Aavi Sircar

Aavi is 11 years old and a sixth grader at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He began piano lessons at age 8 and since then has performed at major concert venues nationally and internationally and has been featured as a young virtuoso on Steinert & Sons ‘Steinway Stories’ series. 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, Sala dei Notari in Perugia, Italy, GC de Lijsterbes in Brussels, Ware Recital Hall in West Chester University, Armerding Recital Hall in Wheaton College, and has been invited to perform at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland. Aavi has performed in masterclasses by renowned pianists such as John Perry, Steven Spooner, Sasha Starcevich, Arthur Greene, Svetlana Smolina, Gábor Farkas, Igor Resnianski, Maria Asteriodou, Grace Chung and Carol Chuang. 

Aavi has won prizes for his solo piano performances at 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 (both state and national), West Chester University Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition, Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition, Clara Schumann International Piano Competition, International Mozart Competition Vienna, Euterpe Music Awards and London Classical Music 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 in 2023. 

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, Aavi will perform as a soloist with the Ambler Orchestra under Maestro Jack Moore in February 2025.

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 and has a been a scholarship recipient at the studio since Fall 2021. Apart from piano, Aavi enjoys science, math and coding computer games in C#, Lua, Java Script and Unity. He has been training in martial arts since he was 5 years old and will be testing for his 2nd Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.