MUMBAI: An NCPA Centre for the Promotion of Arts and Culture Trust Presentation
The March 2012 Arties Festival at the NCPA will feature some masterpieces and some rarities performed by outstanding young musicians. Founded in March 2008 by cellist Gauthier Herrmann in partnership with the NCPA, the Arties Festival is awaited by music lovers every March and November in Mumbai.
This Festival will have for the first time, a singer. Karen Vourc’h, the soprano, already has a successful career in Europe after she won the Victoire de la Musique Award in 2009. There will be two more new performers who will participate in the festival, adding to this growing family of Arties musicians. Diet Tilanus is a violinist from Holland who has played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and others, and who performs chamber music all over the world. Violist Marie Chilemme, performs at major European chamber music festivals. She has also been invited to join the l’Orceshtre de Paris and other orchestras in France.
Programme:
13th March
Weber: Clarinet quintet
Sibelius: Lunnotar for soprano and piano
Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock for soprano, clarinet and piano
Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle op. 37
and Arias by Hahn, Tosti, Debussy, Madetoja and Melartin
15th March
Borodin: Trio for 2 violins and cello
Dvorák: Bagatelles Op. 47 for 2 violins, cello and piano
Mozart: Clarinet quintet
Prokofiev: Overture on Jewish themes
16th March
Bloch: Baal Shem suite for violin and piano
Bartok: Contrasts for violin clarinet and piano
Schubert: String quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden)