About

Cellist Rajan Kapoor is an avid solo and chamber musician who has performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Rajan is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Hartt School as a student of Professor Mihai Tetel while working as a Teaching Artist with the Worcester Chamber Music Society. Rajan recently received 1st Prize in the 2018 Grand Junction Symphony Young Artist Competition which culminated in performances of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the orchestra in the fall of that year. He was also recently awarded 1st Prize in the 2018 Connecticut Bach Festival Competition. Rajan has gained additional recognition in the Hellam and Mondavi Young Artist Competitions and plays on an 1855 Goldmann cello generously loaned to him by the Carlsen Cello Foundation. Rajan is currently serving as an orchestral fellow with the Stamford Symphony and is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Teaching Artist fellow. He is the assistant director of the concert series An die Musik NYC.

Music

Bach, J.S. - Cello Suites Nos. 1-4
Bach, J.S. - Sonatas for Viola da Gamba Nos. 1-3
Beach, Amy Marcy - Dreaming from Four Sketches
Beethoven, Ludwig van - 7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen'
Beethoven, Ludwig van - Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-3
Brahms, Johannes - Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Bruch, Max - Kol Nidrei
Chopin, Frédéric - Cello Sonata in G minor
Crumb, George - Sonata for Solo Cello
Debussy, Claude - Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
Fauré, Gabriel - Après un rêve
Franck, César - Sonata in A Major
Handel/Halvorsen - Passacaglia for Violin and Cello
Paganini, Niccolò - Mose-Fantasia (Variations on a Theme by Rossini)
Pärt, Arvo - Spiegel im Spiegel
Popper, David - Hungarian Rhapsody
Rachmaninov, Sergei - Cello Sonata in G minor
Ravel, Maurice - Sonata for Violin and Cello
Saint-Saëns, Camille - Le Cygne (The Swan)
Schumann, Robert - Fantasiestücke
Shostakovich, Dmitri - Cello Sonata in D minor

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