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Sun. May 24 7:00pm
Smita Nagdev with New Directions in Indian Classical Music (India & San Francisco)
Classical Indian Concert for Sitar, Percussion & Voice
Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason
$25 Reserved Seating, $20 in advance. Series Discounts Available.
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Presented by SFIAF, the Sangati Center and the Asian Art Museum.
Indian sitarist Smita Nagdev will be joined in a second joint concert by a Bay Area ensemble commissioned in 2009 by the San Francisco Foundation entitled New Directions in Indian Classical Music featuring the celebrated 2008 Miles From India Tour's energetic drumming talent, Anantha R. Krishnan on the South Indian mridangam barrel drum, along with the ecstatic vocal style of Sangati Center founder Gautam Tejas Ganeshan accompanied by tanpura drone lutes and Debopriyo "Bubai" Sarkar on tabla.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan
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Founder and director of the Sangati Community Center for South Asian Music in San Francisco, a nonprofit performance venue for weekly public chamber concerts of Indian classical music, Gautam performs thoughtful, creative vocal music at the threshold between Indian classical music and its source - the source of all music - the natural world of sound, the harmony of proportion, the pristine, eternal beauty of patterns and the mind, and the complex eddies of human experience and emotion. Gautam has guest-lectured on Carnatic (South Indian classical) music for the Music of India courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and in 2004 was awarded two significant grants for the academic study of music - the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, issued by the U.S. Department of Education.
Anantha R. Krishnan
The grandson and disciple of the mridangam legend Sri Palghat R. Raghu, Anantha performed his first concert for violinist Professor T. N. Krishnan, and before reaching the age of fifteen had the distinction of performing with many of the finest among a generation of Carnatic musicians: Sri K.V. Narayanaswamy, Mandolin Sri U. Srinivas, Dr. N. Ramani, Sri M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. K.J. Yesudas, Chitravina Sri Ravikiran, Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Sri N. Vijay Siva, Sri P. Unnikrishnan, among thers. During this period, Anantha recieved many awards from traditional organizations of Carnatic music in Chennai, India. Most notably, he won the Best Mridangist Prize from the Music Academy, Madras, for three consecutive years between 1998-2001, a first for a mridangist under the age of twenty. After a break of six years, he returned back to the Academy this past year and was again awarded with the Best Mridangist Prize for 2007.
Debopriyo Sarkar
Debopriyo Sarkar is a talented young tabla player from Kolkata and an engaging present-day performer. He has been performing in the classical India music scene for many years, accompanying many great artists, as well as an avid experimenter into many forms of music. Born in Jalpuiguri, North Bengal in 1971, Debopriyo has displayed an enchanting love of music since his early infant days.
Debopriyo is a disciple of Pandit Anindo Chatterjee. Since 1997, he has been performing in the international arena, playing many concerts in the U.S.A., Japan, India, the Middle East, Canada and Europe.
On his own Debopriyo has made collaborations with various artists of many fields of music, including folk, light classical, jazz, hip-hop, films, dj-dance-funk, western traditional, and his own drum/bass groove creations. He had the honour of performing with Asha Bhosle and the Kronos Quartet in the U.S. and London in 2005. He worked with Alonzo King Lines Ballet, performing live music in their new production "Skyclad" for several concerts in Fall 2006.
Debopriyo lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area and performs throughout the world. He possesses an excellent temperament for accompaniment with his clear, sweet tone and intuitive melodic responses. His aesthetic balance between sensitive tonality and rhythmic power creates moods of deep and pure musical celebration.
Debopriyo's devoted and unique playing offers a new and vibrant energy to the classical tradition of Indian Music.
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