An evening of Opera Arias and Art Songs

Start Date : 8^th-September-2019

Dinai Rentta, pianist

Dinaibo Rentta started music lessons when he was right years old, and counts Shillong's famed concert pianist, Neil Nongkynrih, as his mentor. He has completed the Licentiate of Trinity College London exams and is dedicated to increasing his music abilities in performance and teaching. He had learned from and performed with different artists from India and abroad, covering a variety of genres from classical, to jazz and pop. He is a popular teacher at the Institute of Music Dynamics in Gurgaon, as well as being greatly in demand as a répetiteur and accompanist.

Sparsh Bajpai, soprano

Sparsh Bajpai, a young soprano from Delhi, started her training in Western Classical music at age 15 with the esteemed vocal coach and concert artiste Situ Singh Buehler. It was with Ms. Buehler where she discovered her love for classical music and decided to continue learning to eventually pursue it professionally. Sparsh has been performing professionally in Delhi since then and got to perform as a soloist for the first time in Neemrana Music Foundation's Mozart Magic in India (2012). She then got the opportunity to perform in Paris' Cite de la Musique in the opera "Orfeo" at the age of 16 under the tutelage of Françoise Lasserre, following which she gave her first solo performance in Seoul, South Korea. In 2018, Sparsh won the first of it's kind National Classical Singing competition Voices of India held in the NCPA, Mumbai.

Sparsh has essayed the roles of Stephano (Romeo and Juliet), Concha (The Jewish Boy), Papagena (The Magic Flute) and Amore (L'Egisto) among others. She has been a part of many ensembles in Delhi and performs with her current ensemble Lyric Ensemble of Delhi frequently. Sparsh has also attended numerous master classes with revered coaches such as Richard Stokes, Robert Alderson, Benjamin Appl, Françoise Lasserre, Ulrike Sonntag to name a few. She is currently completing her Master's degree in Music Performance from the Royal College of Music in London.