A first recital together
On 25 June 2023, forty five of Kaushik Das’s private students gave their first recital together, at Theme Piano World in Kasba. Younger and older students took turns at a Kawai piano, with a programme of Bach, Beethoven, Grieg, Chopin and Schumann and pieces by Posca and Burgmüller along the way.
Udita Mallick opened the evening with What a Wonderful World, with Kaushik at the piano. Adrija Das hosted, and between performances she ran a quiz on the history of piano music.
Pieces to remember
Avantika Das played Chopin’s Waltz in B minor and Fazil Say’s Kumru Ballad. Maharshi Ghosh played the second movement of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 and Chopin’s Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1, and Supantha Chakraborty chose Chopin’s Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2, followed by the theme from Ratatouille.
Rose Dam Roy, already a winner at international competitions, played Posca’s By the Sea, Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words in G minor, Rachmaninoff’s Italian Polka and Schumann’s Arabeske in C, Op. 18.
The youngest players, among them Yashmega Brahma, Aayan Kasera, Miraya Agarwal and Abhijnan De, played their first pieces on stage with Kaushik sitting beside them.
A room full of families
Parents and relatives filled the hall and filmed every performance. The chief guest, Dhrubajyoti De, Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Police, spoke to the students and their families.
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