Nicolas Namoradze, Piano at 92nd street Y

Winner of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, Nicolas Namoradze, whose performances have been hailed as sparkling sensitive and coloristic by the New York Times, makes his 92Y debut in a program of studies for pianoworks designed to test the technique and endurance of the performer.York Bowens fiendish Twelve Studies, testing such pianistic qualities as forearm rotation and lateral freedom of hand and arm, give way to Alexander Scriabins Eight tudes, with their restless rhythmic invention and occasional moments of Brahmsian lyricism. Finally, Namoradze performs some of his own tudes, a set of relentlessly inventive works which prompted pianist Emanuel Ax to declare Namoradze extraordinary.