17th January 2025
On January 25th, at Holy Trinity Church, Regent Road, you can watch a star of the future performing with the Bardi alongside other classical favourites.
For his prize-winning performance, Bardi Young Musician 2025 Prakash Easwar, performs a charming, rarely heard suite for Saxophone by French composer Paule Maurice. Written between 1948 and 1955, Tableaux de Provence (Pictures of Provence) is a programmatic suite dedicated to French saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule. The movements describe the culture and scenery of Provence, south east France, where the Mules, Paule Maurice and her husband, composer Pierre Lantier, spent vacation time together.
A 15-year-old academic and music scholar at Leicester Grammar School, Prakash is a passionate musician who plays the violin, saxophone and piano. Supported by the school’s music department and inspired by his saxophone teacher, John Barker, Prakash holds Grade 8 qualifications in both piano and violin and has recently completed his ARSM diploma in saxophone, achieving a high distinction. He is an active member of the Big Band and First Orchestra, enjoys performing Bollywood, folk and jazz music, and has played violin with the Market Harborough Choral Society. Prakash has won several piano competitions at Leicester MusicFest and regularly performs in local cultural celebrations.
In addition to his musical pursuits, Prakash balances his interests with a passion for sports, particularly cricket and tennis. He is a member of his School 1st Team Cricket and plays for Kibworth Cricket Club. He finds inspiration in his violinist brother and hopes to pursue music further alongside a medical career, aspiring to become a doctor while keeping music as an integral part of his life.
Prakash’s performance is programmed alongside, in the first half, Vaughan Williams’s sumptuous Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus one of his most popular works with audiences and the composer himself, who said he loved the tune all his life. Opening with Beethoven’s The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, the concert concludes with the last of Haydn’s 104 symphonies, the ‘London Symphony‘.
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