Mandhira de Saram
Mandhira de Saram (born September 3, 1984 in London ) is a British violinist and composer who performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral violinist, primarily in the fields of classical and new improvisation music .
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De Saram comes from a family of musicians; her father is the pianist Druvi de Saram, her uncle the cellist Rohan de Saram . She first grew up in Sri Lanka , where as a child she received classical piano lessons at the age of four and the violin at the same time. Then she received a music scholarship to the North London Collegiate School , where she completed her secondary education. She was also a Leverhulme Fellow at the Junior Royal Academy of Music , where she trained as both a violinist and a pianist, and attended courses in composition and conducting. Her violin teachers included Igor Petrushevski , Howard Davis and Levon Chilingirian . She then graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters Degree with Honors in 2008 ; she received a First Place in Music Interpretation and the Worcester College Arts Prize for best result in an art subject.
De Saram is a founding member and director of the Ligeti Quartet , which operates as a string quartet on the contemporary music scene. Mark Bowler composed his Quartet for Strings for this ensemble , which was released as an album in 2017. With the Ligeti Quartet she continued to perform works by Ruth Crawford Seeger , Witold Lutosławski , Steve Reich , Sofia Gubaidulina , Gloria Coates , Raymond Warren , Cornelius Cardew and Cliff Kerr. The quartet also worked with Wadada Leo Smith , Christian Mason , Shabaka Hutchings , Laura Jurd ( Landing Ground , Stepping Back, Jumping In ), Kerry Andrew , Sean Noonan , Benjamin Tassie ( Victoria 2019 ) and Xenia Pestova and played after a tour through China in Hong Kong with the DJ Choi Sai Ho and the Japanese sound artist mamoru .
International solo and chamber music tours have taken de Saram through Europe as well as the USA, India, China and her home country Sri Lanka. Her repertoire is diverse and includes both classical standard works as well as free improvisations and new works, which were often created in collaboration with contemporary composers such as Robert Saxton or Nirmali Fenn . She regularly performs in a duo with Steve Beresford . In 2018 she presented the duo album Spinneret on Confront with the pianist Benoît Delbecq . She can also be heard on albums with Alex Ward's Item 10 , with Neil Cowley , with Maggie Nicols and with Ed Sheeran .
Web links
- Web presence
- Interview (2018)
- Mandhira de Saram at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saram, Mandhira de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British violinist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd September 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |