Winter Concert

Date: 24 Nov 24

Time: 7.30pm onwards

Location:KNMA Saket

About the Event:

#weekendsatknma presents Winter Concert by students of Aching Shaiza At KNMA, Saket. Don't miss this unique opportunity to witness a magical evening of live music!

Opening: Aching Shaiza: O mio babbino caro - Puccini

Lineup:

Sarthak Upamanyu: Etude Op. 10, No.5 by Frederic Chopin

Chinmayi Bindal: Tomorrow from Annie

Amaya & Nick Booker-Soni: I can do anything - from the musical Annie get your Guns.

Uma Waqif: Yesterday - Beatles

Siddhi Jairath: Panis Angelicus - Cesar Frank & Sylvester Wager

Short speech: Guest of Honour

Lineup:

Naintara Sitaram: Creep - Radiohead

Anoushka Menezes and Kyra Menezes: Birds of a feather - Billie Eilish

Adeeraj Dhar - A whole new world from Aladdin

Tara Gupta: Love you in the dark - Adele

Veer Kalra: Just the two of us - Bill Withers and Grover Washington, Jr.

Tara Sarna: Winner takes it all - ABBA

Gauri Karan: Voi Che Sapete - from “The Marriage of Figaro” Mozart

Ayesha Chenoy: Your song - Elton John

Samu Bajaj: My heart will go on - Celine Dion

Nasya Guliani: Lovely - Billie Eilish

Aalaya Chandola: Bumble Boogie - Jack Fina

Vandana Munjal: la vie enrose - Edith Piaf.

Nadia Behramfram & Sharanya Arun & Devansh Arora & Parimal Bhatia: Die with a smile - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

Viren Burman: For tonight - Giveon

Sameer Nayar: Take on me - Aha

Sharanya Arun: Memory from Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Manheka Shimray: Freedom from Django

Alisha Berry: I have nothing - Whitney Houston

Choir: Sanctus (based on Canon by Pachelbel) - Libera & Robert Prizeman

Violin accompaniment: Sharanya Arun

Guest of Honour

Mrs. Sonia Khan

Managing Director, India National Youth Orchestra & Chorus

Director, Curator Global Cultural Programmes of BRICS Alliance

Head, ABRSM India

Aching Shaiza

Pianist, Mezzo-Soprano, music educator and vocal coach based in New Delhi.

She graduated from Patkai Christian College, Nagaland and studied piano under the tutelage of late Mrs. Margaret A.Shishak, M.Mus Michigan University. She studied Jazz piano, composition, drama and musical theatre at Caux, Switzerland and is the founder of the “Collective Artist Project” whose repertoire ranges from Classical to Jazz, Broadway to Pop.

She holds ATCL, Dip. ABRSM, Performer’s Certificate both Piano and Voice from the associated board of Trinity College of Music and The Royal School of Music, London.

She taught IB music and HS Choir at The American Embassy School, The British School and at The Delhi School of music. She has worked as vocal coach for high school Musical Productions: My fair lady, Mama Mia, Oliver, Sound of music, Jekyll and Hyde.

She has performed at the Birmingham symphony hall, International convention London, Switzerland, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, NCPA Mumbai, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Lakmé fashion weeks and many places in India, Europe and Asia conducting workshops and performing with visiting concert artists from around the world.

Her students, many of whom has won National and international (Piano/Voice) competitions, prize winners and accolades for their level of technique and quality performances got accepted and are pursuing music degree programs at Harvard University, Longy School of Bard, Royal College of Music London, Manhattan School of Music, Ithaca NYC, The New school in NYC, Berkeley School of Music to name a few.

She firmly believes Artists as a catalyst in bridging the gap amongst the world’s divide, by sharing the message of hope, peace, forgiveness, unity and love through art.

As “Change Makers” she has collaborated with Romanian opera singer, South Korean pianist, Palestine- American writer and photographer, Sweden theatre artist, Norwegian music composer, Egyptian architect and have organized series of concerts as part of the Arts team - Initiative of Change, Switzerland.

Aching Shaiza is a piano and voice faculty at Caux Artist Program, Switzerland and the Head of Department for voice at THEME Music