Ronojit Bhyan & Nick Taylor - Evening of Piano

PROGRAMME

Serge Rachmaninoff Preludes op23: No’s 1-10

Frédéric Chopin - Ballade No 4 in F minor
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Scarlatti - Sonata’s in C minor (K139) & Eb major (K508)

Debussy Preludes - Les fees sont d’exquises danseuses, General Levine & Feux d’artifice
Liszt - Sonetto 104 del Petraca & Vallee D’Obermann

Nick Taylor Biography

Nick joined the army at 17, training at Kneller Hall, studying band arranging and harmony before arriving at the Coldstream Guards band. His role there was playing clarinet, violin and piano. Nick's main instrument was the piano which he studied with John Barstow from the Royal College of music. During this period Nick also performed Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ on numerous occasions.

After leaving the army in 1985, Nick attended the Colchester Institute studying piano with Robert Bell, a former Gold Medal winner at the Guildhall School of Music. Nick was a member of several chamber groups, performing works such as the Schumann Piano Quintet, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Khachaturian piano trios. On graduating college with a BA (Hons) in music he became a music teacher at Stamford School in Lincolnshire until his retirement.

Nick has performed many different piano concertos with orchestras around the country: Tchaikowsky B flat minor, Rachmaninoff Concertos 2 and 3, Beethoven Op 37 No. 3, Op 58, No. 4, and the triple concerto Op. 56, Mozart D minor (K466), Bb major (K456) and A major K488, Grieg and Schumann A minor Piano Concertos, Mendelssohn 2nd Concerto, Gershwin F minor Concerto and smaller scale works such as the Litolf Scherzo, J. S. Bach Brandenburg concertosand his own Piano Rhapsody.

As a soloist, Nick has performed numerous piano recitals around the country, including works from all genres and musical periods, with a strong passion for the romantic period. His role as an accompanist has covered many years of varied and challenging repertoire.

Nick has a particular love for composing his own music focusing mainly on orchestral music, much of which has been performed by various orchestras around the country, sometimes with Nick himself as the conductor.

Nick teaches piano and violin at Yamaha Northumberland.

Ronojit Bhuyan Biography

Ronojit Bhuyan is a Concert Pianist residing in London. He has recently achieved a

Masters of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction, studying under the guidance of

Gabriele Baldocci and Mikhail Kazakevich at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and

Dance. Currently, Ronojit is enrolled in a one-year Artist Diploma program at Trinity

Laban, which will serve as preparation for his PhD studies commencing in 2025. He is

grateful to the Udmi Devi Trust and Trinity College London Scholarship for their kind

patronage towards his studies for the years 2022-2025.

He has achieved notable recognition, winning the John Halford competition and

securing second place in the Gladys Puttick competition for improvisation in 2023 at

Trinity Laban. Since commencing his studies in London in September 2022, Ronojit has

performed in over 50 solo and chamber concerts at various prestigious venues

throughout the UK, including St. James’s Piccadilly, the Polish Club, Kensington, the

Lansdowne Club in Mayfair for the Bluthner Piano Series, the Nehru Centre in London,

Buckingham Gate Suites, The Royal St. Katharine, and the Edinburgh Society of

Musicians. Additionally, he was the winner of the Brillante Piano Festival and a finalist

in the Conbrio Piano competition in Mumbai in 2020. During the lockdown period,

Ronojit and his mother, Violinist Sunita Bhuyan, delivered more than 85 online concerts

from March 2020 to October 2021, featuring performances for platforms such as Rolling

Stones India, Amazon, NDTV Live, Hungama Music Festival, Better India, and Stage Arts

Live.

Education and Experience

After successful completion of his undergraduate studies in Music from Trinity College

London (Diploma-LTCL) and Psychology from St. Xaviers, College, Mumbai, Ronojit has

become an active Pianist and accompanist. His experience includes playing on a variety

of Piano instruments /organs, harpsichord and church choir music. Ronojit has

performed for several Masterclasses, some of the teachers include- Pascal Roge, Can

Cakmur, Martino Tirimo, Pervez Mody and Min Kwon. He has collaborated with the

National Centre of Performing Arts and the Symphony Orchestra of India, performing

the Bach Keyboard Concerto no.5 BWV 1056, Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 op.102

and Dvorak Piano Quintet no.1. Additionally, Ronojit has made appearances on various

news channels and television broadcasts during music festivals and live discussions. In

December 2023, he was interviewed by Trinity College London, where he shared

insights on the importance of graded music examinations and his musical journey to

London.

Pedagogy and Research

Ronojit is a working professional in field of Public/Private Piano teaching and Pedagogy

for over 6 years since

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