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Please share your background with us. I am from the Netherlands where I pursued my violin studies. Then I went on to university to study mathematics. I worked in the field of mathematics between 1981 and 1995, but then fully returned to the music world. In between, I have always
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Please share your background with us. I’ve lived all my life in London and when I was four and my older sister began learning to play, I immediately fell in love with music and the piano. My musical education happened very fortuitously – when I was six my mother took
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Tell us about pursuing your violin studies. I got to study in some incredible institutions: Royal Academy of Music Junior Department, Royal Academy of Music for Undergraduate studies and the Royal College of Music for my Postgraduate. I met a lot of the colleagues that I work with now during
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When did you come up with the idea to tour India with the Australian World Orchestra in October 2015? It was Alexander Briger’s idea who first had a discussion about this with Maestro Zubin Mehta and Nick Deutsch, our Principal Oboe for the Australian World Orchestra. What were the
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Please share your background with us. I grew up in Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, as my parents were teachers at a boarding school called St. George's College, and I studied at the same school. We didn't have much access to learning musical instruments,
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Please share your background with us. I was born in the States and spent most of my childhood in Los Angeles. My parents saw that American kids had lots of time after school so they signed me up for baseball and piano, just like the kids next door. One was
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Please share your background with us. I have always been passionate about music and from a very early age I knew that it was something I wanted to pursue as a career. I started playing the piano at the age of seven, before taking up the guitar at twelve. Music
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The ‘Tales of the Night’ concert series, produced by Akadêmia (France) and supported by The Institut Françias and The French Embassy of India, was held in Bangalore, Delhi and Pune in the first week of February, 2016. We attended the Delhi performance at the Bahá’í House of Worship, and
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Please share your background. I was born in Nagpur, India and emigrated with my family to Poughkeepsie, New York at the age of three. I did my elementary and secondary schooling in Poughkeepsie. I then attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University for my undergraduate studies,
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Please share your background with us. I was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia as second child of five. My parents were both mathematicians who met while doing doctorate studies at Caltech and worked at Flinders University in Adelaide. My father was born and raised in Australia and my mother
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What are your thoughts on Western classical music and fusion? I don’t like the Indian and Western comparisons, but the one thing I do like to take note of is that in the West, there is a space created for every genre thereby allowing it to exist on its
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What were the highlights of your India tour? It would be very difficult to choose a specific moment as the entire trip was fantastic! I had such a wonderful time returning to Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore. Each of the organisations that hosted and presented me were so enthusiastic and