(L-R): Marie Radauer-Plank on the violin, Kim Barbier on the piano and Iseut Chuat on the cello, as part of a special Women’s Day concert on March 6 at the Victoria Memorial Hall, organised by Alliance Francaise du Bengale, in collaboration with the ministry of culture, Government of India, and the French consulate general in Kolkata. The performance was a tribute to three gifted but often overlooked 19th and 20th century French female composers — Mel Bonis, Germaine Tailleferre and Louise Farrenc — and marked the climax to the series of five concerts of French classical music that began in the city last November. The series had previously featured pianists Maxime Zecchini, Alessandro Commellato, Philippe Engel and Nadine Jo Crasto, opera singer Paul Gaugler, oboist Theirry Benoit and violinist Ambre Palusci
Photos: Amit Datta