TCHAIKOVKSY

Bhargava Kulkarni is a 15-year-old student at the Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan. Bhargava started learning the cello as a four-year old in the local Suzuki program with Molly Rebeck. Later he studied with Horacio Contreras and Richard Aaron. For the past six years, he has been studying with Prof. Amir Eldan at the University of Michigan. His repertoire includes concertos by Haydn, Elgar, Davidov, Kabalevsky, Saint-Saens, Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky and others, sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms, suites by Bach and Cassado, and many short pieces for cello and piano. Bhargava has also played chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and more. He has won several local competitions, the MTNA (Michigan) competition in the junior division as well as the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Young Artist competition. He has also held leadership chair positions at the All State High School orchestra and Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra.

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