Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/Jan/2020
Genre - Violin and piano recitals
Anuvrat Choudhary, piano; Samyuktha R., violin and Assel Dautpayeva, piano accompanist – Prize winners of Olga and Jules Craen Foundation
In association with Olga and Jules Craen Foundation
In a programme of Bach: Partita No. 2 BWV 1004; John Field: Nocturne No. 4 in A major; Lizst: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6; Scarlatti: Sonata K 141; Beethoven: Sonata Op. 57 ‘Appassionata‘; Beethoven: Romanze and Massenet: Thaïs Meditation
20-year old pianist, Anuvrat Choudhary believes that the piano provides the most complete musical experience, because it encompasses in its repertoire the greatest works of Western art music through the centuries.
In the last ten years, under the tutelage of Ms. Priya Chaturvedi, former Director of Music at The Doon School, and currently Academic Consultant for Trinity College London- India, he has had rigorous training in piano performance and has achieved a Distinction in the Licentiate level Diploma in the Trinity College London examination (equivalent to a BMus in Performance). He is the recipient of Olga and Jules Craen Foundation’s ‘Young Musician of the Year – 2019’ national level award.
Most recently (Oct 31st), he was selected as a finalist at the Brillante Nagaland piano festival, an all India piano competition, where he was adjudged first runner up. During the summer of 2019, he attended an advanced pianist’s course at the Finchcocks Residency in UK under the eminent piano pedagogues, Graham Fitch and Penelope Roskell.
He has many solo performances to his credit, notably at NCPA’s Tata Experimental Theatre in Mumbai, the India International Centre in Delhi, in Trivandrum, hosted by the Trivandrum Centre for Performing Arts, and at the Delhi and Calcutta Schools of Music.
He has also explored his great interest in conducting and in arranging music for orchestral performance at The Doon School’s annual concert, and intramural events. The academic nature of music also enthuses him, and his high school diploma dissertation, under the International Baccalaureate’s Diploma programme, on Lizst’s piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies, received the highest grading.
He loves to share his passion for his instrument and for music, and finds the concert stage and teaching young musicians the ideal platforms for doing so. He has been training younger musicians both at his school and his university for the past five years, and has taught at two specialist music academies, Lorraine Music Academy and One World College of Music, in Gurgaon, India.
Since completing his IB Diploma at The Doon School, he has been studying Philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of music, at Ashoka University, while simultaneously working on his piano performance through concerts and examinations. He has also begun preparing for his Fellowship Diploma from Trinity College London (FTCL), in addition to studying for an LMus degree with the goal of attaining a holistic musical training that includes performance as well as academic study.
15-year old Samyuktha R. is an 11th Grader at the Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School also studying Music, Dance and Art at the Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai. She completed her Trinity College London Licentiate exam with a Distinction and is the joint recipient of the Olga & Jules Craen Foundation’s “Young Musician of the Year – 2019” award.
She is the 6th generation from a family of legendary Carnatic music violinists, notably Thiukodikaval Krishna Iyer and Semmangudi Narayanaswamy Iyer. Since the age of 10, Samyuktha has participated at various talent-spotting competitions and has given recitals at various music fora. She has performed with the Indian National Youth Orchestra, the Madras Musical Association and with Oscar Award Winner A.R. Rahman’s music ensemble. Samyuktha was invited to perform alongwith The South Asian Symphony Orchestra, a humanitarian project aimed at using the platform of orchestral music to promote peace and mutual understanding in the region of South Asia. She enjoys composing and has written and performed some of her own music too. She has attended master classes with Professor Nic Pendlebury (Head of Strings) and with Lana Trotovesk at Trinity Laban Conservatory. Through The OJCF she attended the International Menuhin Music Academy and had masterclasses with Renaud Capucon and Oleg Kaskiv.
Samyuktha’s objective is to become an acclaimed solo violinist on the global arena in the field of Western Classical Music. She will be accompanied on the piano by Assel Dautpayeva.
Assel Dautpayeva was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from the specialized school for gifted children named after Kulyash Baiseitova, and from the Almaty State Conservatory named after Kurmangazy. Assel Dautpayeva is also a Laureate of the piano competition in Druskininkai, Lithuania.
From 2001 she taught at the school for gifted children and on coming to India in 2015 has been working as a pianist at The Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI).
In 2018, she took part in a solo program at the Piano Day Concert Festival and has performed as the pianist with the SOI Chamber Orchestra at the Jamshed Bhabha, the Tata and the Experimental Theatres at the NCPA, as also at the Prithvi Theatre at Juhu, Mumbai.
