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Ashan Pillai
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Ashan Diresh Pillai (born 1969 in Sri Lanka) is a British violist. He was educated as a music and academic scholar at Merchant Taylors School, London and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and the Juilliard School, New York City. His principal teachers were John White, Donald McInnes and Karen Tuttle. Between 1994 and 1998 he won several prizes at international and national competitions including the Tertis and Rome International Competitions, the Royal Overseas League and Park Lane Group Competitions in London and Artists International in New York. These successes led to acclaimed debuts in London's Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room (1997–1999), New York's Carnegie Hall and festivals throughout the world including Salzburg, Tanglewood, Banff, Ravinia, Aspen, Pau Casals (Puerto Rico, France and Barcelona), and Schleswig-Holstein. Pillai has performed as soloist under the batons of Christian Zacharias, Christopher Hogwood, Robert King, Lawrence Foster, with the English, Gulbenkian, Czech, Andorran and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, as well as I Musici, London and New York, and collaborated with the likes of Lynn Harrell, Zacarias, the Kreutzer and Brodsky Quartets, and the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt. He was assistant principal violist in the English Chamber Orchestra (1995–2000), co-founding member of the Mobius Ensemble (London 1997–2006) and is currently principal viola in the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (from 200
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Schwanengesang, D. 957 (arr. A. Pillai): No. 4. Standchen
572Schwanengesang, D. 957 (arr. A. Pillai): No. 7. Abschied
463Schwanengesang, D. 957 (arr. A. Pillai): No. 1. Liebesbotschaft
454Schwanengesang, D. 957 (arr. A. Pillai): No. 14. Die Taubenpost
385Schwanengesang, D. 957 (arr. A. Pillai): No. 12. Am Meer
376Scherzino
177Viola Concerto in D major: I. Allegro
1686 Nocturnes, Op. 186: Nocturne No. 2: Allegretto ma un poco vivo
159Etudes: No. 1 In C Major: Allegro
1510Damunt de tu Només les Flors
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata / Schwanengesang (Arr. for Viola and Piano) / Kalliwoda: 6 Nocturnes
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Només les Flors
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HOFFMEISTER: Works for Viola (Complete)
Hoffmeister: Complete works for Viola
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Compositors Catalans del Segle XX, Vol. 6
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Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Herzogenberg: Legenden, Op. 62
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Three Catalan Viola Sonatas
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F.A.Hoffmesiter Complete Works for Viola
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Sonatas Españolas para viola y piano: Del Campo, Fleta Polo, Gerhard & Cervelló
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata / Schwanengesang (Arr. for Viola and Piano) / Kalliwoda: 6 Noctu
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Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Complete Works for Viola
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Schubert: Arpeggione