Piano Duo Evening
Acclaimed pianists Sergei Glavatskih and Noah Alden Hardaway present a special piano duo performance in partnership with Arts for Rural Texas and the Fayetteville Community Center & Performance Theater.
The duo will take the stage at the Fayetteville Community Center & Performance Theater on Thursday, August 20. Doors will open at 6:30 PM, followed by the performance at 7:00 PM. This program, titled War & Peace, includes pieces by Holst, Stravinsky, Copland, and Beethoven.
It is a privilege and and honor to have both of these talented pianists performing in our community. Don’t miss out on this exclusive evening and reserve tickets today!
Tickets
Seating is limited and ticket reservations are required. Please complete ticket reservations and donation transactions separately.
General Admission (FREE): includes a guaranteed seat and complimentary beverages.
Second Row VIP ($30): includes a guaranteed second row seat, complimentary beverages, and access to the champagne reception with the artists after the performance.
First Row VIP ($50): includes a guaranteed front row seat, complimentary beverages, and access to the champagne reception with the artists after the performance.
For questions or more information, please email Allyson Hoffmann at artists@artsforruraltexas.org or call (979) 378-2113.
General Admission tickets include a guaranteed seat.
VIP Tickets include guaranteed front row or second row seating and access to the champagne reception with the artists after the performance.
Donations
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The Artists
Sergei Glavatskih
Sergei Glavatskih is an heir to the great Neuhaus piano tradition. A student of Evgeny Malinin and long-time assistant of Vera Gornostaeva, Glavatskih continues the school of Heinrich Neuhaus. As part of his energetic and devoted work at Moscow Conservatory, both as a professor and assistant, he taught winners of the world’s most important piano competitions, including first-prize winners of the Van Cliburn, Sydney, and Dubai competitions, laureates of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and many others.
Glavatskih regularly holds master classes. Internationally, these classes have been held at Taipei University (Taiwan), at the International Academy named after Evgeny Malinin in Kassel (Germany), at Lynn University near Miami (USA), among others. As faculty member in the program "Yuri Bashmet - To Young Talents of Russia,” he constantly gives master classes and concerts in both major and outlying cities of Russia and the former USSR. He serves as a jury member for national competitions in Russia and also internationally.
He performs numerous solo, chamber and symphony concerts in Moscow, other cities of Russia, as well as in various countries of the near and far abroad, including tours of Finland, Yugoslavia, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Malaysia. He has broad experience as a concerto soloist and performed with major orchestras, including the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, The State Cinematography Orchestra of Russia, Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Novosibirsk State Opera Orchestra, JNA Symphony Orchestra (Belgrade), Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra (Tokyo), the Le Havre and Montbelliard symphony orchestras (France), and the Estonian State Orchestra (Tallinn). He has recorded with the State Bolshoi Opera Theatre Orchestra. Glavatskih has been soloist of the Moscow Academic Philharmonic since 1994.
He is also a dedicated chamber musician. Among Glavatskih's partners are such musicians as violinists Alexander Trostyansky, cellist Alexander Rudin, and pianist Mikhail Lidsky. Since 2008, he has been a permanent member of the soloist ensemble "New Trio" (together with violinist Dmitry German and cellist Oleg Bugayev).
Born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in 1970, Sergei Glavatskih began studying music at the age of seven with L. Raitsyna and later studied at the Special Music School of the Ural Conservatory under M. Olle. In 1988 he became a laureate of the All-Union Competition in Tbilisi and subsequently entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Malinin’s class, graduating in 1993 and completing his postgraduate studies in 1995.
He is a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Emil Hajek Memorial (Belgrade, 1990), the First Rachmaninov International Competition (Moscow, 1993), the Eduard Flipse Competition (Rotterdam, 1996), and the piano competitions in Epinal (France, 1997) and Porto (Portugal, 1997). Additional awards include prizes for the best performance of Beethoven as well as for contemporary music.
Glavatskih has taught at the Moscow Conservatory since 1999. His first position was as an assistant to Elena Richter (formerly a student of Heinrich Neuhaus and assistant of Stanislav Neuhaus), then for over a decade he served as assistant to Vera Gornostaeva at the department she headed. After several years as Associate Professor, in 2026 he was promoted to the rank of full professor.
Noah Alden Hardaway
Hailed as “ter-RIFF-ic!” by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and “a technically gifted young virtuoso” (Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, PA), pianist Noah Alden Hardaway is forging a multifaceted career as far afield as Spain, Sardinia, and Lithuania, as well as Canada and the United States. Enthusiastic reception for Noah’s appearances has led to frequent reengagements. He is a regular on the festival circuit, appearing at over a dozen including Pianofest in the Hamptons, Art of the Piano in Cincinnati, and two summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he performed as soloist with the Aspen Sinfonia Concertante.
In recent seasons, Noah gave his Philadelphia debut, won 1st prize at the Mary Graham Lasley Scholarship Competition (Alexandria Symphony Orchestra), and received the Outstanding Performance in Piano Award from Shenandoah University. In May 2023 he made his debut as conductor-pianist, and in 2025 gave a sold-out performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 after winning 1st prize at Shenandoah’s Student Soloist Competition. He has also been a finalist in the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition and the Frances Walton Competition in Seattle.
Noah has performed on WUSF 89.7 FM and appeared in the Houston Chronicle as well as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Winchester Star, and Texas Signal. He has given concerts and lecture-recitals in seven U.S. states and online via livestream. He frequently performs in and around Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the Ryuji Ueno Foundation and recently completed a recital and masterclass residency at Washington and Lee University.
An avid chamber musician, Noah has given concert tours with Louisiana Philharmonic Assistant Principal cellist Daniel Lelchuk, Hong Kong-based pianist Shelley Ng, and Byron Jones, Professor of Voice at Shenandoah University. In 2023 Noah joined forces with violinist Emily Ilyes and cellist Isabel Dimoff to form ein trio.
Since 2020, Noah has worked at tonebase, a startup company producing innovative and high-quality teaching videos featuring the world’s top musicians. He serves as Piano Events Director and faculty at their two-week piano festivals and workshops in Vermont, Los Angeles, and Manhattan. He is passionate about curating unconventional projects, including assembling large-scale collaborative ventures, hosting radio programs, and leading interdisciplinary performances. At Shenandoah University’s inaugural ShenCoLAB, Noah received a grant to direct and perform in the Virginia premiere of Schnittke/Kandinsky’s Der gelbe Klang (The yellow sound).
Noah is highly engaged in artistic planning for renowned summer festivals, serving as Assistant to the Director and Chairman at Pianofest in the Hamptons and formerly as Board Secretary and Chair of Program Development at the Adamant Music School in Vermont.
Since 2014, Noah has studied intensively with Moscow Conservatory artists Vadym Kholodenko, Sergei Glavatskih, and Pavel Nersessian, and his senior thesis is the first English-language exploration of Vera Gornostaeva’s life and work. This transformative approach to the art of teaching is in the grand tradition of Heinrich Neuhaus, whose profound use of metaphor and gesture is the topic of Noah’s doctoral dissertation. Noah graduated magna cum laude from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, with Distinction in Research and Creative Works. Legendary Irish pianist and Beethoven interpreter John O’Conor has been a mentor since 2012; after completing a master’s degree with him in 2021, in 2024 Noah completed his doctorate with Dr. O’Conor at Shenandoah University as a full scholarship recipient.