Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/Apr/2018
Genre - Guitar
In a programme of Manuel Maria Ponce : Preludes No. 8, No. 7 and No. 24; Luis de Narvaez : Guardame Las Vacas, “Mind the Cows”; William Byrd : The Woods so Wild; Heitor Villa-Lobos : Prelude No. 4, “Homage to the Brazilian Indian”; J. S. Bach : Prelude, Allemande, Courante from Cello Suite no. 4, BWV 1010; Toru Takemitsu : In the Woods – Wainscot Pond, Rosedale, Muir Woods; Alexander Scriabin : Preludes No. 15 and No. 22, Op. 11 and Agustin Barrios Mangoré : Las Abejas, “The Bees”, Un Sueno en La Floresta and “A Dream in the Forest”
In association with Pune Guitar Society
Madhavan Somanathan was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1991 and started playing the classical guitar (an instrumental form of guitar music, stemming from the European classical tradition) at the age of 7. At a young age, he moved to Delhi, India where he continued to take classical guitar lessons at the Delhi School of Music for several years and at the age of 14, he won first prize at the first National Classical Guitar Competition organized by the Guitar Guild of Goa in Panaji. From 2009 to 2013, Madhavan studied at Columbia University in New York where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. During this time, he performed with Columbia University Guitar Ensemble, a dynamic group performing classical arrangements for six guitars. From 2013 to 2017, Madhavan studied classical guitar performance under French Maestro Judicaël Perroy at the Conservatory of Aubervilliers in France. In 2014, Madhavan won 3rd prize at the prestigious Calcutta International Guitar Festival becoming the first Indian guitarist to place at the competition since its inception in 2010. Aside from his work as a solo artist, Madhavan also plays together with the Korean guitarist Jihyung Park. The duo played their debut concert at festival Novum Generatio in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in November 2015. In 2017, Madhavan toured India as a member of the internationally-based Terra Guitar Quartet, performing contemporary music from around the world, in Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi, Mussoorie and Tiruvannamalai. He presently resides in Delhi, working as a freelance classical guitar teacher and concertist, as well as teaching a co-curricular course on music at Ashoka University.
