Tribute concert for Rani Vijaya Devi

Bengaluru: Rani Vijaya Devi was born to Yuvaraja Kanteerava Narasimharaja Wadiyar and Yuvarani Kempu Cheluvaja Amanni of Mysore, their second child and eldest daughter, in 1922.

She started studying the piano at the age of six when her grandmother invited the nuns of the Good Shepherd Convent of Mysore to teach the ladies of the court English and her grandchildren music.

She also studied Carnatic music and the veena under the renowned maestro Veena Seshanna. Not only that, but she passed the fellowship examination of the Trinity College of Music, London, and studied for a year and a half with Dr. Alfred Mistowski, an examiner of the Trinity College of Music who had settled down in Mysore during the war years.

 She gave a number of charity concerts in India and played on All India Radio for the Music Society of Hong Kong. She also played two-piano concerts with Annarosa Taddei, an Italian pianist, in Hong Kong in 1965 and 1966, and they also gave a number of concerts in the major cities in India.

The International Music and Arts Society gratefully acknowledges Rani Vijaya Devi’s contribution to the arts as a performer and patron who brought some of the finest exponents of the performing and visual arts to our city.

This concert by Syed Fateen Ahmed, a 14-year-old western classical music student and pianist, is a musical tribute on the occasion of the birth centenary of Rani Vijaya Devi Kotda-Sangani, a concert pianist and veena player, who founded the International Music and Arts Society and augmented Bengaluru's existing cultural landscape by providing an international forum for Indian and foreign musicians and artists.

Where: Bangalore International Center, Domlur

When: August 26, 6:30

Entry: Free