“The string quartet has been the prime basic factor of my entire musical philosophy”, said Mehli Mehta, a very long time ago, and it is the chamber music that he spoke of, the very soul of western classical music, that is the heart of the Sangat Chamber Music Festival.
Sangat was a simple idea fuelled by the enthusiasm of Mehroo Jeejeebhoy – Founder Trustee of the MMMF, and Harvey and Ralph DeSouza, both accomplished and successful musicians in London. It was a coming together of musicians of Indian origin with extraordinary musicians from different parts of the world, interacting with local musicians, music students and teachers.
Over 16 years the Festival has grown, experimented and reinvented itself, meeting the changing needs of the visiting musicians, music students, teachers and audiences in Mumbai. The festival is held in December each year and has a spirit that is hard to describe – intense, energetic and innovative.
The Sangat Chamber Music Festival was launched in 1996. Over the years internationally acclaimed musicians from Europe, the United States and the Far East have participated in the Festival.
• Adele Anthony • Andrew Watkinson • Anthony Marwood • Axel Strauss • Carolin Widmann • Catherine Menneson • Cho-Liang Lin • Dan Zhu • Ellen de Pasquale • Emi Ohi Resnick • Enrico Alvares • Farhad Bilimoria • Gabrielle Lester • Genevieve Laurenceau • Gil Shaham • Harvey de Souza • Helen Paterson • Helena Rathbone • Indira Koch • Ivo Sedlacek • Jacqueline Shave • Jagdish Mistry • Jason Posnock • Jennifer Michiko Gilbert • Jennifer Orchard • Julia Fischer • Julian Leaper • Katerina Nazarova • Katharine Gowers • Ken Aiso • Malavika Gopal • Maria Cooper • Maya Magub • Maya Shankar • Priya Mitchell • Semmy Stahlhammer • Sigrun Edvaldsdottir • Simon Blendis • So Jin Kim • Sunita De Souza • Tamiko Kobayashi • Ulrich Poschner • Yael Lalande
• Abhijit Sengupta • Alan Gilbert • Anne Soren • Annette Isserlis • Carla Maria Rodrigues • Catherine Bradshaw • Fiona Bonds • Garfield Jackson • Igor Polesitsky • Jean-Pascal Oswald • Keith Pascoe • Manabu Suzuki • Melissa Reardon • Ralph de Souza • Robert Smissen • Silvia Simionescu • Vivek Kamath
• Alisha Mody • Anjali Tanna • Bjorg Vaernes • Caroline Dale • Christoph Richter • David Waterman • Eric Kim • Evan Drachman • Florian Lauridon • Howard Penny • Jerome Pernoo • Joely Koos • Johan van Iersel • Johannes Moser • Julia Cleworth • Kajsa William–Olsson • Mikhail Istomin • Naomi Boole-Masterson • Nicolas Hartmann • Raman Ramakrishnan • Robert Max • Rowena Calvert • Simon Morris • Stephen Orton • Timothy Gill • Timothy Hugh • William Schofield • Wolfgang Schmidt • Xenia Jankovic
Lavine Da Costa • Lynda Houghton
Dilshad Posnock
Ruth Contractor
Andrew Marriner • Matthew Hunt • Nina Jansen
Fiona Bryan
James Ross • Stephen Stirling
Nicholas Martin
Skaila Kanga
Alexander-Sergei Ramirez
Fali Pavri • Inon Barnatan • Marialena Fernandes • Marc Neikrug • Mark Troop • Mehroo Jeejeebhoy • Olga Kern • Pallavi Mahidhara • Paul Stewart • Pervez Mody • Shani Diluka • Sheila Arnold • Suzanna Artzt
Deirdre Lobo • Lisa Tyrrell • Nigel Brookes • Patricia Rozario • Raymond Armstrong • Sorab Wadia • Zarin Ghadiali-Hodiwala
Alex Heffes • John Mayer • Sandeep Bhagwati • Vanraj Bhatia
Paranjoti Academy Chorus – Conductor: Coomi Wadia • Singing Tree Choir – Conductor: Coomi Wadia
