Canadian Classical guitarist Daniel Ramjattan will carry out a recital at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church on March 22. Offered by The Mates of Music at St. Thomas, this system consists of works by Bach, Mertz, Tsujita, and others.
The Mates of Music at St. Thomas’s current a sequence of group recitals, lectures, music training, and assist the The St. Thomas’s Choristers, a choral music program for teenagers aged 7 to 17. Earlier seasons have featured artists resembling cellist Elinor Frey, the Eybler Quartet, and Lute Legends Ensemble, amongst others.
Classical Guitarist Daniel Ramjattan
Daniel studied guitar privately with mentors resembling Patrick Roux, Dr. Jeffrey McFadden, the late nice Bruce Holzman, Lorenzo Micheli, and Jorge Caballero, amongst others. He went on to win competitions in Ottawa and on the OMFA Provincial Guitar Competitors, inserting second within the FCMF Nationwide Guitar Competitors in 2016.
As we speak, Ramjattan is a busy performer who has appeared on phases and in recitals throughout North America, in Japan, and Trinidad and Tobago. He has additionally carried out at festivals throughout Canada and internationally, together with the 21C Music Competition, Open Ears, Ottawa Chamberfest, Italy’s Livorno Music Competition, Vienna’s Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, the Vancouver Classical Guitar Competition, and lots of others.
Alongside his performing calendar, Dr. Ramjattan is a recording artist, guitar professor and lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier College, and on the Oscar Peterson Faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music, in addition to in his personal Toronto studio.
As a devoted educator, his college students have gained RCM Gold medal, and gone on to check at undergraduate and graduate packages throughout Canada. He’s a wanted adjudicator at competitions.
He has lectured on the subject of efficiency anxiousness at McGill College, the College of Toronto, Mount Royal College, and different establishments.
The Live performance
After the efficiency, there will likely be a post-concert chat adopted by a lightweight reception.
In an interview printed on The Mates of Music at St. Thomas weblog, Ramjattan mentions that the post-concert chat will likely be about music efficiency anxiousness, which was the subject of his doctoral dissertation. He additionally teaches college students to handle their anxieties at Wilfred Laurier College.
Primarily, he talks about studying to simply accept the anxiousness whereas engaged on altering the response to it. He factors out, for instance, that the heightened bodily responses that happen earlier than a efficiency can both be felt as anxiousness, as a type of avoidance. The alternative may also be true.
‘However an individual having the identical physiological expertise might as an alternative say, ‘Oh, that is lightning flowing by my physique, making me highly effective. How thrilling. I’m pumped as much as play. I’m pumped as much as sing. That is what it feels wish to be galvanized, to be able to share my music with others.’ That may be a fully completely different expertise, although physiologically pleasure and concern are coded the identical approach in our physique. It’s solely how we interpret the sensation in our thoughts that makes it anxiousness or not.’
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
