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December 2007 Newsletter
All-India Piano Competition Eliminations Saturday, December 8, 2007 to Monday, December 10, 2007 Banoo Mansions Finals Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 4:00 pm Experimental Theatre, NCPA Following the success of the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation’s First All India Piano Competition in September 2004, the Foundation is delighted to announce the second one. Twenty-seven participants from all over the country from cities like Allahabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune will perform one complete Beethoven Sonata and one twentieth century composition. There will be just one open category this year with the youngest participant being 13 years of age and the oldest being 29. The eliminations will be held on December 8, 9 and 10 at the Foundation premises. Six finalists will perform before a public audience on December 11 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts’ Experimental Theatre. The jury will consist of eminent pianists and professors Paul Stewart, Sheila Arnold and Marialuisa Pappalardo.
The eliminations will not be open to the public. For the finals, admission on a first-come-first served basis.
The Foundation would like to express its grateful thanks to Furtados - the music showroom, for sponsoring the prizes for the winners.
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Celebrity Recital
Diana Damrau – Soprano
Stephan Matthias Lademann – Piano Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 7:00 pm Experimental Theatre, NCPA Diana Damrau, born in Günzburg an der Donau in Germany, studied at the Musikhochschule Würzburg with Carmen Hanganu and in Salzburg with Hanna Ludwig. Her first engagements took place at the Stadtheater Würzburg and the Nationaltheater Mannheim at Oper Frankfurt. In 2002, Ms. Damrau’s international freelance career was launched and she was invited to sing at the most important theatres in Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg. Soon thereafter, the artist appeared in Vienna, Brussels, Washington and London and since 2002 at the Salzburg Festival. Ms. Damrau has sung under the direction of renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Pierre Boulez and Peter Schneider on the opera stage as well as the concert podium. Diana Damrau’s extensive repertoire ranges from the Italian and French fachs (Gilda/RIGOLETTO, Leila/LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES, Lakmé), to the full lyric roles of the German repertoire, and includes contemporary works as well (the Small Woman in the premiere of Cerha's DER RIESE VOM STEINFELD at the Wiener Staatsoper, HÉRODIADE FRAGEMENTE by Pintscher, “1984” by Maazel/world premiere 2005 at Royal Opera House Covent Garden London). As a highly sought-after interpreter of Mozart and Strauss roles, Ms. Damrau can be heard as Konstanze (Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna 2006), Queen of the Night (Munich, London, Salzburger Festspiele 2006), Zdenka (Munich), Sophie (Dresden, Munich, Vienna), Zerbinetta (Dresden, Vienna, London, Met New York 2005) and Aithra/DIE ÄGYPTISCHE HELENA ) Met New York 2007. In December 2004, the artist sang the title role of Salieri’s L’EUROPA RICONOSCIUTA at the occasion of the reopening of La Scala under the direction of Riccardo Muti.
Recent and future projects include among others ARIADNE AUF NAXOS in Madrid, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA and ÄGYPTISCHE HELENA at the Met, LA FINTA SEMPLICE at the Theater an der Wien, Susanna/LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Salzburg Festival 2007, Pamina/ZAUBERFLÖTE and ENTFÜHRUNG again at the Met, HÄNSEL UND GRETEL and ELISIR D'AMORE at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, new productions of RIGOLETTO in Dresden and of ENTFÜHRUNG at the Liceu Barcelona, ARIADNE AUF NAXOS at the Bayerische Staatsoper München, LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT at the San Francisco Opera as well as HAMLET at the Washington Opera. Ms. Damrau is also in great demand as a Lied singer and is a regular guest of the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.
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Stephan Matthias Lademann had his musical education at the Music High School "Carl Maria v. Weber" in Dresden. He concentrated on piano accompaniment and won and all round artisitic experience as assisstant to the singer Sylvia Geszty at the Music High School in Stuttgart as well as accompanying internationally renowned singers like, Birgit Nilsson, Julia Hamari, Siegfried Jerusalem, Thomas Quasthoff, Inga Nielsen and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Stephan Matthias Lademann was a constant accompanist of singer Siegfried Jerusalem and works with internationally successful singers of the new generation like Diana Damrau, Sibylla Rubens, Chen Reiss, Robert Dean Smith and Ivan Paley. He has concerted in Teatro Colon Bogota, at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen, the Carinthischen Sommer near Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein Festival and also the Carnegie Hall New York. Invitation passes will be available for Patron Members and Donors on a priority basis on November 26, 27 and 28 at the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation premises and for the public from November 28 onwards. Supported by Sangat 2007 Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 7:00 pm Experimental Theatre, NCPA Friday December 21, 2007 at 7:00 pm Experimental Theatre, NCPA Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:00 pm Tata Theatre, NCPA Sunday, December 23, 2007 at 7:00 pm Tata Theatre, NCPA The Foundation is proud to present Sangat 2007, its twelfth annual chamber music festival which has attained international recognition. Sixteen highly acclaimed musicians from all over the world will perform works by Arensky, Beethoven, Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Faure, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Purcell, Schulhoff, Schumann and Tchaikovsky
