A piano recital: Journey through ages @ Natarani Amphitheater

01-Feb-2019

After completing his Higher Secondary education at Ahmedabad, Shantanu Patel chose to do BA (Hons) Music from KM College of Music and Technology, Chennai, later doing B.Tech and then joining ISRO.

Under the guidance of his first guru, Dr. Adam Grieg and tutorship of Dr. A. R. Rahman, he completed his 3 years course receiving “The Best Performer of the Year” award.

Shantanu Patel is the pianist that is going to take Ahmedabad through a Journey of ages with his Piano @ Natarani Amphitheater, tonight.

This Journey through Ages would be met by some of the renowned classical works by Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Debussy and many more along with a premiere of Visita's new work for solo piano "Moments of Profundity".

Musician by passion and artist by heart, Shantanu regularly travel from state to state for his performances, but it is very inspiring when he says, “My first performance on stage was at the age of 4 for a charity concert at Blind Association of Ahmedabad. I was playing harmonium at that time.” He started learning piano at the age of 17 and Piano has been his favorite instrument ever after. “Ph.d in this field is what I wish to do next,” answers Shantanu when asked about his future plans to which we wish him good luck.

Founded by Mrinalini Sarabhai and Vikram Sarabhai in 1949, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts has been actively promoting arts by providing podium for passionate artists. Over the last 20 years of its existence, Natarani has presented performers like Amjad Ali Khan, Anupam and Kiron Kher, Javed Akhtar, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Rahul Bose, ShabanaAzmi, Zakir Hussain, Indian Ocean, Nandita Das and many others.

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