The Harkat Klassik Evening – Trio (Cello Violin Piano)

Harkat is bringing Western Classical music right to your doorstep. Every month we invite world class musicians to perform in our cozy little studio. But the "Klassik Evening" is not just pure performance of famous pieces, during the course of the evening, the performers share with us a slice of life. Anecdotes from the composers' lives, stories that they connect with certain pieces, the meaning behind a "danse" and a "waltz", ... They give us an entry to this often so mystified "high art" of classical music - creating a connection even for those of us who're listening to Western Classical for the first time live. And for real fans, there's of course nothing more enchanting than being able to watch how the fingers of a world-travelling concert musician dance elegantly across her instrument right in front of our eyes. We're delighted to welcome a trio which has been brought to life especially for this evening - Japanese violinist Mika Nishimura, Polish cellist Magdalena Sas and Swedish pianist Emma Gilljam Tillu. PROGRAMME: J. Haydn - Trio in G major - "The Gypsy Trio" - Hob. XV/25. L v Beethoven - Piano trio in D major - "The ghost trio" - op. 70 no. 1 A. Piazzolla - 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires: Summer and Winter. F. Schubert - 2nd movement from Piano trio no 2 in e-flat major. A. Pärt - Mozart-Adagio About the performers: Mika Nishimura Mika Nishimura was born in Fukuoka, Japan. Started learning to play violin from age 4. Graduated from Keio University in Faculty of Policy Management while studying violin. Prior to her education abroad, she debuted as the soloist with a concert in Tokyo. During her studies, she studied at Franz Listz Academy of Music in Budapest. Starting from 2006 travelled abroad to Madrid, Spain to study in "Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia" in the violin class of Maestro Zakhar Bron. After getting Full Scholarship from the Albeniz Foundation, relocated to Tel-Aviv, Israel to study in the Buchmann Mehta School of Music under supervision of Prof. Irina Svetlova. Getting full scholarship from Tel-Aviv University and attend master-classes of various renowned violin players. Mika participated in many concerts in the framework of the Conservatory, where she studied including a concert tour in Swaziland and Brazil. She performed in the "Gifu Liszt Ferenc" International Music Festival in Japan, Spring of Culture in Bahrain, ConBrio Music Festival in Mumbai and Cool Japan Festival in Mumbai. She performed as a soloist with the "Housei OB" Symphony Orchestra, Chamber music society of colombo in Sri Lanka. Something very close to her heart is, education through music with children. She was teaching as a visiting teacher at Mehli Mehta Music Foundation from 2013-2016. During that period she took 22 Indian students who played the violin and viola to Japan for a tour where they performed with Japanese children at the Takasaki Music Festival. Also she is very passionate in teaching underprivileged children. Her students performed in NCPA as an opening act, where they played Australian and Indian national anthem for Mo.Zubin Mehta’s Australian world orchestra tour concert. Currently she is teaching at Happy home for blind. Mika Nishimura received the 1st prize for the 22nd Young Musician International Competition “ Young Soloist Prize,“Citta di Barletta”. Magdalena Sas (Cello) Polish cellist Magdalena Sas graduated from the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels, Belgium and the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland. Following her passion for chamber music, she completed a postgraduate course in string quartet performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, where she studied with Prof. Johannes Meissl from Artis Quartet Wien. She was a member of the renown European Chamber Music Academy in Austria and a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in the USA at Yale. In 2014 Ms. Sas was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, she is also a recipient of the Thomastik Infeld Vienna Scholarship (Austria), Louise Willson Scholarship (USA), Adam Mickiewicz Institute scholarship (Poland), European Chamber Music Academy scholarship (Austria), Young Talent Festival scholarship (The Netherlands), Hulencourt Art Project Scholarship (Belgium). Ms. Sas is a prize winner of many international competitions including Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in The Netherlands, Josef Windisch Kammermusikpreis Vienna, Rising Stars in Berlin, Val Tidone International Chamber Music competition in Italy, Emuse competition in Greece. She actively performs as a soloist, orchestral and especially a chamber musician in Europe, USA and recently- in India. Following her passion for teaching in 2015, Magdalena started a cello program for the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation in Mumbai, India. Having a strong belief in music's social function she initiated opening a cello program for the underprivileged children from South Mumbai. Emma Gilljam Tillu Emma Gilljam Tillu is a classical pianist from Sweden. She has a Bachelor of Music 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 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 the Gottfried Boon-scholarship by the Royal Music Academy of Sweden in 2004 and was a finalists in the national competition "Ung och Lovande" (Young and Promising) in 2003. Since her graduation in 2007, she has performed in concert houses throughout Sweden, at several chamber music festivals, and as a soloist with several orchestras. In 2008 she toured extensively in China with her trio "Stockholm Chamber Trio" commissioned by Rikskonserter (Concerts Sweden). Emma likes to collaborate with other art forms, she is the co-founder of the theatre company Theatreact and she regularly performs in theatre performances and dance performances, which has taken her around Europe, India and The United States. Since three years back Emma has her base in Mumbai where she is working as a freelance pianist and piano teacher. In 2015 she did her Mumbai debut as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of India under the baton of Piotr Borkowski at Prithvi Theatre and a year before that with the Bombay Chamber Orchestra performing two different Mozart concertos. Emma keeps travelling back and fourth to Sweden for concerts, recently she was part of the Swedish contemporary opera "Kärlekskriget" that had it's world premiere in June 2017 in Vattnäs Concert house, which critics raved in all Swedish media. Date & Time: 28.01.18, 7.30pm Tickets: 400 INR on: coming soon (www.insider.in) Address: Harkat Studios, Bungalow 75, Aram Nagar 2, Off JP Road, Versova, Andheri West, Mumbai 400061, 7718030009. 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