Aug 26 2022 to Aug 26 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

This concert is a musical tribute on the occasion of the birth centenary of Rani Vijaya Devi Kotda-Sangani, a concert pianist and veena player, who founded the International Music and Arts Society in December 1974 on a suggestion by her brother, Maharaja Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar of Mysore, to augment Bangalore’s existing cultural landscape by providing an international forum for Indian and foreign musicians and artistes. Rani Vijaya Devi was born to Yuvaraja Kanteerava Narasimharaja Wadiyar and Yuvarani Kempu Cheluvaja Amanni of Mysore, their second child, and eldest daughter in 1922. Her early life was spent in Mysore where the cultural atmosphere prevailing in the Mysore Palace had a profound influence on her and her brother, Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, the future Maharaja. She started studying the piano at the age of six, when her grandmother invited the nuns of the Good Shepherd Convent of Mysore to teach the ladies of the court English, and her grandchildren music. She also studied Carnatic music and the veena under the renowned maestro Veena Seshanna. She passed the Fellowship examination of the Trinity College of Music, London and studied for a year and a half with Dr. Alfred Mistowski, an examiner of the Trinity College of Music who had settled down in Mysore during the war years. On a trip with her family to Europe in 1939, they visited the famous composer Rachmaninoff at his villa in Lucerne where she played for him, and he presented her with a bouquet and signed photograph in acknowledgment of her performance. Later after her marriage to the Thakore Saheb of Kotda Sangani and the accession of the princely states to the Indian Union, her husband joined the Foreign Service and they were posted to New York. While there she continued her music studies under Professor Edward Steuermann of the Juilliard School of Music. She gave a number of charity concerts in India, and played over All India Radio and for the Music Society of Hong Kong. She also played two-piano concerts with Annarosa Taddei, an Italian pianist in Hong Kong in 1965 and 1966, and they also gave a number of concerts in the major cities in India. The International Music and Arts Society gratefully acknowledges Rani Vijaya Devi’s contribution to the arts as a performer and patron who brought some of the finest exponents of the performing and visual arts to our city. An important objective of the Society has been its work, through the medium of music and dance, to provide a platform for young and upcoming artists. The programme by young pianist Syed Fateen Ahmed will include compositions by J S Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Grieg and Rachmaninoff. Prior to the concert, tea will be served at 6:00 p.m. In collaboration with the International Music and Arts Society and Furtados