Description
About Bhargava Kulkarni (cello), 16, hails from Okemos, Michigan, and attends the Okemos High School. Bhargava started learning the cello as a four-year old in the local Suzuki program with Molly Rebeck. Later he studied with Horacio Contreras and Richard Aaron. For the past six years, he has been studying with Professor Amir Eldan at the University of Michigan. His repertoire includes concertos by Haydn, Elgar, Davidov, Kabalevsky, Saint-Saens, Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak and others, sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms, suites by Bach and Cassado, and many short pieces for cello and piano. Bhargava has also performed chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Arensky and more.
Bhargava has won several local competitions, the MTNA (Michigan) competition in the junior division (November 2020 and 2021), as well as the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Young Artist competition (December 2022). He is also selected to perform in the live rounds of the International Young Artist Concerto Competition in Chicago. He has also held leadership chair positions at the All-State High School orchestra and Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Bhargava has given numerous solo and chamber music performances. Most recent memorable performances were at the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in March 2023, at the Indiana University Summer String Academy in Summer 2023, and at the Morningside Music Bridge in Summer 2024. He has also performed in the studio classes of his teacher as well as in masterclasses at various summer programs.
Besides cello, he is keenly interested in mathematics, reading, chess and running.
About the Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance
Each summer from the last weekend of July through the first weekend of August, the Baroque on Beaver Festival presents world-class orchestral, chamber, and vocal performances on the most remote inhabited island of the Great Lakes. In 2026, the festival celebrates 25 years of bringing classical music to Beaver Island. Baroque on Beaver is the signature event of the Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance (BIPAA).
“The Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance produces the Baroque on Beaver Festival and promotes the performing arts with its partners to enrich the greater Beaver Island community.”
Beyond our signature annual event, the Baroque on Beaver Festival, the BIPAA strives to engage with the BI community broadly and in multiple types of artistic presentations with both summer-season and year-round arts programming. Additional 2026 events include the Beaver Island Jazz Series in association with the BIC Center and WVBI, and a Christmas Concert in association with the BIC Center. Learn more at www.baroqueonbeaver.org/bipaa.








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