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Duo Recital

An NCPA & Furtados Presentation

Zubin Behramkamdin started learning the violin at the age of seven with Silloo Panthaki and passed the Licentiate Examination of the Trinity College of Music, London, with distinction, standing first in India that year. He has participated in various workshops and masterclasses conducted by internationally eminent musicians, including cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostroprovich and Ralph de Souza of the Endellion Quartet. Behramkamdin performs regularly in India as a soloist and in chamber music recitals and has collaborated with many musicians, local and visiting, over the years. He has often performed at the Sangat Chamber Music Festival and the Con Brio Festival. He was selected to play in the European Community Youth Orchestra (now the European Youth Orchestra) conducted by Zubin Mehta for its tour, covering performances in London, Madrid, Rome and cities in India. He has also played with the World Orchestra for Peace, which consists of musicians from all over the world and plays under the baton of Valerie Gergiev in concerts in London, Berlin, Moscow, Krakow, Budapest, Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg and Beijing. In 2018, Behramkamdin was selected to play in an international orchestra under the baton of Simon Rattle at the Berliner Philharmonie.

Emma Gilljam Tillu is a classical pianist from Sweden. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm followed by a Master of Music in Chamber Music from Scandinavia’s top institution, the Royal College of Music/Edsberg Manor. She has also participated in several masterclasses by internationally renowned pianists and musicians such as Paul Roberts, Yonty Solomon, Hans Leygraf, The Altenberg Trio and Michel Béroff. She was awarded Gottfried Boon’s scholarship by the Royal Music Academy of Sweden in 2004 and was a finalist in the national competition Ung och Lovande (Young and Promising) in 2003. Since her graduation in 2007, she has performed at many of the concert houses around Sweden, at several chamber music festivals and as a soloist with several orchestras. In 2008, she toured extensively in China with the Stockholm Chamber Trio commissioned by Rikskonserter (Concerts Sweden). Gilljam Tillu is the co-founder of the theatre company Theatre Act and she regularly appears in theatre and dance performances, which have taken her around Europe, India and the US. She currently lives in Mumbai where she works as a freelance pianist and piano teacher. In 2015, she made her Mumbai debut as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of India under the baton of Piotr Borkowski at Prithvi Theatre and a year prior, with the Bombay Chamber Orchestra performing two different Mozart concertos. She has performed solo and chamber music concerts around India including Delhi, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Puducherry, Hyderabad and Dehradun.

Programme includes:
Grieg: Violin Piano Sonata No. 1 in F major
Brahms: Violin Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor
Piazzola: Pieces for violin and piano

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