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GUPTA-BANERDT-KAPLAN TRIO

LA Phil Violinist Robert Gupta joins Beverly Hills Auditions Winners: cellist Bronwyn Banerdt and pianist David Kaplan

Indian-American violinist and musical activist Robert Vijay Gupta at 24 is currently the youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He directs a free outreach concert series on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles for the homeless and mentally ill called The Street Symphony. He studied violin at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music. His principal teachers have included Glenn Dicterow, Ani Kavafian, and Isaac Stern. Robert Gupta is a TED Senior Fellow.

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