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The musicians are : Violin – Ellen dePasquale, Harvey de Souza, Jennifer Gilbert, Malavika Gopal, Tamiko Kobayashi, Anthony Marwood, Viola – Catherine Bradshaw, Ralph de Souza, Melissa Reardon, Silvia Simionescu, Cello – Xenia Jankovic, Howard Penny, Raman Ramakrishnan, Christoph Richter, Piano – Sheila Arnold, Paul Stewart. Ticket Rates : Experimental Theatre – Rs.200, Rs.100 Tata Theatre – Rs.300, Rs.200, Rs.100 Box Office at the NCPA : Priority booking for Patrons of the MMMF : December 7, 8 and 9, 2007 Please carry a copy of this Newsletter Public : December 10, 2007 onwards Rehearsals and workshops held at the NCPA or MMMF premises are open to music students, teachers and members of the public. To obtain a schedule, please contact the MMMF office from December 5 onwards. We would like to thank The Consulate General of Canada in Mumbai for their support. Supported by
THE TATA GROUP
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Pallavi Mahidhara – Piano
in collaboration with Bodhi Art Gallery Monday, December 24, 2007 at 7:00 pm Bodhi Art Gallery, 28 K Dubash Marg, Kalaghoda, Mumbai 400 001 Twenty-year-old Pallavi Mahidhara is already a veteran of the classical concert stage. She has appeared in solo and orchestral concerts in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, South Africa, and India, at venues such as the Chicago Symphony Center, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, National Council of Performing Arts in Mumbai, National Concert Hall in Beijing, and Teatro Jovellanos in Spain. Her performances have been praised by critics as combining mature musical insight with an astounding technique and charismatic stage presence. Pallavi made her orchestral debut at the age of 10, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major with the Disney’s Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. Subsequently she appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra in Beijing, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, and Asturias National Orchestra in Spain. She will make her debut with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (South Africa) in May 2008, performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. In the summer of 2006, Pallavi attended the Verbier Academy in Switzerland, where she was honored with the “Most Promising Young Pianist” award. In previous summers, she has performed concertos with the festival orchestras at the Aspen and Banff Summer Festivals and has participated in the Sangat Music Festival in Mumbai. In 2003, Pallavi was the youngest recipient of a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship for her extraordinary achievements in the field of music. At age 13, Pallavi won Second Prize as the youngest contestant in the history of the Beethoven Piano Competition in Memphis, Tennessee. She won the Grand Prize in the Kingsville International Young Performers Competition at the age of 15. She was the National Winner of the 2005 Yamaha Competition, and 2001 Baldwin Competitions. Other awards include First Prize in the 2002 Julia Crane International Young Artists Competition, Third prize at the 2004 Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, and Second Prize at the 2006 National Piano Arts competition.
In 2000, Pallavi was featured on “Piano Grand,” a celebration of the piano’s 300th
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birthday, hosted by Billy Joel and produced by the Smithsonian Institution and the Maryland Public Television. She has appeared twice on the nationally acclaimed radio show “From the Top”, as well as on the award-winning national television series “Musical Encounters.” Pallavi is also an active chamber musician. She has collaborated with musicians from such renowned institutions as the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Philharmonic, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Pallavi is in her third year as a student of Ignat Solzhenitsyn at the Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to Curtis, she studied with Julian Martin, a Juilliard professor. At music festivals, Pallavi has worked with Sergei Babayan, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, Blanca Uribe, and Yoheved Kaplinsky.
Invitation passes will be available for Patron Members and Donors from November 26 onwards at the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation premises.
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Hi !

I have some passes for Saturday sent to me by the head of cultural department of Polish embassy in Delhi. So if anyone in Delhi is interested may please contact me. I'm not sure if I would be able to attend.

I would be interested in 2 passes plz.

Sorry. I was mistaken. The passes that I have are for a different event - Dance Ballad by a Polish group at Sai Auditorium. My apologies

But you are most welcome to have those passes (I have about 10)