Chelsea de Souza ’16

January 2015

India Project 2015 (Classical Music Tour)

Chelsea de Souza ’16 (Politics and Piano Performance) conducted a recital and masterclass tour in India with her sister Chloe over Winter Term, 2015. The sisters worked with concert and music-education organizations in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. These masterclasses provided local music students with specialized instruction in voice and piano, while the concerts modeled concepts introduced in the lessons and masterclasses. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, the sisters were glad for the opportunity to invest through performance and education in those same communities which fostered their musical growth. Chelsea and Chloe were honored to have been personally invited to perform at theMonte Music Festival in Goa, an annual festival conceived to bring together Western and Indian classical forms of music. In culmination of their tour, they presented Western classical styles of music, along with a traditional folk song in Konkani, which is the heritage language of Goa.