Duo — Press — Chelsea de Souza

17 Jun 2023 | 03:44am IST

Vivek Menezes

Much has been said elsewhere about Chelsea (29) and Chloe (27), the prodigiously talented – and equally hard-working – Goan sisters from Bandra, who have separately stormed through colleges and conservatories in the USA to emerge as two of the most promising young artists of our times. Each is proving to be an individual powerhouse-in-the-making, but together (particularly when playing side-by-side) the siblings are uncanny, literally incredible. Venus and Serena Williams come to mind, which is probably unfair, but they did deliver two superlative performances on two successive nights in Porvorim.

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The Navhind Times: Sister Act

By Navhind Times

2023-06-18 | Luis Dias

The last time the de Souza sisters (Chelsea and Chloe) performed in Goa was several years ago, so it was a delight to hear them again recently, in two very thoughtfully programmed and illuminating concerts.

Both of them have established themselves in the U.S. as performers and music educators, breaking barriers, reaching out to newer audiences and making exciting connections with other genres from jazz to ‘world’ music.

As someone invested in music education myself, I was curious how their inspiring journey began.

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Sunday Mid Day: The Chopin duet arrives in India with a Western Classical performance on June 19

Updated on: 11 June,2023 08:09 AM IST | Mumbai
Jane Borges | jane.borges@mid-day.com

Bandra’s virtuosos, Chelsea and Chloe de Souza, who have been wowing audiences with their Western Classical performances in America, are on an India tour, where in a first, they will slide four hands across the keys of a piano.

Chelsea de Souza’s earliest memory of Western Classical music was on the breakfast table. Her “musically-inclined” father, Colin, would play records of the collected works of composer-pianist Frederic Chopin as she and her younger sister Chloe polished off their bowls of porridge. “I still have a very strong memory of listening to Chopin before heading to school,” says the Houston-based pianist, whom we meet at her family home in Bandra West. “That’s how it all began.”

The 29-year-old, who is a Steinway Young Artist—a title conferred upon only the best pianists of their time by a programme handled by Steinway’s Concert and Artist Department—has spent the last 12 years at music schools across the US pursuing an undergrad at Oberlin College and Conservatory, before a Master’s at Peabody. She is currently in the midst of completing a doctorate at Rice University.

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