FALI PAVRI

Fali Pavri enjoys a busy and varied career as soloist, chamber musician, teacher and adjudicator. Born in Mumbai,India, he studied the piano at the Moscow Conservatoire with Professor Victor Merzhanov and at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Christopher Elton.

While still a student, he was invited by the great Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovitch to be his pianist on an extensive concert tour of India. This was followed by his London debut at the Purcell Room and concerts in prestigious venues around the world. He has performed and collaborated with many eminent musicians including the Vellinger and Vertavo quartets, the Leopold Trio, Paragon Ensemble,  Scottish Ensemble, clarinetist Andrew Marriner, cellist Franz Helmerson, singers Roderick Williams and Mark Padmore and composer Mauricio Kagel. Fali was, for many years, a member of the Pirasti Piano Trio and he has a successful duo with his wife, the cellist Naomi Boole-Masterson.

Some concert highlights include concertos at the St. Endellion Festival with Richard Hickox and at the Scottish Proms with the RSNO, Wigmore Hall concerts with cellists Wolfgang Schmidt and Tim Gill, a recital tour of S.Africa with Naomi Boole-Masterson, concerts in Ireland with Robert Irvine and performances at the Sangat Music Festival in India and at the Langvad Festival in Denmark. At the 2006 Cheltenham Festival he gave the world premiere of a cello sonata by Giles Swayne with Robert Irvine. A recording of the complete cello/piano works of Swayne followed on the Delphian label. At the Leamington Festival in May 2007 he played piano works by the British composer, Howard Skempton. In June 2009 Fali gave the world premiere of "In Memoriam", a powerful new piece for piano and percussion by the Serbian-American composer Vera Stanojevic.

In October 2010, he gave the first performance of a newly commisioned sonata for cello and piano by the Scottish composer Bill Sweeney with the Finnish cellist Erkki Lahesmaa.

He has recorded two critically acclaimed discs with the cellist Timothy Gill on the Guild label, including world premieres of two works by the Indian composer, John Mayer (“Prabhanda” and “Calcutta Nagar”). In 2009 he recorded another world premiere, the song cycle "Black Sea" by the British composer Anthony Bolton, with the tenor Richard Edgar-Wilson. His latest CD which features the music of the Swiss composer Volkmar Andreae was awarded the coveted "IRR Outstanding" accolade by the International Record Review. Radio broadcasts include regular appearances on BBC Radio 3, where he has played some unusual and challenging repertoire including the Sinding Piano Quintet with the Vertavo Quartet and Alexander Goehr’s “Das Gesetz der Quadrille” with the baritone, Roderick Williams. He has recorded for All-India Radio with Mstislav Rostropovich  and  for CBC (the North-American premiere of “La Trahison Orale” by Mauricio Kagel).

A committed and sought-after teacher with many prize-winning students, Fali Pavri is on the Piano Faculty at theRoyal Conservatoire of Scotland and is also much in demand as an adjudicator and examiner. He has given masterclasses in many countries around the world including recently in Estonia, Finland, Cyprus,  India and South Africa, where he was also a jury member at the Unisa International Piano Competition.