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earned him a nomination for the Large-Scale Composition Award, according to a press
note. Orpheus garnered five-star reviews and earned Degun a 2022 Critics’ Circle Music
Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Opera”. His other awards and acknowledgments
include the Songlines Best Newcomer Award, an Asian Achievers Award, an Asian Media
Award, and an Ivor Novello Classical Award nomination for Best Stage Work. Learning
under the guidance of Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE, Degun has performed all over the
world in prestigious venues, including Buckingham Palace, the Amphitheatre in Doha,
and Westminster Abbey at the Royal Commonwealth Service 2022, in the presence of
the British Royal Family and Prime Minister. Degun trained intensively in India under
maestro Ustad Shujaat Khan in 2010 and studied as an International Scholar at the
prestigious Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, under the guidance of Pandit Partho
Chatterjee and Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty in early 2016.

Birmingham-born Chauhan’s debut album featuring orchestral works by Tchaikovsky
was released with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on Chandos Records in June
2023. He entered the Royal Northern College of Music in 2008 to study the cello before
pursuing the prestigious Master’s Conducting Course. (IANS)

(IANS)

He entered the Royal Northern College of Music in 2008 to study the cello before
pursuing the prestigious Master’s Conducting Course.
Following his musical debut in 2015, he was appointed Principal Conductor of
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, in Parma, and performed much of the great symphonic
repertoire, including a complete cycle of Brahms’s symphonies.
In 2022, Chauhan was named ‘Miglior Direttore’ by the Italian National Association of
Music Critics for concerts given across Italy in 2021, and in January 2022 received an
OBE for Services to the Arts in the Queen’s New Year Honours.
The RPS Awards will take place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester on
March 5 with tickets priced between ten to 25 pounds. (IANS)