Aalisha Jaisinghani Senior Piano Recital
Program:
Classical:
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Mvt. I: Allegro Assai
Scherzo No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 31 by Frédéric Chopin
Estampes, I. Pagodes by Claude Debussy
Jazz:
Waltz for Debby by Bill Evans
Original Songs:
Ma by Aalisha Jaisinghani
Schroeder by Aalisha Jaisinghani
Biography:
Aalisha Jaisinghani has been studying classical piano for the past fifteen years, under the tutelage of a variety of masterful teachers, including Dr. Anne Turgeon, Mr. Pedro Hernandez, and Prof. Amanda Kirkpatrick. She attended Bak Middle School of the Arts, and subsequently Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, enrolled as a classical piano major, where she also began studying jazz piano. She currently attends Washington University in St. Louis, where she is currently pursuing the Bachelor of Music, along with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics.
Jaisinghani’s experience in classical music has been impressively holistic, with years of curated curriculums of theory, composition, history, ear training, music appreciation, and most of all, performance. She has performed in a variety of shows throughout high school and college, including a self-arranged piece in the Kravis Center of Performing Arts for Dreyfoos’s Prism concert, original songs and arrangements with different bands, jazz combo and jazz band performances, multifarious classical piano recitals, and much more. At WashU, she is the only undergraduate student employed to teach subsections for music theory I and II.
Jaisinghani has expanded her musical vocabulary to cover a variety of genres and styles. Along with piano, Jaisinghani is a jazz and rock vocalist, and self-taught guitarist and bass guitarist; she has two albums of original music already out and more on the way. After college, she is hoping to pursue music graduate school for film, tv, and video game composition, along with continuing to release her contemporary songs and maintaining piano at the forefront of her life.