Cadenza Musicians Directory
Instrumental Soloists

Name: Patrizia Kwella
Skills: Singer, Soloist (International Soprano Soloist)
Phone: +44 (0)20 7228 9864
Fax: +44 (0)20 7228 9864
Links: Website     E-mail
 
PATRIZIA KWELLA studied singing, piano and the 'cello at the Royal College of Music, and shortly afterwards made her BBC Promenade Concert debut with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She has a wide repertoire both in concert and on recordings, ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.

She has appeared at many of Europe's leading festivals, including Aldeburgh, Salzburg and Edinburgh, working with conductors such as Phillipe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood and Sir Charles Mackerras. Since her American debut with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra under Richard Hickox she has returned to sing with the San Francisco, Houston and Washington Symphony Orchestras, in addition to the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under David Atherton. She also sang the title role in Handel's Theodora at a gala performance in the British Embassy in Paris.

Miss Kwella has given the world premières of Colin Matthews’ Night’s Mask and Pli de Lin, the former with the Nash Ensemble at the Aldeburgh Festival and the latter with the Allegri String Quartet. With the Nash Ensemble she subsequently recorded Night’s Mask and also sang the world première of David Matthews’ The Sleeping Lord at the Prague Spring Festival, repeating the performance at the Bath Festival and in London's Wigmore Hall.

Other notable appearances have included Haydn’s Creation using Ann Hunter’s recently discovered libretto, the first performance in modern times of Zelenka’s Requiem, both at the St Ceciliatide International Festival, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Finland’s Turku Cathedral. She has also sung solo Bach Cantatas in the Madrid Early Music Festival, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Weber’s rarely performed Mass in Eb. She recently took part with James Bowman and Jakob Lindberg in a highly successful re-creation of an Elizabethan Masque in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In May 2001 she gave the first performances of Handel's Gloria in excelsis Deo which was found in the Royal Academy archives in March 2001. With ‘cellist Jenny Ward Clarke and harpsichordist Laurence Cummings Miss Kwella has also given many shared recitals of 17th and 18th century music.

 

Name: Genevieve Lacey
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher (Recorder)
Address: Australia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Genevieve Lacey is acclaimed as a recorder virtuoso. She performs repertoire spanning nine centuries with commanding passion. She has recorded multiple CDs including Il flauto dolce, her first release with ABC Classics, which won the 2001 ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award) for Best Classical Recording.

As well as her appearances as concerto soloist (touring both nationally and internationally with the Academy of Ancient Music, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - including a performance at the 2001 Proms at Royal Albert Hall), Genevieve works as a solo recitalist in Australia and Europe. She also performs medieval repertoire with the Danish pipe and tabor player, Poul H¿xbro and has a keen interest in contemporary music, with a growing number of premieres and commissions to her name. In 2004, she performed the world premieres of Tulp, a new multi-media work with Elision ensemble, a solo work by John Rodgers and an ensemble piece by Lawrence Whiffen. She is currently collaborating on new works for recorder with Brett Dean, Joby Talbot (UK), Elena Kats-Chernin, Ross Edwards, John Rodgers, James Ledger, Geoffrey Burgon (UK) and Damian Barbeler.

Genevieve has a long and impressive formal education, holding academic and performance degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from the University of Melbourne (Australia), the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (Denmark, class of Dan Laurin). She graduated from each of these academies as the most outstanding student. Genevieve is a Fellow of the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, where she is the youngest person to have been awarded this honour.

Between 2001 and 2003, Genevieve was the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Autumn Music Festival - Australia's longest-running early-music festival. In 2001, she was awarded the inaugural Music Council of Australia/Freedman Fellowship in Classical Music, a fellowship awarded to young Australian musicians of superb achievement to assist in building an international career.

 

Name: Abhisek Lahiri
Skills: Soloist (Indian Classical Musician- Sarod artist)
Phone: O33- 26272753
Address: Usha Bhavan, Sastitola, Ramrajatola, Howrah., West Bengal 711104, India
Links: E-mail
 
Abhisek Lahiri is one of the most promising young genaration Sarod player of India today.Born in 1984, he is the son and deciple of eminent Sarodiya Pt.Alok Lahiri.

In the year 1997, at the age of 14, He was invited by the World Kinder Festival in Holland as a Wonder Child Sarod player. For the last five years now, Abhisek is performing extensively in different parts of Europe, along with his illustrious father. In 2002, they have also performed at the Europe Parliament, as the only Indian.

