and more...
Dreaming of Spring
a program for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano
In this program, we are dreaming of Spring in nature and the Spring of our lives, bringing together songs by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Clara Schumann, Brahms, Cantaloube and finishing the evening with Schubert's "Shepherd on the rock".
Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff.
Rimsky-Korsakov
a program for Soprano and Piano
An exquisite selection of art songs and opera arias by the three most iconic Russisn composers.
Conversations
a program for Soprano, Cello and Piano
An elegant program of classical music for voice, piano and cello featuring art songs by Faure, Schumann, Borodin, Shostakovich and Villa-Lobos.
Happy Birthday, Clara!
Natalia Melnik (soprano), Alex Parkmen (piano), Leo Novikov (violin), TopAct (promotion)
In this program, we are celebrating the life and art of a virtuosic concert pianist, composer, editor, pedagogue and an amazingly strong and talented woman - Clara Schumann. We are telling the story of her life, reading fragments from her letters and diaries and, of course, performing her compositions.
Moscow Nights
a program for Soprano and Piano
Enjoy the atmosphere of a Russian usad'ba with a heartfelt selection of art songs by Glinka, Alyab'yev, Gurilyov, Varlamov and other Russian composers