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VIOLIN & VIOLA
Vijay ChalasaniGroup Class Instructor
Private Lesson Teacher |
South Asian-American violist Vijay Chalasani is a performer, scholar, teaching-artist, and advocate for diversity and equity, whose work focuses on the performance practice of music of the last five centuries.
Equally at home on both modern and historical violas, Chalasani has been featured as a soloist in repertoire ranging from Telemann and Graun to Walton and Feldman. An avid advocate for contemporary music, Chalasani was the soloist in the US premiere of Vinko Globokar’s chamber-theater piece Blinde Zeit with members of the Callithumpian Consort, supervised by the composer. He has also performed with violist-composer Garth Knox, pianist-conductor Stephen Drury, and the Inverted Space Ensemble, and coached with many living composers including Vijay Iyer, Kamala Sankaram, and Nicole Mitchell.
Chalasani performs frequently on period instruments with ensembles such as American Bach Soloists, Boulder Bach Festival, and Sinfonia Spirituosa, as well as in chamber music performances of works from the classical and romantic eras on historical instruments.
His research on original viola pedagogy and performance practices of the long 19th century has led to performance collaborations and conference presentations at the Universities of Oxford and Huddersfield (UK), as well as a recording of works by Tchaikovsky and Fuchs made by the Accordes! International Chamber Orchestra released in 2020.
Since becoming a permanent resident of Canada in early 2023, Chalasani has performed with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Born in Northern California, he is grateful to now reside on Treaty One territory in Winnipeg with his wife Ruth Denton.
Equally at home on both modern and historical violas, Chalasani has been featured as a soloist in repertoire ranging from Telemann and Graun to Walton and Feldman. An avid advocate for contemporary music, Chalasani was the soloist in the US premiere of Vinko Globokar’s chamber-theater piece Blinde Zeit with members of the Callithumpian Consort, supervised by the composer. He has also performed with violist-composer Garth Knox, pianist-conductor Stephen Drury, and the Inverted Space Ensemble, and coached with many living composers including Vijay Iyer, Kamala Sankaram, and Nicole Mitchell.
Chalasani performs frequently on period instruments with ensembles such as American Bach Soloists, Boulder Bach Festival, and Sinfonia Spirituosa, as well as in chamber music performances of works from the classical and romantic eras on historical instruments.
His research on original viola pedagogy and performance practices of the long 19th century has led to performance collaborations and conference presentations at the Universities of Oxford and Huddersfield (UK), as well as a recording of works by Tchaikovsky and Fuchs made by the Accordes! International Chamber Orchestra released in 2020.
Since becoming a permanent resident of Canada in early 2023, Chalasani has performed with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Born in Northern California, he is grateful to now reside on Treaty One territory in Winnipeg with his wife Ruth Denton.