Abhisek is the recipient of both junior and senior Scholarship under Govt.Of India. He also received the prestigious Anun Lund Award worth Rs.50000 from the Norwegian Govt. He won the A.I.R Music competition and got President Award and at present he the B-Hgh artist of A.I.R. In the year 2002, he won the Telegraph School Award as an outstanding talent.

Abhisek has performed in almost all the major music conferences of India and abroad.He is also been honoured with the Jadubhatta Purashkar from the Salt Lake Music association.He is a regular performer in All India Radio and Television.

 

Name: Ariel Lanyi
Skills: Composer, Soloist (piano)
Phone: 97226414481
Fax: 97226428864
Address: 39 Sh. Levin, Jerusalem 96664, Israel
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I share my birthday (October 10th) with Giuseppe Verdi, Thelonious Monk, Harry Sweets Edison, and Junior Mance. But because I was born in 1997, the only one of these that I met in person is Junior Mance. (Here is the autograph I received from him.)

At the age of 5 I started piano lessons with my teacher, Leah Agmon. I also started playing the violin at that time. At 6 I started to learn composition. When I was 7 I discovered jazz. I was nearly 8 when I began to study jazz with J.C. Jones, and played my first jazz session on my 8th birthday.

 

Name: Kosmas Lapatas
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Soloist, Teacher
Address: Greece
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Prof. Kosmas Lapatas studied Piano, Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Composition, Music Technology and Music Therapy under world-renowned celebrities such as Dmitri Toufexis and Danae Kara (Juilliard), Thomas Kelly (Harvard), Craig Wright (Yale), Brian Robison and Michael Cuthbert (MIT), Clare Brooks (UCL), Bruce Miller (BAMSA), Robert Dennis (RID), Bobby Owsinski (BOMG), Marcos Alexiou, Ioannis Christofilos and Vassilis Dellios.

Prof Lapatas has attended piano, pedagogy and conducting masterclasses from Dmitri Toufexis & Eleni Traganas (Juilliard), George Hadjinikos (RNCM), Sontraud Speidel (HMK), Vera Nosina (GSMC), Eleonora Tkatch (MSTC) and Anastasios Symeonidis (MWV)

Prof Lapatas is a Teaching Artist in prestigious schools, colleges, conservatories and institutions, and has performed at prestigious concert halls and cultural centers.

He is the recipient of the 1st Prize Award in Piano Performance, the 1st Prize in Composition and the Classical Music Education Initiative Award. He has recorded more than 20 CDs with Classical, Film and Electronic Music. He is a member of AMS, DMO, EPTA, HeJMEC, IAC, ISPCI, ISPME, MPG, NAfME and NEMA

 

Name: Jean-François Latour
Skills: Soloist (Pianist)
Address: 7120 Beaulieu, Montreal/Quebec H4 E 3G7, Canada
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Hailed by critics for his “full command of the instrument, beautiful lyricism and poetry” (La Presse, Montréal), the 27 year-old French-Canadian pianist Jean-François Latour is gaining an international reputation. He has performed extensively in the major cities of Europe and North America, including Paris, Toulouse, Geneva, Hamburg, Brussels, Washington D.C. and Baltimore. He was recently named “Jeune soliste de l’année” (Young Soloist of the Year), by the CRPLF, the Communauté des Radios Publiques de Langue Française (French Language Public Radio Network). As a result, Mr. Latour’s live performances have been broadcast by the Radio Suisse-Romande, Italian National Radio – RAI, Belgian Radio-Television, and the Société Radio-Canada. He has also presented recitals which have been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Vermont Public Radio.

In May 2002, Jean-François Latour completed the prestigious Artist Diploma program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he was a full scholarship student of Leon Fleisher. He was the only student admitted into this program, in any discipline, in the year 2000. He previously earned a Graduate Performance Diploma also at Peabody. In addition, he has an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he was a student of Marc Durand and Leon Fleisher. He earned his M.M. and B.M. at the University of Montréal, where he studied with Marc Durand. Mr. Latour has also worked with John Perry, André Laplante, Ellen Mack, Marek Jablonsky and Gilbert Kalish.

 

Name: Susan Legg
Skills: Singer, Soloist (Mezzo Soprano)
Phone: +44 (0)1243 552389
Fax: +44 (0)1243 552389
Address: Fir Croft, Church Lane, Barnham, West Sussex PO22 ODB, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Susan Legg studied at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio. Operatic engagements have included Glyndebourne, Bayreuth and Wexford Festivals, the Walton Trust, Ischia and the Aldeburgh Festival.

