After the past successful concert tours titled “Classical Music Of India” presenting various combinations, artists and instruments from India, this year CulturAll has decided to present one of the most popular instruments of North Indian classical music, the Sitar.
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. It has derived originally from many ancient stringed instruments known as Veena. The instrument flourished under the Mughals, and it is said to be named after a Persian instrument called the sehtar (meaning three strings). The sitar flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th-century India. It derives its distinctive timbre and resonance from sympathetic strings, bridge design, a long hollow neck and a gourd-shaped resonance chamber.
Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A very young, Rohan Dasgupta, invited from Kolkata, India will present this year’s Spring Concert together with tabla maestro Udhai Mazumdar
Rohan Dasgupta – Sitar
Belonging to the unique and rare ‘Jafferkhani’ style of sitar playing, Rohan was fortunate to start his musical journey under the tutelage of his uncle Guru Pandit Harashankar Bhattacharya and have been blessed with occasional training from Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan himself. His openness towards other musicians and genres has also influenced him in shaping his musical expressions since the beginning.
Through years of practice and realization Rohan’s utmost effort stayed in creating his own niche of musical expression, and in the quest he has been supported and awarded by many prestigious organisations in India and abroad such as The President’s award by Government of India, empanelled by ICCR, Tagore centre in Berlin, Vienna University In Austria, Cultural centre of Nova Gorica in Slovenia, Basel university in Switzerland , Indo German cultural centre Frankfurt, Parampara festival Suriname in Latin America and Cultural centre Moscow in Russia to name a few.
At present he is actively travelling, performing and teaching the art and collaborating with fine musicians around the globe based from India and Slovenia.
Udhai Mazumdar – Tabla
Udai Mazumdar is a versatile tabla player of the Benares Gharana. He hails from a family of musicians and fine artists in Allahabad. His father, Partho Sarathy Mazumdar, is among the first-generation of guitarists in the fields of Indian Classical music.
Learnt from late Pandit Ashoutosh Bhattacharya, and the world-renowned Sitar Maestro, Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar, Udai has participated in many noteworthy Indian and international festivals, besides playing for and with Pandit Ravi Shankar on different occasions, like performing before the Royal Families of England and Sweden, accompanied Pt. Ravi Shankar together with Ustad Zakir Hussain in a concert to mark the Maestro’s 75th birth year etc. Udai also has credits on the CD’s “Echoes from India”, “Fulfillment”, “Reverberations – I”, “Musik der Welt Bern”, “ShankaRagmala”.
As a composer Udai has created CD’s like “Geeta Govinda”, “Journey-An elaborated Raagamala”, “Kabir, Tulasi & Us”, “Singing Strings”, “Ibaadat”, India “N” Chants etc.
Udai is Based in New Delhi and Basel, from where he travels for his concerts across the globe and teaches students privately at home, as in age-old traditional teaching of Indian classical music.
| Date | Venue | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May | Theatre An Der Grenze Hauptstr. 55a, CH-8280 Kreuzlingen | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 25 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 20 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 10 May | Offene Kirche Böcklinstr. 2, CH-9000 St. Gallen | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 11 May | Teatro Paravento Via Cappuccinni 8, CH-8800 Locarno | 19:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 25 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 20 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 14 May | Figurentheater Marktgasse 25, CH-8400 Winterthur | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 15 May | Rathaussaal Städtle 6, FL-9490 Vaduz | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 25 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 20 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 17 May | Pavillon Luzerner Spielleaute Spelteriniweg 6, CH-6005 Luzern | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 18 May | Markhalle Basel VViaduktStr. 10, CH-4051 Basel | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 22 May | ONO Kramgasse 6 CH-3011 Bern | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 23 May | May Le Cazard Rue Pré-du-Marche 15, CH-1004 Lausanne | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 28 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 23 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 24 May | Theater Alte Oele Freienhofgasse 10a / Oelegässli 3600 Thun (Tickets only at http://www.theateralteoelethun.ch/spielplan.php ) | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
| 25 May | Mandiram Liestal Benzburweg 20, 4410 Liestal | 20:00 | Erwachsene: CHF 30 Studenten-AHV-IV-Gönner: CHF 25 Kinder ab 12 Jahren: CHF 15 |
Tickets
Starticket – https://www.starticket.ch/de/tickets/culturall-20190509-2000-20190525-2200-diverse-locations
Reservation / Information – 061-3827408, culturallch@gmail.com, Abendkasse
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Stream-Links
CulturAll
Sitar
Udhai Mazumdar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZnpV-dvkGs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVwaSwfln4
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udai_Mazumdar
- http://www.udhaimazumdar.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/UdhaiMazumdar/
Organisation and Presentation
www.culturall.ch – Non-profit Organisation
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