Canadian Classical guitarist Daniel Ramjattan will perform a recital at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church on March 22. Presented by The Friends of Music at St. Thomas, the program includes works by Bach, Mertz, Tsujita, and others.
The Friends of Music at St. Thomas’s present a series of community recitals, lectures, music education, and support the The St. Thomas’s Choristers, a choral music program for kids aged 7 to 17. Previous seasons have featured artists such as cellist Elinor Frey, the Eybler Quartet, and Lute Legends Ensemble, among others.
Classical Guitarist Daniel Ramjattan
Daniel studied guitar privately with mentors such as Patrick Roux, Dr. Jeffrey McFadden, the late great Bruce Holzman, Lorenzo Micheli, and Jorge Caballero, among others. He went on to win competitions in Ottawa and at the OMFA Provincial Guitar Competition, placing second in the FCMF National Guitar Competition in 2016.
Today, Ramjattan is a busy performer who has appeared on stages and in recitals across North America, in Japan, and Trinidad and Tobago. He has also performed at festivals across Canada and internationally, including the 21C Music Festival, Open Ears, Ottawa Chamberfest, Italy’s Livorno Music Festival, Vienna’s Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, the Vancouver Classical Guitar Festival, and many others.
Alongside his performing calendar, Dr. Ramjattan is a recording artist, guitar professor and lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, and at the Oscar Peterson School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, as well as in his private Toronto studio.
As a dedicated educator, his students have won RCM Gold medal, and gone on to study at undergraduate and graduate programs across Canada. He is a sought after adjudicator at competitions.
He has lectured on the topic of performance anxiety at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Mount Royal University, and other institutions.
The Concert
After the performance, there will be a post-concert chat followed by a light reception.
In an interview published on The Friends of Music at St. Thomas blog, Ramjattan mentions that the post-concert chat will be about music performance anxiety, which was the topic of his doctoral dissertation. He also teaches students to manage their anxieties at Wilfred Laurier University.
Essentially, he talks about learning to accept the anxiety while working on changing the reaction to it. He points out, for example, that the heightened physical responses that occur before a performance can either be felt as anxiety, as a form of avoidance. The opposite can also be true.
‘But a person having the same physiological experience could instead say, ‘Oh, this is lightning flowing through my body, making me powerful. How exciting. I’m pumped up to play. I’m pumped up to sing. This is what it feels like to be galvanized, to be ready to share my music with others.’ That is a completely different experience, even though physiologically excitement and fear are coded the same way in our body. It’s only how we interpret the feeling in our mind that makes it anxiety or not.’
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