Aavi Sircar, Piano
Aavi is 12 years old and a seventh grader at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He began piano lessons at age 8 and has since performed at major concert venues nationally and internationally. He has been featured as a young virtuoso on Steinert & Sons Steinway Stories series and as a guest artist at The Music Salon hosted by Philadelphia-based symphony conductor Karl Middleman. Aavi has played at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Academy of Music Ballroom in Philadelphia, Field Concert Hall at Curtis Institute of Music, Sala dei Notari in Perugia, Italy, GC de Lijsterbes in Brussels and the Van Cliburn Concert Hall in Fort Worth.
Aavi has performed in masterclasses by renowned pianists such as John Perry, Norma Fisher, Steven Spooner, Sa Chen, Sasha Starcevich, Arthur Greene, Faina Lushtak, Svetlana Smolina, Igor Resnianski and Maria Asteriadou. Aavi has won solo piano performance prizes at various competitions including Chicago International Music Competition and Festival, Chopin Avenue International Piano Competition, Chopin Hartford International Piano Competition, Charleston International Music Competition, Bösendorfer Youth Music Festival, OPUS Music Competition, West Chester University Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition, Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition and Clara Schumann International Piano Competition. In 2023, he was a runner-up at the Harmony for Peace Junior Peace and Music Ambassador competition and received an honorable mention at the 11th Cesar Franck International Piano Competition in Belgium. He’s won concerto competition awards at Triumph Music Festival, Keystone Concerto Competition and Sempre Musick Concerto Competition. During Summer 2023, Aavi attended the Chicago International Music Competition and Festival on a scholarship and made his orchestral debut at Music Fest Perugia in Italy with the Europa Musica Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Marius Stravinsky. As a recipient of the 2024 Ambler Symphony Orchestra Scholarship and a winner of the 2024 Young Artist Concerto Competition, Aavi will perform as a soloist with the Ambler Orchestra and the Old York Road Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Jack Moore in 2025. In the summer of 2024, Aavi attended the highly selective Piano Texas International Festival and Academy as a junior performer, Kutztown University Summer Music Festival on a merit scholarship, and the New Orleans Piano Institute. Outside of competitions, Aavi enjoys sharing his music with local retirement homes residents. He takes piano lessons from Mr. James Anemone at Anemone Piano Studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Apart from piano, Aavi enjoys science, math, chess and coding computer games in C#, Lua, Java Script and Unity. He has been actively training in martial arts two to three times a week since he was 5 years old. He is currently a 2nd Dan (2nd Degree Black Belt) in Taekwondo and working towards his 3rd Dan.