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Param Vir's settings of TAGORE poetry feature in the City of London Festival this summer!
World Premiere:
He Begins His Great Trance (BBC Singers)
British Premiere:
Wheeling Past the Stars (Patricia Rozario and Rohan de Saram)

Rabindranath Tagore
(1861 - 1941)
image © Nick White | ParamVir.netDelhi-born composer Param Vir is a leading figure in contemporary music. Now based in London, his compositional output includes works in several genres that include chamber music, symphonic music and opera / music-theatre. His works have been performed by major ensembles, orchestras and opera houses, and presented at several international festivals. Apart from new music-theatre works in the pipeline, Param Vir has also embarked on a major long-term initiative to integrate classical Indian music into mainstream contemporary music, and is developing ideas for collaborative work with prominent soloists of Indian classical music. |
Param Vir recently completed a commission from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, inspired by Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture Cloud Gate. The resulting work Between Earth and Sky was performed to acclaim by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Hammersmith Town Hall on 24 November 2006. The work was conducted by Alexander Rumpf.

Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park - photograph courtesy Nag-Bushan Odekar
FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES:
OTHER RECENT PERFORMANCES:
Wheeling Past the Stars - world premiere on 7 November, 2007 Suedwestrundfunk, Stuttgart - Tagore settings for soprano and violoncello (Patricia Rozario and Rohan de Saram) Commissioned by Suedwestrundfunk, Germany
Hayagriva performance by Klangforum Wien, 26 Sep. 2007 at Warsaw Autumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music
Between Earth and Sky, 24 November 2006, BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. by Alexander Rumpf, Hammersmith Town Hall
Horse Tooth White Rock - Flanders Philharmonic, Anterwerp, 23 October
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT: