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Biography

Chanda Van­der­Hart grad­u­ated from high school a National Merit Scholar, and attended the pres­ti­gious East­man School of Music on a George East­man Merit Schol­ar­ship, grad­u­at­ing with dis­tinc­tion with a Bach­e­lor of Music degree in Piano Per­for­mance under Dr. Dou­glas Humpherys.

 

A Ful­bright Grant recip­i­ent, Chanda did her grad­u­ate work in Milan and Vienna, study­ing under numer­ous teach­ers includ­ing David Aron­son, Maria Grazia Bell’Occhio, Julius Drake, Anna Fre, Car­olyn Hague, David Lutz, Kristin Oker­lund, Antoinette Van Zab­ner and the Altenberg Trio. She received a Per­for­mance Diploma in Opera Coach­ing from the Vienna Con­ser­va­tory in 2005, and com­pleted her Master’s Degree in Lied and Ora­to­rium Accom­pa­ni­ment in 2006.

She is cur­rently a work­ing on a post-graduate diploma in vocal accom­pa­ni­ment with the renowned Julius Drake which she will com­plete in July, 2012, and is a PhD can­di­date in musi­col­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity for Music in Vienna. She has also par­tic­i­pated in mas­ter classes with out­stand­ing musi­cians includ­ing Bar­bara Bon­ney, Hel­mut Deutsch, Julius Drake, Matthias Goerne, Wolf­gang Holz­mair, Rudolf Jansen, Paul Katz, Ange­lika Kirch­schlager, Wal­ter Moore, Jard van Nes, Wol­fram Rieger, Bir­gid Stein­berger, Roman Trekel and Roger Vig­noles.

A spe­cial­ist in col­lab­o­ra­tive and cham­ber music, both with singers and instru­men­tal­ists, Chanda has per­formed through­out Europe and North Amer­ica on stages includ­ing London’s Wig­more Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein, and has coached, col­lab­o­rated with and/or accom­pa­nied such musi­cians as Romana Beu­tel, Johan Botha,  Kata­rina Bradic, Yalilé Car­dona Alonso,  Huub Claessens, Asa Elm­gren, Fred­erike Faust, Doina Fis­cher, Ronald Fuchs, Tamara Gallo, Michael Gutier­rez, Gün­ter Haumer, Mag­dalena Hof­mann,  Falko Hönisch, Nan Hughes, Sebas­t­ian Hupp­mann, Alek­sey Igudes­man, Richard Hyung-ki Joo, Alexan­der Kaim­bacher, Julia Koci, Christina Lam­berti, Joanna Luto, Anthony Mill­ner, Rusalina Mochu­cova, Elis­a­beth Mus­gar, Jens Mus­gar, Rebecca Nelsen, Dominik Nos­titz, Jen­nifer O’Loughlin, Renate Pokupic, Deb­o­rah Polaski, Emilio Pons, Bryan Roth­fuss, Jörg Schnei­der, Wicus Slab­bert, Michael Spyres, Nina Taran­dek, Sarah Tuleweit, Mar­tin Vacha, Mar­i­anne Vidal, Sebas­t­ian Vit­tucci, Heimir Vium, Thomas Wein­hap­pel and Michael Williams among many others.

In 2008, Chanda recorded, with cel­list Ronald Fuchs, both sonatas for cello and piano on the his­tor­i­cal “Brahms­flügel” in Mürz­zuschlag, Aus­tria, and was fea­tured in a radio report on Ö1 play­ing solo Brahms on the his­tor­i­cal instru­ment. She released a fur­ther his­tor­i­cal instru­ment CD for cello and piano in 2010 fea­tur­ing the little-known works of Brahms’ con­tem­po­rary, Robert Fuchs. She has won prizes at the Brahms Inter­na­tional Lied Com­pe­ti­tion in Poertscharch (2008), and Gradus ad Par­nas­sum in Italy (2005), and was a semi-finalist at the Wig­more Hall/Kohn Foun­da­tion Inter­na­tional Song Com­pe­ti­tion (2007).

She enjoys good work­ing rela­tion­ships with numer­ous addi­tional orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing includ­ing the Broad­way Con­nec­tion, Ensem­ble LUX, Mid-America Music (New York, Zlin, Viena, Syros), the Brahms Museum Mürz­zuschlag, the Feld­kirch Fes­ti­val (Feld­kirch), Prayner Con­ser­va­tory for Music and Dra­matic Arts (Vienna), Prosce­nium Artists’ Man­age­ment, the Vienna Inter­na­tional School, Aus­tro­con­cert (Vienna), Fest­spiel­haus (St. Pöl­ten), the Per­form­ing Arts Com­pany (Vienna), Schön­herr (Bul­garia, Vienna, Ser­bia), Vacha Voice+Music (Markt Piest­ing), Verein 08 (Vienna) and Chor Jung-Wien (Vienna).

In 2006, she founded, with vio­lin­ist Anna Lea Ste­fáns­dót­tir, “Tale­spin –Musi­cal Tales for Big & Small”, a project which pro­duces children’s pro­grams by com­bin­ing sto­ry­telling, com­mis­sioned new music, and orig­i­nal graphic design in a live-concert for­mat. www.talespin.eu

Since 2010, she reg­u­larly holds a 5-day Bel Canto mas­ter­class together with soprano Rusalina Mochukova in Vienna.

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