Awards include first prize in the National Mozart Competition and the Richard Tauber Schubert Society Prize. Other prestigious competition successes include the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Belvedere International Singing Competition and the Queen Sonja International Competition, Oslo,1999.

Susan made her Wigmore Hall recital debut (recorded by the BBC) in 1995 and has given recitals at the South Bank, St. John's, Smith Square and the Purcell Room. Her new CD of Lutoslawski chamber music on the ASV label with pianist Ann Martin-Davis has met with critical acclaim.

 

Name: David Leisner
Skills: composer, soloist, teacher
Address: New York City, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
DAVID LEISNER is an extraordinarily versatile musician with a multi-faceted career as an electrifying performing artist, a distinguished composer, and a master teacher. Regarded as one of America's leading classical guitarists, his superb musicianship and provocative programming have been applauded by critics and audiences around the world. He has been acclaimed as "a triple-threat performer" by The New York Times and a "serious, exploratory and imaginative musician" by The Boston Globe.

 

Name: Nathan Leyland
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (cellist)
Address: United States
Links: E-mail

 

Name: Marco Lo Muscio
Skills: Soloist
Phone: +39 06 87193234
Address: Via Valle Corteno 75, Rome 00141, Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Pupil of the great pianist Sergio Fiorentino and of the great organist James E. Goettsche.400 Concerts:Oxford (Exeter college),Wales,Iceland, France,Montecarlo,Vatican,Rome,Florence,... Five CD : Piano visions,American piano music,Organ vision I and II, Spohr,Schubert and Schumann:Chamber music. For details: www.marcolomuscio.com

 

Name: Daniel Lochrie
Skills: arranger, composer, player, soloist, teacher
Phone: +1 615 262 0433
Address: Nashville/Davidson/Tennessee, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Daniel Lochrie is a member of the Nashville Symphony and teaches at Belmont University. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, studying clarinet with Brian Schweickhardt, John Mohler, and James Pyne. Before entering graduate school, Dr. Lochrie was a member of the National Orchestra of New York, studying with Leon Russianoff and performing regularly with the orchestra in Carnegie Hall. He subsequently earned his Master's degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where his teacher was Franklin Cohen (Principal of the Cleveland Orchestra) and completed his doctorate degree as a Teaching Associate under James Pyne at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Lochrie performed with the West Virginia, Fort Wayne, and Columbus Symphonies, before becoming a core member of the Nashville Symphony in 1992. A Nashville session player, he is also a performer in several Nashville chamber series' and is an active solo recitalist on clarinet and bass clarinet. He has been a member of the New Lancaster Festival Orchestra since 1988 and the Corsi Internazionali Di Musica summer festival in Urbino, Italy since 1994. In addition to his academic and performance interests, he is active as a composer and arranger. Dr. Lochrie appears as clarinetist/bass clarinetist on a CRI compact disc of works by Donald Harris, For the Night to Wear, and on the Stones River Chamber Players Music for a Farce.

 

Name: Simon St. John Locke
Skills: Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (French horn and Wagner Tuba)
Phone: +44 (0)1332 670101
Address: 116 Morley Road, Derby DE21 4QX, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Very experienced french horn player and teacher. MMus and BA (Hons) in Musical Performance.

Played with many ensembles including London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Grenadier Guards Band and many West End productions.

Available for playing, teaching and Conducting. All musical challenges welcomed.

 

Name: Beatrice Long
Skills: Soloist (Recitalist, Soloist with orchestra, Residencies, Workshops for students of all ages.)
Phone: +1 540 326 1491
Fax: +1 540 326 1491
Address: 804 Fincastle Drive, Bluefield, VA 24605, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Beatrice Long is a rising young pianist to watch during next few seasons. A recent review by Robert Jones, Charleston SC said: "She played with a strong rhythmic drive and summoned up lush and colorful sounds." "Even before she takes her place at the keyboard, it's clear she means business." Regarding the same performance on the International Piano Series, William Furtwangler wrote: "Long plays with a maximum of insight and technical ability and can bring the mighty Steinway to its knees." She played Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in New York with the Amsterdam Philharmonic at Symphony Space to a full house and received a standing ovation.

She has won numerous competitions, is playing extensively in this country and abroad and receiving excellent reviews and return engagements, has studied with renowned teachers, and has made three compact discs for Naxos. In reviewing her all-Scriabin disk, American Record Guide said: "Ms. Long is a strong, no-nonsense musician whose command of these works is impressive on many levels."

