Savitri Grier, a Prize Winning British Violinist, Who Visited Doha Recently, Says She Feels Free While Expressing Through Violin
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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, December 12, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “The great thing about music is that we never stop learning” — Savitri Grier, prize winning British violinist people that I do not know how to By Mudassir Raja do in any other way,” Savitri added, further driving home that the string instrument is not an obsession with lassical western music is her. like a special language. The musician, who has a degree It is a whole world to in musicology from Oxford, further be explored. Music is said: “My father is a pianist and always going to be a composer. My mother, originally Clanguage and anyone can relate to an artist, is a child psychotherapist. it. It is a slightly diff erent way of My younger sister plays cello. We expressing it. are a musical family. My father, The classical European music after I insisted, arranged a teacher is a tradition that Savitri Grier, a for me. Since then, I have been British prize winning violinist, enjoying my music. Probably, when grew up with. Savitri, whose father I was 12, I decided that I would is a Briton and mother Indian, make a career as a violinist. I got especially likes the way classical admiration for my work but I think music is structured. it kills if someone tells you to play The young violinist was recently [violin]. One should play when it in Doha and performed with Qatar comes from within. Appreciation Philharmonic Orchestra at Qatar and support defi nitely give National Convention Center during encouragement.” a programme in connection with Savitri, who lives and works in Qatar British Festival. Berlin, is nowadays on trial for a job “I started playing violin when I with the Budapest Philharmonic was only four. I have struggled with Orchestra in Hungary. “It is violin a lot but it has been worth it. an amazing orchestra. I have I feel free while expressing myself performed with the orchestra and through it. This is why I continue have travelled a lot with them. I playing violin and hope I will, for have also been doing solo works and the rest of my life,” Savitri said chamber music in UK, Germany, while talking to Community just Italy, Hungary, France, Holland, before her concert at QNCC. Switzerland and Poland. I have “Violin, for me, is a way of also performed in the US, China, expressing something and means Qatar and will perform in India next of communicating something with March. I hope one day I will make it Violin, for me, is a way of expressing something and means of communicating something with people that I do not know how to do in any other way Photo by Shemeer Rasheed ‘ — Savitri Grier ’ Thursday, December 12, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY to Australia.” Speaking about her role models in the classical European music, Savitri said: “I am lucky to have some fantastic teachers. I studied for several years with David Takeno, a Japanese violinist in London. He is and will always be a huge infl uence. I have also played and practised with Nora Chastain, an American violinist in Berlin. The great thing about music is that we never stop learning. “However, my favourite contemporary violinist is Georgia- born German violinist Lisa Batiashvili.