Dharshini Tambiah

Piano, Music History, Music Literature

Email: dtambiah@usf.edu
Phone: (813) 974-2311
Office: MUS 357

British pianist Dharshini Tambiah has given two solo recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, a recital at the Esterhazy Palace in Austria as part of the International Haydn Festival, recitals at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London and chamber music concerts at Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont and the Morges Chamber Music Festival in Switzerland. 

Tambiah is a keen chamber music performer and has collaborated with many internationally acclaimed musicians, including the tubist Oystein Baadsvik and cellist Thomas Landschoot. She has given a number of world premieres, including the premiere of 'Ballade', a work for solo piano by Augusta Read Thomas. 

Tambiah 's piano studies included many years of private study with renowned pianist and pedagogue, Phyllis Sellick. After graduating with a First-Class music degree from Lancaster University in the UK, she continued with her piano studies at the Royal College of Music, from whence she graduated with a Distinction. Tambiah continued with her pursuit of musicology studies at the University of York in the UK where she was awarded a PhD for her research on the piano music of American composer, Robert Helps. 

Tambiah joined the USF School of Music faculty in 2008; she teaches principle study piano plus history and literature classes at both undergraduate and graduate levels.