Fenella Theodore, Piano & Hari Khalsa, Cello
Program
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cello and Piano Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19
- I. Lento. Allegro moderato
- II. Allegro scherzando
- III. Andante
- IV. Allegro mosso
About our Musical Artists
Duo Kalos was founded by cellist Hari Khalsa and pianist Fenella Theodore in 2022. The duo have performed at various venues ranging from local outreach concerts to Carnegie Hall. Most recently, they were awarded winners of the Doug Davis Composition and Performance Endowment as well as the International Artists Competition in Vienna and American Virtuoso International Music Competition. Upcoming engagements include a residency in University of California State Bakersfield this upcoming year.
Fenella and Hari are both graduates and alumni of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where Hari completed his Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance, and Fenella with her Artist Diploma in Piano Performance degree.
About Fenella: Recent solo and chamber performances have found Fenella Theordore in venues and festivals across the United States, in Europe and Asia at Duxbury Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, Summer Music Academy, EuroArts, Académie International d’été de Nice, Todi Music Masters and Illinois Summer Youth Music Faculty Recital. She was invited to perform Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in the Brandenburg Concerti Marathon alongside the String Faculty of the University of Illinois and at U of I Double Reed Day Guest Artists and Faculty concert with guest artists.
Passionate about education, she has held Associate Instructorship in Piano at Indiana University and served as Program Coordinator and Lead Instructor of the Piano Laboratory Program at the University of Illinois. She has played in master classes for Jeremy Denk, Jerome Lowenthal, Nelita True, Dominique Merlet and Michél Béroff. Her primary teachers include Monique Duphil at Oberlin Conservatory, who she studied with for five years, Arnaldo Cohen at Indiana University, Antonio Pompa-Baldi at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Timothy Ehlen and William Heiles at University of Illinois.
About Hari: Cellist Hari Khalsa is an active performer and teacher having performed in venues and festivals such as the Severance Hall, Kent Blossom Festival, Carnegie Hall, Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan, St. Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick, and other venues throughout the country and in Europe. As an orchestral cellist and chamber musician, he was a member of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra and Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, and he has appeared with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra at Kent Blossom Festival, Austin Symphony, Sinfonia da Camera and Texas Music Festival Orchestra. He is the cellist of Duo Kalos, a duo that has gained recognition having won numerous competition prizes and aims to bring further recognition to lesser known works and composers such as Lera Auerbach.
