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They are the world’s most famous boys’ choir with a history dating back 700 years, and they are probably the best travelled music ensemble you can find, with four subgroups clocking up around 300 concerts every year, singing to half a million people around the globe: the Vienna Boys
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Named a Young Steinway Artist in 2010, Utsav Lal became the first Indian pianist to join this prestigious international Steinway Artists roster bringing recognition for his unique repertoire of Indian Classical music on the piano. Invited by Steinway & Sons to perform his debut concert at Steinway Hall, New York
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Brillante – The Nagaland Piano Festival is back for its second edition this October 29 – 31, 2019! The first edition of Brillante – The Nagaland Piano Festival was held from September 28th – 30th 2017 at RCEMPA Jotsoma in Kohima. The festival witnessed Tatiana Dichenko (Russian pianist and instructor – Furtados Mumbai), Pradyumna Singn
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A PROGRAM BY MUSÉE MUSICAL Musée Musical is one of India’s oldest music stores. Established in 1842, Musée Musical has always been a prime name in the Western musical instruments and music education field in southern India. Their 175+ years of unparalleled legacy, in-depth understanding of the changing need
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Forty-six year old Lima-born celebrity tenor in his much-awaited London recital was accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sascha Goetzel. Opening the concert on 29th March at the Royal Festival Hall with the overture to Rossini’s opera “La gazza ladra” (The thieving Magpie), the conductor set the
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The long-awaited opening night of the hottest ticket in arguably the season in the operatic world finally arrived. La Forza del Destino was written by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave had its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1862. There after it underwent some revisions receiving its
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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is a resident British orchestra at the Southbank Centre in London. Although its leadership is rotated between three musicians it was formed by a group of period instrumentalist players and has no principal conductor or music director. This gives the flexibility to
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There is no doubt that Maurizio Pollini at age 76 remains one of the world’s great piano virtuosos. This was manifestly proven in the March 12 sell-out concert in the international piano series here in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. Pollini has had a long
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Partnerships between composer and librettist are an essential complexity in the composition of successful opera. Some examples in its history include Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Verdi and Arrigo Boito, Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal and of course Gilbert and Sullivan. The pairing of Mozart and his Italian librettist produced
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The Delhi School of Music, a premier institute for the teaching of western music (classical and jazz) in New Delhi, India, is seeking a piano teacher to be part of the school teaching faculty. The appointment will initially be for a period of one year. Applicants should have a University
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“SCO looks back on a long India-tradition: The orchestra will be in 2019 for the fifth time in India. There is a reason for this commitment: we are thankful for the friendship of the people and for experiencing the richness of India‘s culture. …the concert program includes a variety
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The Olga and Jules Craen Foundation's (OJCF) prestigious Young Musician of the Year (YMOY) award has been won, for the year 2019, by two teenage musicians: pianist Anuvrat Choudhary and violinist R. Samyuktha. They will make their OJCF debut performance in Mumbai on January 21, sharing the stage
