BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1512@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20200112T130000Z DTEND:20200112T130000Z DTSTAMP:20200108T172629Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/anuvrat-choudhary-piano-and-samyuktha-r- violin/ SUMMARY:Anuvrat Choudhary\, Samyuktha R. and Assel Dautpayeva DESCRIPTION:Anuvrat Choudhary\, piano\; Samyuktha R.\, violin and Assel Dau tpayeva\, piano accompanist - Prize winners of Olga and Jules Craen Founda tion\n\nIn association with Olga and Jules Craen Foundation\n\nIn a progra mme of Bach: Partita No. 2 BWV 1004\; John Field: Nocturne No. 4 in A majo r\; Lizst: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6\; Scarlatti: Sonata K 141\; Beethoven: Sonata Op. 57 'Appassionata'\; Beethoven: Romanze and Massenet: Thaïs Me ditation\n\n20-year old pianist\, Anuvrat Choudhary believes that the pian o provides the most complete musical experience\, because it encompasses i n its repertoire the greatest works of Western art music through the centu ries.\n\nIn the last ten years\, under the tutelage of Ms. Priya Chaturved i\, former Director of Music at The Doon School\, and currently Academic C onsultant for Trinity College London- India\, he has had rigorous training in piano performance and has achieved a Distinction in the Licentiate lev el 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.\n\nMo st recently (Oct 31st)\, he was selected as a finalist at the Brillante Na galand piano festival\, an all India piano competition\, where he was adju dged first runner up. During the summer of 2019\, he attended an advanced pianist’s course at the Finchcocks Residency in UK under the eminent pia no pedagogues\, Graham Fitch and Penelope Roskell.\n\nHe has many solo per formances 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 Calcu tta Schools of Music.\n\nHe has also explored his great interest in conduc ting 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 I nternational Baccalaureate’s Diploma programme\, on Lizst’s piano tran scriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies\, received the highest grading.\n\n 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 do ing 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 musi c academies\, Lorraine Music Academy and One World College of Music\, in G urgaon\, India.\n\nSince 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 performan ce through concerts and examinations. He has also begun preparing for his Fellowship Diploma from Trinity College London (FTCL)\, in addition to stu dying for an LMus degree with the goal of attaining a holistic musical tra ining that includes performance as well as academic study.\n\n15-year old Samyuktha R. is an 11th Grader at the Besant Arundale Senior Secondary Sch ool also studying Music\, Dance and Art at the Kalakshetra Foundation\, Ch ennai. She completed her Trinity College London Licentiate exam with a Dis tinction and is the joint recipient of the Olga &\; Jules Craen Foundat ion’s “Young Musician of the Year – 2019” award.\n\nShe is the 6th generation from a family of legendary Carnatic music violinists\, notably Thiukodikaval Krishna Iyer and Semmangudi Narayanaswamy Iyer. Since the a ge of 10\, Samyuktha has participated at various talent-spotting competiti ons and has given recitals at various music fora. She has performed with t he Indian National Youth Orchestra\, the Madras Musical Association and wi th Oscar Award Winner A.R. Rahman's music ensemble. Samyuktha was invited to perform alongwith The South Asian Symphony Orchestra\, a humanitarian p roject aimed at using the platform of orchestral music to promote peace an d mutual understanding in the region of South Asia. She enjoys composing a nd has written and performed some of her own music too. She has attended m aster classes with Professor Nic Pendlebury (Head of Strings) and with Lan a Trotovesk at Trinity Laban Conservatory. Through The OJCF she attended t he International Menuhin Music Academy and had masterclasses with Renaud C apucon and Oleg Kaskiv.\n\nSamyuktha’s objective is to become an acclaim ed solo violinist on the global arena in the field of Western Classical Mu sic. She will be accompanied on the piano by Assel Dautpayeva.\n\nAssel Da utpayeva was born in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. She graduated from the specializ ed school for gifted children named after Kulyash Baiseitova\, and from th e Almaty State Conservatory named after Kurmangazy. Assel Dautpayeva is al so a Laureate of the piano competition in Druskininkai\, Lithuania.\n\nFro m 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).\nIn 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.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2019/12/S-and-Acrop.jpg CATEGORIES:Violin and piano recitals LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India GEO:18.5198845;73.87824479999995 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.51 98845,73.87824479999995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR