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- Ashan_Pillai abstract "Ashan Pillai (born 1969 in Colombo, Sri Lanka) is a British violist. He was educated as a music and academic scholar at Merchant Taylors School, London and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and the Juilliard School, New York City. His principal teachers were John White, Donald McInnes and Karen Tuttle.Between 1994 and 1998 he won several prizes at international and national competitions including the Tertis and Rome International Competitions, the Royal Overseas League and Park Lane Group Competitions in London and Artists International in New York. These successes led to acclaimed debuts in London's Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room (1997–1999), New York's Carnegie Hall and festivals throughout the world including Salzburg, Tanglewood, Banff, Ravinia, Aspen, Casals (Puerto Rico, France and Barcelona), and Schleswig-Holstein. He has premiered works ( many dedicated for him) by noted Spanish composers, Anton Garcia Abril, Leonardo Balada, Francisco Fleta Polo etc.. and on an international stage, works by Krystof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm and Gavin Bryars.Pillai has performed as soloist under the batons of Christian Zacharias, Eiji Oue, Andrew Parrott, Christopher Hogwood, Robert King, Lawrence Foster, with the English, Gulbenkian, Czech, Andorran and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, as well as I Musici, London and New York, several Spanish orchestras and collaborated with the likes of Lynn Harrell, Zacarias, the Kreutzer and Brodsky Quartets, and the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt.He was assistant principal violist in the English Chamber Orchestra (1995–2000), co-founding member of the Mobius Ensemble (London 1997–2006) violist in the Zukerman Chamber Players ( New York 2004-2010 ), the string quintet led by Pinchas Zukerman and is currently Principal Viola with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra ( 2000- ). Pillai is Professor of Viola at ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) (from 2001), the Conservatori Superior del Liceu in Barcelona (from 2008) and visiting professor at the University Alfonso X in Madrid ( from 2012 ). In 2014 he was appointed professor in Musica en Compostela, the prestigious summer festival which specializes in Spanish music.As a recording artist, Pillai has recorded widely for EMI, Naxos, ASV, Altara, Verso, Meridian, Bel, Columna and Oehms Classics including sonatas by Brahms, Bax, Debussy, Lluís Benejam, and Schubert, Gerhard, and concerti by Hoffmeister and Mozart.Pillai edited the 12 Estudios o caprichos de mediana dificultad (12 Studies or Capriccios of Medium Difficulty) for viola solo (1881) by José María Beltrán Fernández (1827–1907), published by Clivis Publications.".
- Ashan_Pillai birthDate "1969".
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- Ashan_Pillai birthPlace Sri_Lanka.
- Ashan_Pillai birthYear "1969".
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- Ashan_Pillai nationality Great_Britain.
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- Ashan_Pillai occupation Viola.
- Ashan_Pillai residence Barcelona.
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