Interviews
We take a closer look at some of the people who have been an integral part of the Symphony Orchestra of India. GULZARA SHAKIR, VIOLIN ON Stage: How did your collaboration with the SOI begin? Gulzara Shakir: I was a violinist in Marat Bisengaliev’s West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and
Interviews
Amitabh Kant is the dynamic CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog). In his book “The Path Ahead: Transformative Ideas for India”, he puts forward transformative and innovative ideas towards making India the third largest economy in the world by 2030 and also lays out a comprehensive
Interviews
A roster of internationally renowned soloists will highlight the brilliance of Beethoven with the Symphony Orchestra of India. Interviewed by Beverly Pereira It is a grand stage set-up designed to give life to two monumental works of Beethoven – Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9, both written for orchestra, chorus
Interviews
Mr. Khushroo N. Suntook, Chairman at the NCPA, talks to ON Stage about what is in store for the audiences in a very special season of the SOI and their forthcoming tour of the UK. Living in tropical Mumbai, not everyone might understand the significance of spring. But believe us
Features
After a concert, or a season ends, I always experience a kind of sadness, or emptiness. You leave something behind you, that you have worked so hard for, that have brought struggles and joy, and in the end also brought lovely music to an eager audience. Maybe it is therefore,
Reviews
Ever since the upsurge in targeted violence against the Rohingya since August 2017, Médécins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) has been the most effective international organization providing sustained medical help to the refugees in Bangladesh. The benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on January 28, organized collaboratively by the MSF and Music for
Reviews
On Monday January 21, 2019 The Olga and Jules Craen Foundation presented a recital celebrating the winners of the Young Musicians of the Year (YMOY) Award. Both the foundation and the YMOY award were created in 2012 by former students to honour the concert pianist and pedagogue, as well as
Music Education
Bugs and music – hmm, not as common as birds, but then when you start to think about it, they start to creep up on you. Probably the first piece of bug music you might have learned was Frank Loesser’s Inchworm, brought to the silver screen in the movie Hans
Music Education
Why touring is important, and why the mere thought of it drives management mad. By Zane Dalal Orchestras, as we know them today, started out as small ensembles, joined to some illustrious house or under the patronage of a court. The more important the court, the bigger and better the
Reviews
Yo-Yo Ma remains quite easily one of the top five string players in the world and quite possibly the last surviving heavy-weight cellist of his generation. With the recent announcement of Lynn Harrell’s death, Yo-Yo Ma has no competitors alive. Put quite plainly he is the
News
The 17th edition of Monte Music Festival, presented by Fundação Oriente and Cidade de Goa, will be held from the 1st to the 3rd of February 2019 at the Chapel of Our Lady of Mount, Old Goa. With its first edition in 2002, after the restoration of the
Interviews
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