SOI Spring 2019: Peshkar and Scheherazade

Jamshed Bhabha Theatre Ncpa Bulding, Opposite New Oberoi Hotel, NCPA Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Symphony Orchestra of India Zane Dalal, conductor Zakir Hussain, tabla Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture Hussain: Peshkar, concerto for tabla and orchestra (SOI Commission) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade SOI Associate Music Director Zane Dalal will lead the concert on February 16, opening with the Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz. The concert will include Zakir Hussain’s Peshkar, a concerto for tabla and orchestra, commissioned by the SOI in 2015, and which received rave reviews when performed by the SOI on tour in Switzerland. […]

Festival of Opera

Museum Theatre, Egmore Government Museum, Beside Government Maternity Hospital, Pantheon Rd, Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

This is an ensemble of young, talented and qualified singers, who have taken classical music seriously. Every single one of them is active in the field of music, and is the most wanted singer in their respective churches, colleges, and are regular soloists in larger choirs like the Madras Musical Association. The talent consists of 8 female voices and 5 male voices and uses 2 accompanists. All of them are qualified musicians with diplomas from Trinity College, London. Chromatics stages […]

Festival of Opera

Museum Theatre, Egmore Government Museum, Beside Government Maternity Hospital, Pantheon Rd, Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

This is an ensemble of young, talented and qualified singers, who have taken classical music seriously. Every single one of them is active in the field of music, and is the most wanted singer in their respective churches, colleges, and are regular soloists in larger choirs like the Madras Musical Association. The talent consists of 8 female voices and 5 male voices and uses 2 accompanists. All of them are qualified musicians with diplomas from Trinity College, London. Chromatics stages […]

Two Chamber Music Recitals

Experimental Theatre, NCPA National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Kun Woo Paik, the legendary Korean pianist, and pupil of Rosina Lhévinne, Illona Kabos, and Wilhelm Kempff has played recitals in every major concert hall in the world and has performed as soloist with leading international Orchestras.  He is a regular guest artist at most major music festivals and is a prolific recording artist. Henri Demarquette the eminent French cellist, and student of Pierre Fournier, Paul Tortelier and Janos Starker has had a brilliant career performing with international orchestras worldwide […]

Two Chamber Music Recitals

Experimental Theatre, NCPA National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Kun Woo Paik, the legendary Korean pianist, and pupil of Rosina Lhévinne, Illona Kabos, and Wilhelm Kempff has played recitals in every major concert hall in the world and has performed as soloist with leading international Orchestras.  He is a regular guest artist at most major music festivals and is a prolific recording artist. Henri Demarquette the eminent French cellist, and student of Pierre Fournier, Paul Tortelier and Janos Starker has had a brilliant career performing with international orchestras worldwide […]

Bombay Chamber Orchestra ‘Beethoven to Gershwin’

Y.B. Chavan Auditorium YCP Center, Gen. Jagannath Bhosale Marg, Foreshore road, Nariman Point, Near Sachivalaya Gymkhana,, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

A delightful programme of immensely popular musical masterpieces in one evening of sublime entertainment.  The programme includes Symphony No. 6 (“Pastorale”) by Beethoven and Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Orchestra by American jazz-classical composer George Gershwin. Tickets

Carmen

Godrej Dance Theatre Nariman Point, NCPA Marg, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Carmen by Georges Bizet Carmen is a half-wild gypsy living with a band of smugglers in the mountains near the coast of Spain. Set in the year 1830 in Seville, the opera shows the love and jealousy of Don José, who is lured away from his duty as a soldier and his beloved Micaëla by the gypsy factory-girl Carmen, whom he allows to escape from custody. Sung in French with English Subtitles/ Opera Screening Conductor: Louis Langrée Production: Sir Richard Eyre Cast: Clémentine Margaine, Aleksandra Kurzak, […]

Artie’s Festival March 2019, 23rd Edition

Experimental Theatre, NCPA National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Clarisse Dalles, soprano Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann, violin Gauthier Herrmann, cello  Jean-Michel Dayez, piano Artie’s Festival returns with their 23rd Edition, with a rising star in soprano Clarisse Dalles. With some known and unknown pieces in the repertoire, the festival musicians will bring their usual charm, wit and freshness to the high level of chamber music performances. Started as a collaboration between the NCPA and cellist Gauthier Herrmann, the festival director, Artie’s will soon embark on a tour of ‘Around the […]

Artie’s Festival March 2019, 23rd Edition

Experimental Theatre, NCPA National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Clarisse Dalles, soprano Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann, violin Gauthier Herrmann, cello  Jean-Michel Dayez, piano Artie’s Festival returns with their 23rd Edition, with a rising star in soprano Clarisse Dalles. With some known and unknown pieces in the repertoire, the festival musicians will bring their usual charm, wit and freshness to the high level of chamber music performances. Started as a collaboration between the NCPA and cellist Gauthier Herrmann, the festival director, Artie’s will soon embark on a tour of ‘Around the […]