TCHEREPNIN SOCIETY NEWS AND EVENTS

Nikolai Tcherepnin Piano Music

NEW RELEASE Toccata Classics has just released a brand new recording of piano music by Nikolai Tcherepnin, brilliantly played by pianist David Witten. Rave reviews have appeared, including 3 excerpted below. This CD also includes color reproduction of 14 of the original Children’s Alphabet Book paintings by Alexandre Benois  which Tcherepnin chose to interpret, as well as informative written notes by Witten. Listen to samples and purchase at ToccataClassics.com or at Amazon.com. The Observer:  Nikolai Tcherepnin...is revealed in all his pianistic glory in these fascinating first recordings, from the lushly romantic early "Three Pieces", with their tinges of Chopin and Rachmaninov, to a charmingly original set of tone poems based on children's alphabet sketches... David Witten is entirely at home in the vivid imagery of "The Fisherman and the Fish" – all watery splashes and flashing sunlight. Enchanting stuff. - Stephen Pritchard Fanfare Magazine: David Witten unfailingly finds the right approach to each of these selections... an ability to capture the poetic moment Tcherepnin so plainly cherished...bright, forward, and lifelike. With excellent notes by the pianist, this is a disc that will hopefully generate not merely sales of itself, but interest in its seldom heard composer. - Barry Brenesal MusicWeb-International: On the evidence at least of this release, Tcherepnin's piano music...merits a place in every pianist's repertoire and on every music-lover's shelf.  -  Byzantion

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Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945)	Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977)	Ivan Tcherepnin (1943-1998)

THE TCHEREPNIN SOCIETY is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the music and aesthetic ideals of the Tcherepnin family's three generations of distinguished composers: Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) and Ivan Tcherepnin (1943-1998). Our particular model for activity is the multifaceted career that earned Alexander Tcherepnin the sobriquet "Musical Citizen of the World." A superlative composer, a lifelong pioneer in new musical techniques, and a dedicated educator, he was also an enthusiastic internationalist whose fascination with folk idioms brought him through Eurasian culture to China and Japan. It was to carry on these shared ideals that Alexander's widow Hsien Ming Tcherepnin (1911-1991) founded the Society. Under her leadership, the organization played an important role in re-normalizing musical contacts between China and the West after the disruptions of the Cultural Revolution. After her death, leadership passed to Ivan Tcherepnin, whose global interests as a composer and professor at Harvard University melded modern technology with a variety of near- and far-Eastern philosophical and aesthetic concerns.

Today the Tcherepnin Society continues to furnish financial and artistic support for concerts, new recordings and the reissue of important older recordings of music by the Tcherepnins, particularly of scores that suffer unjust neglect. We provide financing for scholarly books and articles that contribute to increased understanding of the Tcherepnins' artistry. We subsidize international concertizing by musicians who aim at Alexander and Ivan Tcherepnin's multicultural reach, and also underwrite educational travel and study programs that enable young musicians of all nations to immerse themselves in musical traditions radically different from those in their homelands.

Alexander Tcherepnin's view of music as a moral force that breaks down artificial barriers between peoples has a special relevance in our own troubled times. We invite you to help us in our efforts to keep these ideals alive and flourishing.

Contributions to The Tcherepnin Society, a 501 (c) (3) organization, are tax deductible.