Her top awards are: the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, the Young Keyboard Artists Association International Competition, the AMSA 1990 World Piano Competition and the Taipei International Piano Competition. Most recent among her awards is FIRST prize in the Ellis Duo Piano Competition in which she performed with her sister, Christina

Ms. Long has played recitals in Central America, Southeast Asia, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and the United States and appeared in important festivals, such as the Ravinia Festival, Fontainebleau and Chateau de Lourmarin. She has appeared as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfonia de Mexico with Enrique Batiz conducting, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Prince George Philharmonic in Washington, D.C., Southshore Symphony of New York, Santa Barbara Summer Festival Orchestra, and the Curtis and Cleveland Institute Symphony Orchestras. She was invited to perform with orchestra at the President's Palace in Taiwan. Her teachers include Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Leon Fleisher, Seymour Lipkin , Fou Ts'ong, and Enrique Graf. She is also an active chamber musician and a master-teacher.

 

Name: Igor Longato
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +41 91 994 49 20
Fax: +41 91 993 08 64
Address: via al Cottorado 11, Gentilino 6925, Switzerland
Links: E-mail
 
Igor Longato studied piano at the Conservatory of Music "G.Verdi" – Milan - and graduated with the highest degree with M° E. Esposito, he also studied Pipe organ and composition with E. Galliera Frick. After he partecipated to masterclasses with: 1992-93 M° Piero Rattalino, apprenticeship Milano Conservatory "G.Verdi" 1993-94 M° Piero Rattalino, Portogruaro Corsi internazionali di perfezionamento Pianistico 1995-97 M° Fausto Zadra, CIEM-Mozart Ecole Internationale de Piano, Lausanne-Pully 1998-99 M° Riccardo Zadra, Scuola di Perfezionamento Pianistico di Padova 2000 M° Boris Bloch, Salzburg –Interationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum

Igor Longato performed with success Chamber Music and solo Recitals around Europe. The following are the most important recitals: Italy (1999 Sondrio; 1992, 1996 Milano; 1991 Como; 1991 Lecco; 1990 Faenza; 1993 Torino; etc.) Switzerland (1994, 1997 Chiasso; 1993-97, 1999 Lugano; 1997 Mendrisio; 1995 Locarno; 1996-97 Ascona; 1996 Lausanne; Melide 1997) USA (1998 Waterbury- Connecticut) Spain (1996 Valencia, Festival du Mediterranée; 1992 Murcia, Festival Internacional de Orquestas de Jovenes, Murcia) Turkey (1993 Istanbul, International Festival of Music, Art and Dance) Albania (1990 Durazzo, Korcia, Tirana)

As soloist perfomed with the following orchestras: 1998 The Waterbury Symphony (Mozart K467) – USA 1995 Sophia Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninoff n.2 op.18) – Bulgaria 1995 The Philarmonic of Bourgàs (Rachmaninoff n.1 op.1) – Bulgaria 1994 Rumania State Philarmonic (Tchaykowsky n.1) 1994 Belarus State Philarmonic (Tchaikowsky n.1), tournèe in Italy, Switzerland and Belarus 1993 Suiss - Italian soloists orchestra (Mozart K414) under conductors as M° Bruno Amaducci (Swiss), M° Viktor Dubrowsky (Belarus), M° Denise Fedeli (Italy), M° Ovidiu Balan (Italy), M° Lief Bjaland (USA) The following recordings have been done during the last few years: 1999 Chamber Music CD "I Cameristi" (strauss walzer and various transcriptions) 1997 a Solo CD dedicated Interely to Russian Music - Mussorgsky (Pictures at an exhibition) and Scriabin (preludes op.16, 11, 13, 16) He also made various chamber music recordings for the Italian and Swiss television, and the Swiss and Bulgarian radio.

June 23rd, 1997, Enrico Colombo, La Regione Ticino (Lugano) Igor Longato inaugurated the 20th Ceresio Estate festival with a lovely recital dedicated to 4 great Romantic composers. The differences in the technical difficulties of the 15 pieces were disguised by Longato's confidence and freedom of interpretation, along with a rigorous respect of the written music. The elegance of the rubato and the exquisite changes in tempo in the pieces by Chopin, the rhythmic imperiousness of the toccata by Schumann, the epic character of Brahms' rhapsody, all of these must be called upon to describe the excellent performance given by Longato. The warm applauses that filled the hall were, needless to say, very well-deserved. June 23rd, 1997, Armando Libotte, La Rivista di Lugano "Ceresio Estate" could not have started on a better note: Igor Longato presented a program dedicated to the great Romantics. This impressive and distinctive pianist lent himself with olympic serenity to the fancy of the composers, (Schumann-toccata, Brahms-rhapsody op. 119, etc.) playing for over two hours. November 23rd, 1998, The Republican American, Waterbury (Connecticut) The guest pianist Igor Longato received the enthusiastic applause of the audience that filled the Naugatuck Valley Community Hall. Longato played Mozart's concert KV 467, earning ovations that brought him back onto the stage several times. The concert, with its very technically intricate first movement and its more simple and expressive second movement, was a splendid performance. Longato took on the exuberant melodies of the first and third movements with the same delicate simplicity that he applied in the slower and more thoughtful second movement. The concert changes character several times throughout the different movements, going from playful to reflective, but Longato keeps the pace by constantly adjusting his pianism to the changing spirit of the composition. January 15th 1999, La Rivista di Lugano, Lugano A brilliant Igor Longato thrills the Campione Lions. The pianist starred in a benefit concert entirely dedicated to Chopin. The excellent execution of every single piece was clearly fruit of solid technical and interpretative maturity and ended with the irresistible surge of octaves of the Polacca op.53 also by Chopin. February 15th 1999, La Provincia, Sondrio (Italy) Longato's performance of Beethoven's Appassionata seems to be anchored in tradition, but in fact his is a very precise and profound interpretation... in the execution of the Pictures of an Exhibition he created enchanting atmospheres and a structured sounds that showed great intuition... Gnomus' finale and the solid octaves of the Great Door of Kiev are all passaggi da manuale... The execution of Chopin's Walzer was enthralling. February 15th 1999, Il Giorno, Sondrio Igor Longato fascinates the "Torelli" theatre... He brings to light, as never before, the importance of the piano as an expressive instrument... Pianist and piano become almost a single unity... Igor Longato gave the "Pictures" a close reading of the original text; its sharpnesses and certain shrillnesses wanted by Mussorgsky were rendered with impeccable mastery.

 

Name: Lori Lovato
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +1 505 881 2986
Fax: +1 505 881 5267
Address: 7450 Prairie Road NE, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM 87109-1803, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Lori Lovato, clarinetist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied with Clark Brody and Robert Marcellus. Currently she is principal clarinetist of the Santa Fe Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, Musica de Camera Orchestra, and founder of the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet and 3/2 Jazz Duo.

In addition Ms. Lovato has performed with the Sante Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Four Corners Opera Orchestra, Southwest Opera Orchestra, and as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra's Music Under the Stars series.

Recently she earned her degree from the University of New Mexico and presnetly studies with jazz virtuoso Eddie Daniels. In addition to performing, she teaches privately and is a woodwind instructor for the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program.

 

Name: Arthur A. Lukomyansky
Skills: Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher
Address: Boston, MA 02135, United States
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Karl Kenneth Lutgens
Skills: Conductor, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +1 954 661 9577
Address: 701 NW 19th Street #409, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Graduate of The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The University of Florida. Flutist with The Hollywood Symphony, North Miami Beach Symphony, Florida Wind Symphony, and various chamber music ensembles. Winner of many State, National, and International Music Awards.

Frequent clinician, conductor, and soloist of The Florida Flute Association.

Teach students of all ages and levels.

 

Name: Fabio Maffei
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (piano)
Phone: + 41 1 252 41 43
Address: Zürich, Switzerland
Links: E-mail
 
Fabio Maffei, an Italian native, was born in Yverdon (Switzerland) on 2nd October 1968. At the age of 4 he began to play the piano and from 1976 to 1985 he studied at the Conservatory of Lausanne, in the class of Anne-Marie Tabachnik. During several years he took proficiency and interpreting classes with the pianist Fausto Zadra, before carrying on his studies with the pianist Esther Yellin at the Heinrich Neuhaus Foundation in Zurich. From 1985 he privately studied composition with the Swiss composer René Gerber. He also studied orchestra conducting under Chen Liang-Sheng in Geneva and Michel Tabachnik. Fabio Maffei won several prizes at piano competitions. He performed in Switzerland and abroad, either solo or with orchestra. His "opus 1" (Divertimento for 7 wind instruments and piano) was first performed in 1988 in the Wiener Konzerthaus by the Vienna Virtuosi. In 1993 he won the special prize at the composing competition "Musique pour la Liturgie" of the "Procure Romande de Musique Sacrée" in Fribourg, and two years later the first prize for his work Le Petit Prince at the Competition for Young Composers of the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. His compositions (works for orchestra and chamber music) were performed in Switzerland, in Europe and in the USA. They were also broadcasted on radio and television. In 1996, Fabio Maffei was awarded by the Arts-Sciences-Lettres Society of Paris.

