Arun Rao

1 half of DUO CHAGALL, classical strings with guts!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

The last of our Autumn Sounds 2020 is going online tomorrow evening Fri27nov@7pm! Don't miss it, lots of great music mostly by revered Ludwig including BOTH violin Romances and a cracking aria from Fidelio. check it & the previous 2 concerts at https://t.co/HJZiL0dpoy

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

Still, nice to come on TOP for once!!!

[Sharon Carty @IrishMezzo]

I am fully aware that artists are not front line medics but this made my heart so sad. I really want to know what the respondees to this survey did to occupy themselves at home in lockdown. #really

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

That's maybe truer for Singapore. I haven't seen too many hawkers this side of the Royal Canal... Also I think they mean visual artists - I'm sure musicians don't come into that category (we're probably even LESS useful ):( ).

[Sharon Carty @IrishMezzo]

I am fully aware that artists are not front line medics but this made my heart so sad. I really want to know what the respondees to this survey did to occupy themselves at home in lockdown. #really

[Sharon Carty @IrishMezzo]

I am fully aware that artists are not front line medics but this made my heart so sad. I really want to know what the respondees to this survey did to occupy themselves at home in lockdown. #really

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

Only two hours to the 'live' premiere of DUO CHAGALL's Hugh Lane recital on their YouTube channel, a must see for afficionados of classical AND contemporary music: duets by Beethoven ('Eyeglass') & Mozart (G Major), and Irish composers Stephen Gardner ('A…https://t.co/Kg7L8ptf2w

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@jamesmeredithd1 @FriseSally @jessicaduchen Maybe we, the performers, need to consider a career move... 🙃

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

and come celebrate the Choctaws, a truly great bunch!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

Tomorro special: #StephenGardner's 'The Gift' @JamesJoyceCentr &on my birthday as well... Tx Steph! (with Simon our sound guy), already @strokestownpark last wk where #EllenDemos & I met Choctaw poet #LeAnneHowe & earlier this evening @EPICMuseumCHQ with Chief @alexpetcucolan!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@JenniferStumm More Brazil nuts (his parents)...

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@StevenIsserlis Those are good dreams! I dream I arrive on stage without concert clothes...

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

DUO CHAGALL Sunday@TheHughLane, great concert of music for violin, cello &...guitar, with our TUDublin colleague Marco Ramelli. Come and check out Leo Brouwer's amazing Cello Sonata, it's an Irish Premiere and it's BIG!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@LeoBrouwer39 Happy belated birthday to you, Maestro! Your Cello Sonata will be played here in Dublin on Sunday along with Villa-Lobos's Choros bis for Vln&Clo and Paganini's Terzetto. What a piece! (just finished memorising) #TheHughLane

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@merriman27 As Debussy fan and classical harp lover, you're bound to enjoy our 2nd Autumn Sounds concert this wedn at the Ballroom, Farmleigh: Danses (with str. 5tet), String 4tet, Sonata (fl.vla,hrp), etc;I doubt you'll have heard a harpist like Sivan!Do come along,it's free!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@Fingalcoco Looking forward to tomorrow (Autumn Sounds first concert) despite the weird lead up to this year's series. Hope you can make it, or next Wednesday, perhaps? Very best wishes from Gillian and myself!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

@alavin1 Hoping to see you tomorrow or next Wednesday at the Ballroom for Autumn Sounds; the music is so good we couldn't stop smiling at yesterday's rehearsal with the wonderful pianist François Zeitouni (here between flautist Ann Macken & mezzo Sharon Carty). 🖐️Duo Chagall

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

Stunning songs by Ravel, Debussy & Caplet for tomorrow's concert in Farmleigh, the first Autumn Sounds evening. Sharon is mad about the Madécasses!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

That's it! No more Schumann chamber music left, but what a series! Thanks to our wonderful guests Arisa, Lance, the two Davids and Pablo!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

2 great couples! Merci Olga Monakh/Nicolas Bringuier for joining us in Villeneuve/Tarn last Thursday, our best chambr 🎹🎻 concert ever!

[Arun Rao @aragiwi]

Sensational place for a concert of German Romantic music: Les Gorges du Tarn in the ... south of France!