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An Evening of Classical & Musical Broadway!

Aching Shaiza & Neecia Majolly. (Piano & Voice)

Duration: 45 min 

Four hands Piano: Moritz Mowskowski Spanish dance Op. 12 No. ii. Moderato

Papa can you hear me? - from the movie “Yentl”

I can do anything better than you - from the musical “Annie get your gun” 

The Prayer - Celine Dion & Andrea 

6 Romanian dances - Bela Bartok

I dreamed a dream - from “Les Miserable”

Don’t rain on my parade - from the Broadway musical “Funny Girl”

Song without words Op. 67 no. 2 by Felix Mendelssohn

Non so piu cosa non - from Mozart’s opera “Marriage of Figaro”

Send in the clowns - from “A little Night Music” by Stephen Sondheim

People - from the Broadway musical “Funny Girl”

Caruso by Lucio Dalla

Four hands Piano: Moritz Mowskowski Spanish dance Op. 12 No. V. Bolero

Aching Shaiza

Pianist and Mezzo Soprano graduated from Patkai Christian College. She did her under study piano with Mrs. Margaret Anne Shishak. She holds ATCL, Dip. ABRSM, Performer’s Certificate Piano and Voice. Did Jazz piano, composition, musical theatre and drama at Caux Switzerland.

Former IB music teacher and HS Choir at The American Embassy School, The British School and at The Delhi School of music.

She has performed in London, Birmingham, Switzerland, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, NCPA Mumbai 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, many of whom are pursuing music degree programs at Harvard University, Longy School of Bard, Royal College of Music London, graduated from Manhattan School of Music, Ithaca NYC, The New school in NYC, Berkeley School of Music to name a few.

Aching Shaiza is a (Piano/Voice) faculty at Caux Artist Program, Switzerland and the Head of Department for voice at THEME Music Institute, Delhi NCR.

Neecia Majolly

Neecia Majolly is the Founder – Director of the Neecia Majolly Centre for Performing Arts, the Founder of  alternative rock outfit ’The Majolly Project’ and the Founder-President of The Majolly Music Trust, who has emerged as one of the most dynamic musical forces in India with international performances to her credit. With several music and film awards for ‘The Majolly Project’, Neecia has had her musical education in Brunei and Singapore and went on to do her degree in Music from the Western Australian Conservatorium, Perth. Her teachers include her parents, Ms. Marietta Baja, Dr. Georgina Emmanuel, Peter Cooper, Josephine Koh, Vivien Ngo, Dr. John Roberts, Sergio Snyder  and Shelagh Molyneux. Besides being a semi-retired concert pianist, Ms Neecia is also a singer/songwriter, piano tutor, celebrity vocal coach, conductor and composer. 

The Camerata (now MMT Choir), Madrigals, Etc. and Femusica (an all-women’s choir) have all earned a firm reputation in India for being unique in their choice of repertoire and quality of presentation, including releasing the first ever Western Music Classical album in the country in 2009 ‘the renaissance begins’. 

The Majolly Music Trust itself has one of the finest faculties in the country imparting music education in piano and voice studies besides having created a unique pension fund for aged and infirm musicians.

Besides being former representative of the London College of Music Examinations in Karnataka, Neecia is believed to be the first Indian Western Classical Pianist to have a piano album, ‘Pure Spa Gold Coast, released by Universal Audio, USA.

She also holds an Associate Diploma in Music Theatre from the London College of Music, Licentiate in Classical Singing & Principles of Teaching from Trinity College, London, Licentiate in Piano Performance from The Royal Schools of Music, and Fellowship in Piano Performance from Trinity College, London.

Neecia is empanelled in the Indian Council of Cultural Relations’ Reference Panel of Artistes’, and is also an Advisory Council Member of the Karnataka Artistes Association.

Recently, she was the Gold Prize Winner for Composition at the World Classical Music Awards.