 

Name: Ananta Makhal
Skills: Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Violinist
Address: 68/1 Glory Appartment, Behala Pallysree Pally, M.I.D. road., Kolkata 700060, India
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Mr. Ananta Makhal was born in Calcutta and presently he is in his mid-seventies. He is a principal violinist, educationist and conductor of western classical music. He is one of the most senior musicians and pioneer of western classical music culture of today’s India. He grew up at Oxford Mission Boarding School, Calcutta. He began learning violin under the guidance of Father Theodore Matheson, British educationist and administrator of his school; he later pursued his professional Western Classical Music Course (practical and theory) under the supervision of venerated violinist Mr. Stanly Gomes and acclaimed Pianist / Composer Professor John Cooper.

Mr. Makhal began his professional career during 1960s as a violinist of Calcutta Symphony Orchestra (C.S.O) and Conductor / Teacher of Oxford Mission School Orchestra (O.M.S.O). He later became the soloist of Calcutta Youth Orchestra and The Conductor of Calcutta Chamber Orchestra. He led the second violin section as a principal violinist and represented India through Delhi Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades. He is one of the co-founders of Oxford Mission School Orchestra, which was one of the very few school symphony orchestras of India at that time. He later started introducing his students to The Indian Navy Band and Delhi Symphony Orchestra. He also been invited to lead a concert tour as a conductor with Oxford Mission School Orchestra at several cities of United Kingdom and had the privilege to perform at the prestigious venues like St. Paul’s Cathedral, Canterbury, The Yehudi Menuhin School, Princes Margaret School, Chartwell and London B.B.C. Radio etc. at1984.

He contributed most of his time for the school where he belongs to and produced hundreds of qualified musicians every year. Many of his students today are internationally known practicing musicians. As a professional musician, Mr. Makhal has had an amazing journey with a simple life style and he remembers the immortal moments of his life, when he had the honor of working with Legendary and World Famous Musicians like Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Larry Adler, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Bream, Daniel Barenboim, Gerhard Mantel, Einar Jeff Holm, Zigmondy, Alfredo Campoli, David Woodcock, Shankman, Ms. Barbara Peterson Cackler, Dimiter Karaminkov, William Kempff and many more including Indian Music Maestro Mr. Salil Chowdhury.

Mr. Makhal has had many opportunities and exclusive offers to leave Oxford Mission School and Calcutta to pursue a more glamorous life in aboard, but he found his peace and glory only in teaching children and enriching their life with music at The City of Joy.

 

Name: Michael Rupam Makhal
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Violinist
Address: Lotus Enclave, Flat No. 205, Yellareddyguda, beside R.B.I. Quarters,, Hyderabad 500073, India
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Mr. Michael Makhal is a western classical violinist and a music composer. He is educated on western classical music from ABRSM (London Board). Michael was born in Calcutta but presently settled in Hyderabad. He is son of a famous Violinist and Conductor ‘Mr. Ananta Makhal’. Michael represents India in the field of Western Classical Music through Delhi symphony Orchestra and also associated with esteemed organizations like Neemrana Foundation, Calcutta School of Music, Bangalore School of Music, A.P. Film Industry etc. On the other hand, Michael has formed a Small Western Classical Music Orchestra to perform the immortal compositions of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc. The orchestra includes highly professional and renowned musicians from all over the country and available for prestigious events.

Michael has begun his professional career at his teen-age and has performed at almost all the major cities of India. He is currently working for many renowned music directors of South India and as well as for the development of Western Classical Music at Hyderabad and other places of India. Michael is presently at his youth but have come a long way, he had the privilege to share the stage with World Famous Musicians like Yoshikazu Fukumura, Hikotaro Yazaki, Tatsunobu Goto, Dr. Paul Carlson, Frederic Ligier, Frederic Poilvet, Ms. Aude Priya Wacziarg, Jasmin Martorell, Philippe Desandre, Jean-noel Cabrol and many more including Indian Music Maestros like Music Director ‘M.M.Keeravani’, Mandolin ‘Srinivas’ and Flutist ‘Nagaraju’ etc. One of Michael’s noted performances was, representing India through Delhi Symphony Orchestra at Japan (Tokyo), during an International event called Asia Orchestra Week, on the prestigious stage of ‘Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall’.

 

 


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