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	Rohan de Saram, Cello
Program 1 Solo Cello Rohan de Saram, cello	Paul Hindemith Sonata Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) Iannis Xenakis Kottos Zoltan Kodaly Sonata op. 8
Program 2 Solo Cello Composers from the East Rohan de Saram, cello	Param Vir Flame Akira Nishimura Threnody Toshiro Mayuzumi Bunraku Ysang Yun Glissées Naresh Sohal Monody Ton That Tiet Bois Terre Younghi Pagh-Paan Aa-Ga I
Program 3 Solo Cello Rohan de Saram, cello	JS Bach Suite no. 2 (solo cello) Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Zoltan Kodaly Sonata op. 8 (solo cello)
Program 4 Solo Cello Rohan de Saram, cello	Program to be chosen from the following repertoire: JS Bach Suite no. 6 (solo cello) Henri Pousseur Paganiana I & II (solo cello) Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Hilda Paredes Zuhuy Kak (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Salvatore Sciarrino Ai Limiti Della Notte (solo cello) Pietro Locatelli Il Laberinto Armonico (transcription for cello by Rohan de Saram) (solo cello)
Program 5 Cello & Percussion East meets West Rohan de Saram, cello NN, tampura Piyassara Shilpadipathi, percussion	Hilda Paredes Zuhuy Kak (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Traditional Kandyan drum solo or tabla solo or improvisation percussion/cello Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) John Mayer Six Ragamalas for cello and tampura (written for Rohan & John Mayer)
Program 6 Duo de Saram - Sukarlan Ananda Sukarlan, piano Rohan de Saram, cello	Jack Body Nocturne (cello with piano) Tom Butler Morph (ECAT commission written for Rohan and Ananda Sukarlan) (cello with piano) Polo Vallejo Relatos (ECAT commission written for Rohan and Ananda Sukarlan) (cello with piano) Barry Conyngham Cathedral (cello with piano) Hao - Fu Zhang Crepuscule (cello with piano) Trisutji Kamal Nuzulul Qur'an, for piano solo Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Matthew Hindson Jungle Fever (cello with piano)
Program 7 Violin & Cello David Alberman, violin Rohan de Saram, cello	Program to be chosen from the following repertoire: Luciano Berio Sequenza VIII for solo violin Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Iannis Xenakis Mikka and Mikka S for violin Iannis Xenakis Kottos (solo cello) Zoltan Kodaly Duo for violin and cello Nikos Skalkottas Four Duos for violin and cello Ernst Schulhof Duo for violin and cello Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and cello Maurice Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Program 8 Viola & Cello Garth Knox, viola Rohan de Saram, cello	Program to be chosen from the following repertoire: Mathias Pintscher Janusgesicht for viola and cello Witold Lutoslawski Bucolics for viola and cello Paul Hindemith Duet for viola and cello Giacinto Scelsi Elegia per Ty for viola and cello Garth Knox Malor me bat for viola d'amore and cello Gyorgy Ligeti Sonata per viola (1991-1994) Luciano Berio Sequenza IV for solo viola Garth Knox Viola Spaces Iannis Xenakis Embellie for viola Zoltan Kodaly Sonata op. 8 (solo cello) Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Iannis Xenakis Kottos (solo cello)
Program 9 Trio Marc Sabat, violin Rohan de Saram, cello Aki Takahashi, piano	Morton Feldman Trio for piano, violin and cello
Program 10 Cello & Guitar Jonathan Leathwood, guitar Rohan de Saram, cello	Program to be chosen from the following repertoire: Benjamin Britten Nocturnal for guitar Luciano Berio Sequenza XI for guitar Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Elliott Carter Shard for guitar Elliott Carter Figment I & II (solo cello) Dusan Bogdanovic Quatre Pieces Intimes Stephen Goss Park of Idols (New Work) Gilbert Biberian Folklore III Stephen Dodgson Duo for Guitar and Cello (written for Rohan & John Williams) Radames Gnattali Sonata
Program 11 Composers from Scandinavia Rohan de Saram, cello NN, piano	Jean Sibelius Malinconia op. 20 (cello with piano) Magnus Lindberg Stoke (solo cello) Per Norgard Solo Intimo (solo cello) Per Norgard Soli in Scena (solo cello) Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons (solo cello) Edvard Grieg Sonata (cello with piano)
Program 12 Composers from England Rohan de Saram, cello Noriko Kawai, piano	Frank Bridge Sonata (cello with piano) James Dillon From: The Book Of Elements for piano James Dillon Parjanya Vata (solo cello) Giles Swayne Four Lyrical Pieces (cello with piano) Jonathan Harvey Curve with Plateaux (solo cello) Benjamin Britten Sonata in C op. 65 (cello with piano)
Program 13 Composers from Russia Rohan de Saram, cello NN, piano	Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata in D minor op. 40 (cello with piano) Galina Ustvolskaya Grand Duo (cello with piano) Alfred Schnittke Sonata II (cello with piano) Sergei Prokofiev Sonata (cello with piano)
Program 14 Elliott Carter Rohan de Saram, cello NN, piano	Robert Schumann Stucke im Volkston op. 102 (cello with piano) Elliott Carter Sonata (cello with piano) Elliott Carter Figment I & II (solo cello) Richard Strauss Sonata op. 6 (cello with piano)
Program 15 Composers from France Rohan de Saram, cello NN, piano	Program to be chosen from the following repertoire: Gabriel Faure Sonata no. 2 in G minor (cello with piano) Claude Debussy Sonata (cello with piano) Henri Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher (solo cello) Francis Poulenc Sonata (cello with piano)
Program 16 THE INNOVATIVE MUSIC MEETING Rajesh Mehta, trumpets Rohan de Saram, cello Trichy Sankaran, percussion	The INNOVATIVE MUSIC MEETING, an improvisation project created by Rajesh Mehta, is based on improvised music, contemporary composed music, and Carnatic (south Indian) music. It demonstrates the creative musical possibiliities of harnessing the collective creative energies that the musicains bring from their respective musical traditions and experiences in order to generate new musical forms and vocabularies, and, ultimately, towards evolving new musical 'languages'. This continuing project aims also to demonstrate that there are deeper strategies for dealing with the innovative aspects of various musical genres, whether 'traditional' or 'contemporary', strategies which take seriously the different strengths and artistic implications of each without resorting to exoticism, elitism or fusion.
Program 17 Duo de Saram - Scodanibbio Rohan de Saram, cello Stefano Scodanibbio, double bass	Program to be chosen from the following repertoire: Alfred Schnittke Hymnus II Giacinto Scelsi Et maintenant c'est à vous de jouer Julio Estrada Yuunohui'nahui'yey Stefano Scodanibbio Western Lands Mauricio Sotelo Memoriae Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (written for Rohan) (solo cello) Stefano Scodanibbio Berio - Sequenza XIV adapted for double bass Iannis Xenakis Roscobeck for cello and double bass (written for Rohan & Stefano Scodanibbio)
Program 18 de Saram/Frith Rohan de Saram, cello Ben Frith, piano	Luigi Boccherini Sonata no. 6 in A (cello with piano) Franz Schubert Sonata (Arpeggione) (cello with piano) Claude Debussy Sonata (cello with piano) Felix Mendelssohn Sonata no. 1 in Bb (cello with piano)