HOW TO LEAD YOUR PIANIST
Singers, how much do you love auditions? I know you’re all troopers, experts at the art of wowing someone in...
Sing for Pleasure at Gandhi Ashram School, Kalimpong
I’m very excited about delivering Sing for Pleasure’s first ever training event in India; the beneficial effects of what we...
THE SOPRANO SOARS
“Come sit in my lieder class. Just sit and listen to the senior students,” an opportunity thrown and grabbed by Patricia Rozario at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, by her German lieder tutor. This was a...
J’ai Fame
Everyone assumed I was meant to do extraordinary things. But it seemed like I was the only one who could...
Can we save classical music?
The current state of classical concerts would be unrecognizable, even enraging, to the performers and audiences of the past centuries....
AND THE CHAMBER FESTIVAL PLAYS: ARTIE’S NOVEMBER 2018
DAY ONE Over two evenings in the sultry month of November the NCPA presented high quality and substantial chamber music. It was the much anticipated arrival of the Artie’s Festival for its 22nd edition in the country. Their larger than...
NERDING OUT: WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CARE WHAT KEY YOUR ARIA IS IN
Singers, how closely do you pay attention to the key signature of the arias you sing? You know how to...
Beethoven’s magnum opus
A brief history of the master’s most spectacular work: Symphony No 9. By Manohar Parnerkar Beethoven’s most celebrated work, Symphony...