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SUMMARY:Chelsea de Souza\, piano
DESCRIPTION:The Silk Road \nA Tale of Musical Trade between East and West\n
 A lecture recital\nChelsea de Souza\, piano\n\nIn a programme of Claude De
 bussy: Pagodes from Estampes\, Reflets dans l’eau from Images Bk. I\, To
 ru Takemitsu: Rain-Tree Sketch\, Frédéric Chopin: Preludes Op. 28\, Nos.
  15 (Raindrop) and 16\, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: In the Hothouse and Re
 ena Esmail: Rang de Basant\n\nKnown for her dynamic artistry and thought-p
 rovoking recital programming\, Indian pianist Chelsea de Souza is a Steinw
 ay Young Artist equally at home in the worlds of traditional and new music
 .  Described as “fierce and focused” (rediff)\, with “an alluring s
 tage presence” (The Hindu)\, she has appeared in concert as a soloist an
 d chamber musician across the US\, Belgium\, France\, Germany and India\, 
 and performed live on NBC TV and Kansas Public Radio. 2022-23 season highl
 ights include recitals for Minnesota Orchestra’s summer season\, Houston
  Methodist’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine\, the Museum of Fine Ar
 ts\, the Menil Collection and Cypress Creek FACE\; performances with New Y
 ork City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck for Artists at the Center\; pr
 esentations at the 2023 National Opera Association Conference\; and a comm
 issioning Project Grant from New Music USA and the world premiere of a new
  work by composer Nicky Sohn.\n\nA consummate chamber musician as well\, C
 helsea has performed at La Jolla Summerfest and as a Young Artist Fellow w
 ith the DACAMERA Chamber Music and Jazz Series in Houston. She has collabo
 rated with award-winning groups “Alarm Will Sound” and the River Oaks 
 Chamber Orchestra\, and the contemporary ensembles at Oberlin Conservatory
 \, the Peabody Institute and the Shepherd School. A committed performer of
  music by living composers\, she has commissioned and premiered numerous w
 orks for solo piano and small ensemble at museums\, colleges and festivals
  across the US. Together with her sister\, soprano and pianist Chloe de So
 uza\, she has given recital and masterclass tours across several cities in
  India.\n\nGrowing up in Mumbai\, Chelsea’s musical roots were grounded 
 in a blend of western classical and popular styles. Now she strives to exp
 lore issues of identity and culture in her performances through her versat
 ile\, genre-defying artistry. She was part of Oberlin’s Performance and 
 Improvisation Series exploring jazz and world music for two years\, includ
 ing a Young Artist Residency with the Detroit String and Wind Society and 
 performances at Cleveland Orchestra’s Severance Hall. She currently tour
 s with Dr. Jolie Rocke with their one singer-one pianist production of “
 Singing Herstory”\, which pays homage to fourteen pioneering female Afri
 can-American performers.\n\nChelsea draws inspiration from the diverse art
 ists she has worked with\, including classical greats such as Leon Fleishe
 r\, Andras Schiff and Richard Goode\, Grammy-award winning popular groups 
 like the Punch Brothers and Snarky Puppy\, and international musicians lik
 e Israeli jazz pianist-composer Alon Yavnai and Palestinian-American oud p
 layer Simon Shaheen. Her recent grant from New Music USA for her project 
 “Blurred Origins: Redefining Culture through Music” funds the commissi
 on of a new work for cello and piano that refocuses discussions of culture
  around the individual\, with particular emphasis on Asian-American voices
 . A singer as well\, Chelsea was co-director of Oberlin’s longest-runnin
 g all-female a cappella group ‘Nothing But Treble’.\n\nA finalist of t
 he 2021 Concert Artists Guild Emerging Artist Competition\, Chelsea has wo
 n four All-India piano competitions\, the IIYM International Piano Competi
 tion\, the Oberlin Concerto Competition\, the Global Scholar-Education Wor
 ld Young Achievers Award in Music and Arts\, and second prizes at the 2020
  Young Texas Artists and the 2019 Cranbrook Music Guild Emerging Artist co
 mpetitions. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Politics and in Piano Perfor
 mance and Vocal Accompanying from Oberlin College and Conservatory\, where
  she studied with Peter Takàcs\, and a Master’s degree from the Peabody
  Institute of Music with Boris Slutsky. She is now pursuing her doctorate 
 at the Shepherd School of Rice University with Jon Kimura Parker\, where s
 he also teaches classes in music theory and hybrid music of the Indian dia
 spora. In her spare time\, Chelsea loves exploring cultures through experi
 menting in the kitchen\, just as she does at the piano.\n\n
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LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India
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