Mar 04 2023 to Mar 04 2023 7 p.m.

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Where

Alliance Française de Bangalore

Thimmaiah Rd, opposite UNI, Kaverappa Layout, Vasanth Nagar 560052

Event Description

The Bangalore School of Music with the support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. is happy to be able to present two of Northern Europe's most hailed chamber musicians - Maria Forsström, mezzo-soprano, and Bengt Forsberg, concert pianist. Together they will take us on a journey into dusk, the blue hour, where everything is possible, everything is magic, and everything is love... The program contains music by several French masters, such as Poulenc, Chabrier, Chausson, and Ravel, and will be an evening of art songs as well as piano solos. The selection of music will include "Quatre poèmes hindous" by composer Maurice Delage - with music written for four cities on the Indian subcontinent - Lahore, Madras, Varanasi, and Jaipur. Come and be enchanted, come and fall in love again!

Maria Forsström is equally at ease on the opera stage as in the symphonic repertoire or at a Lieder recital. First having studied church music, piano, and conducting at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and at The Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory – she then realized she wanted to be the instrument herself and started singing at the age of 33. She is much appreciated for her intelligent musicianship and huge enjoyment of exploring different musical styles from early Baroque, the languid soundscapes of the late Romantics, to newly commissioned music.

Bengt Forsberg studied at the Gothenburg School of Music and Musicology, where he first majored in organ, receiving his soloist’s diploma as a pianist in 1978. He continued his training with Peter Feuchtwanger in London and Herman D. Koppel in Copenhagen. Much of Forsberg’s renown is focused on his work as a chamber musician in Sweden and abroad. Among his regular partners are prominent instrumentalists such as the cellist Mats Lidström and the violinist Nils-Erik Sparf.