Interviews
Kong Pauline Warjri is a pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, composer and music educator, and the conductor-founder of two choirs – Aroha Choir and the Aroha Children’s Choir. From one of my earliest encounters with her, I recall one of the narrations about what made her connect more deeply with her
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Nikhil Sardana: What is the history of Yamaha Music? When did you first start operations in India and what products do you currently offer in this field? Hitoshi Mochizuki: Since 1887, when it began producing reed organs, the Yamaha Corporation in Japan (then Nippon Gakki Co. Ltd.) has grown to
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Nikhil Sardana: What is your fondest memory of Olga Craen as her student? Zinnia Khajotia: Her sense of humour - especially after a tipple or two! Her attention to detail and demands for perfection every time. She lived by her own set of principles in both her personal and professional
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Stephen Vaglica: Pervez, what got you into music? Pervez Mody: As a child I was extremely quiet and introverted albeit stubborn as hell. Even as a child who couldn’t say much as protest I used to create hell if I didn’t get what I wanted. What got this
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Nikhil Sardana: What is the International Music & Arts Society? Tell us about its founder. What was the purpose and vision of setting up this organisation? Urmila Devi Kotda Sangani: The International Music & Arts Society(IMAS) is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation founded in 1974 by my mother Rani Vijaya
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Sebanti Chatterjee: Hello! Please tell us a little bit about your journey to the world of Western classical music? Sunit Tandon: I came here in the mid 70’s. I learnt piano at Lucknow. My Piano teacher introduced me to the then director, Mr. Palamkote. Thereafter, I was introduced to
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Nikhil Sardana: Please share you background with us. K N Suntook: I am a Bombay person. My family has been here for hundreds of years. We grew up in a very western atmosphere. My grandfather had a huge collection of records and would play the piano and sing Lieder after
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Nikhil Sardana: Please share your background with us. Dickoo Nowroji: I was born into a musical family in Jamshedpur. My father was a connoisseur who understood the finer points of Western classical music to an unusual degree. We had a huge LP collection, and the best mono system in town
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Nikhil Sardana: Please share your background with us. Alan Gemmell: I grew up in Scotland in an ordinary working class community and somewhere between the ages of 12 and 13 had my first piano lesson. A year later I went to the Royal Conservatoire of Music (formerly Royal Scottish Academy
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Nikhil Sardana: Please share your background with us. Marialena Fernandes: I grew up in Bombay in a family of four sisters and one brother. My parents came from Goa and Mangalore and are Roman Catholic by religion - conversion through colonisation. Ever since I can remember, music has been the
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Nikhil Sardana: When did you set up the Bombay Chamber Orchestra and what was your inspiration behind this initiative? Jini Dinshaw: The Bombay Chamber Orchestra (BCO) was founded in 1962. On my return from the UK, I discovered that the Bombay Symphony Orchestra and the Bombay Philharmonia were no longer
Features
This year, after the Jaipur Literature Festival, we had the opportunity to speak with Mr Sanjoy Roy, the Managing Director of Teamwork Arts on a variety of topics related to the arts, their impact across the world, especially in India, and get an insight into what we could perhaps do