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SUMMARY:Chelsea de Souza\, piano
DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Bach: Sheep may safely graze (arr. Petri)\, B
 eethoven: Sonata Op. 110\; Scriabin: Sonata No. 4\; Liszt: Ballade No. 2\;
  Ravel: Sonatine and Franck: Prelude\, Chorale and Fugue\n\nChelsea de Sou
 za​ is a Steinway Young Artist from Mumbai\, India. A musician with exte
 nsive performing experience\, she has won four All-India piano competition
 s organized by the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation\, Musiquest Academy and th
 e Con Brio Piano Festival\, the 2010 IIYM international piano competition\
 , and the 2013 Ohio Tuesday Musical Scholarship Organization competition. 
 De Souza has been interviewed on NBC TV and performed live on Kansas Publi
 c Radio. In addition to numerous appearances in the US\, Belgium\, and Ger
 many\, de Souza has given performances across India\, with the Bombay Cham
 ber Orchestra as well as in personal concert tours as a soloist and in joi
 nt voice and piano recitals with her sister Chloe.\n\nIn 2016\, de Souza w
 on Oberlin’s highly competitive Senior Concerto Competition and performe
 d solo with the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra\, receiving a standing ovat
 ion. De Souza is a musician of varied interests\, both solo and collaborat
 ive\; in addition to her more classically oriented pursuits\, she joined t
 he Contemporary Music Ensemble for their tour to Chicago in January 2016\,
  has been part of Oberlin’s Performance and Improvisation Series for two
  years (including a Young Artist residency with the Detroit String and Win
 d Society in 2015)\, and now continues to perform as part of Peabody’s M
 odern Orchestra and contemporary ensembles including ‘Now Hear This’.\
 nAs a singer\, she was co-director and musical arranger for Oberlin’s lo
 ngest-running all-female a cappella group ‘Nothing But Treble’.\n\nThe
  recipient of three summer music scholarships to study with Sheila Arnold 
 at the Hochschule für Musik in Köln\, Germany\, de Souza has also attend
 ed Pianofest in the Hamptons 2013\, PianoTexas 2014\, and Rebecca Penney
 ’s Piano Festival 2017\, as well as played for such internationally laud
 ed artists as Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Leon Fleisher\, Sir András Schiff and
  Richard Goode. For her unparalleled achievements in music\, she was award
 ed the Global Scholar-Education World Young Achievers Award in Music and A
 rts.\n\nChelsea de Souza is currently pursuing a Master's degree in piano 
 performance at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University with Russ
 ian concert pianist Boris Slutsky. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Inter
 national Politics and in Piano Performance and Vocal Accompanying from Obe
 rlin College of Arts &amp\; Sciences and Conservatory of Music\, where she
  studied with Romanian-American concert pianist Peter Takacs. Her mentors 
 from her years of study in India include Shanti Seldon\, Blossom Mendonca 
 and Delia Varga.\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Piano recitals
LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India
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