Mine is Bigger Than Yours: A Friendly Battle of Piano Transcriptions New York Performances

Presented at Groupmuse NYC, *Mine is Bigger Than Yours: A Friendly Battle of Piano Transcriptions* treats rock and pop songs as raw material for virtuoso rearrangement. Pianists Ilya Shmukler Soukhovetski and Namoradze trade versions, turning familiar hooks into arguments about texture, rhythm, and scale at the keyboard. In New York’s long-running culture of salon concerts and genre-crossing recitals, the format reads like a live study in how repertoire gets remade. The friendly competition also exposes a serious question: what, exactly, counts as authorship once a song changes instruments.