EFT Report, Mumbai: The Indian subcontinent abounds in a variety of musical instruments, and a considerable specialization is displayed in instrumental usage, both in North and South Indian art music. Instruments present music solo, provide melodic or rhythmic accompaniment, or produce drones.
The fourth edition of this two-day festival will feature instruments from different categories – string-bowed (cello), string-plucked (sitar), drums-percussion (tabla) and string-slide (chitravina).
Saskia Rao de Haas’s teachers include the late cello virtuoso Tibor de Machula, Koustav Ray and Hariprasad Chaurasia. She studied Indian music at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands while finishing her Masters in Ethnomusicology from the University of Amsterdam. During her subsequent visits to India, she also studied under eminent artistes such as Sumati Mutatkar, D. K. Datar, Deepak Chowdhury and Shubhendra Rao. With no precedent to follow, she has adapted her cello to suit Indian music, adding one additional playing string and ten sympathetic strings, creating the Indian Cello.
Born in a family of musicians, Shubhendra Rao has had the privilege of being introduced to sitar at a very young age by his father, N. R. Rama Rao, a senior disciple of the legendary sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Later he was mentored by the maestro himself in the intricacies of the Maihar gharana. An ‘A’ grade artiste of AIR, Shubhendra distinguishes himself as not only a soloist but also a composer and teacher of repute.
The duo has performed individually and together, in several prestigious venues across the world. They have composed music and collaborated with South Indian musicians, jazz musicians, klezmer, flamenco and other European folk musicians have recorded with International record labels.
Date & Time: April 12-13, 2013; 6.30 pm
Venue: Experimental Theatre: NCPA, Nariman Point, NCPA Marg, Mumbai
Tickets: Rs 100
Language: Others
Genre: Indian Music
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| 4th Saz-e-Bahar, Festival of Indian Instrumental Music |
Saskia Rao de Haas’s teachers include the late cello virtuoso Tibor de Machula, Koustav Ray and Hariprasad Chaurasia. She studied Indian music at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands while finishing her Masters in Ethnomusicology from the University of Amsterdam. During her subsequent visits to India, she also studied under eminent artistes such as Sumati Mutatkar, D. K. Datar, Deepak Chowdhury and Shubhendra Rao. With no precedent to follow, she has adapted her cello to suit Indian music, adding one additional playing string and ten sympathetic strings, creating the Indian Cello.
Born in a family of musicians, Shubhendra Rao has had the privilege of being introduced to sitar at a very young age by his father, N. R. Rama Rao, a senior disciple of the legendary sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Later he was mentored by the maestro himself in the intricacies of the Maihar gharana. An ‘A’ grade artiste of AIR, Shubhendra distinguishes himself as not only a soloist but also a composer and teacher of repute.
The duo has performed individually and together, in several prestigious venues across the world. They have composed music and collaborated with South Indian musicians, jazz musicians, klezmer, flamenco and other European folk musicians have recorded with International record labels.
Date & Time: April 12-13, 2013; 6.30 pm
Venue: Experimental Theatre: NCPA, Nariman Point, NCPA Marg, Mumbai
Tickets: Rs 100
Language: Others
Genre: Indian Music
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