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Indian musical icon and classical maverick Niladri Kumar brings a unique experience classical music experience featuring sitar and tabla.

Mixing captivating melodies and effortless instrumental mastery, he’ll be showcasing the heart of Indian music.

His sound is traditionally rooted but with a modern approach – a blend of traditional Indian Raags and Taal, with virtuoso improvisation.

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Blessed with a lineage of five generations of sitar players, Niladri Kumar is a world-renowned and global icon to reckon with. Under the guidance and numerous years of training from his father and guru Pandit Kartick Kumar, Niladri, after gaining an in-depth, profound, and sound understanding of Indian Classical Music, went on to revolutionize the style of sitar playing and further invent his own Instrument, the red electric sitar, which he coined as the Zitar. He is hailed as one of the serious exponents of Indian music and has an uncanny, prodigious style in making this music appealing to the youth and the masses at large. Critics state that he has an unmatchable, effortless mastery over the instrument, and it is indeed a unique treat to witness his swift, agile, and magical fingers produce soul-stirring, brilliant compositions. He has inspired many to learn the sitar, and through his illustrious career has emerged as a one-of-a-kind cause for national pride. He has been bestowed and recognized with several prestigious awards, valued titles, has released over ten albums. In addition, Niladri has contributed immensely to the Indian film industry. His live performances are known to transpose audiences to another world.

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Program: zakir hussain and niladri kumar, zakir hussain and niladri kumar sunday, november 20, 2022 sanders theatre .

Zakir Hussain, the acknowledged master of the Indian tabla , and Niladri Kumar, the young star sitarist, are at the very top of their form, and together they represent the very essence of music : rhythm and melody. Their every performance is an opportunity for transcendent flights of musical imagination grounded in one of the world’s great musical traditions, Northern Indian (“Hindustani”) classical music. What Pandit Ravi Shankar and Zakir Hussain’s father ,  Ustad  Alla r akha , introduced to America in the 1950s and notably again at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and at Woodstock in 1969 —a thousand-year-old tradition of matchless interaction between drummer and melody player—has been passed into the best imaginable hands. What Zakir Hussain and Niladri Kumar create is why people listen to music.   

Zakir Hussain is t he preeminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time and is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A national treasure in his native India, he is one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations, including Shakti , the Diga Rhythm Band , Planet Drum , Tabla Beat Science , Celtic Connection, Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland on the Sangam CD , in trio with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer , and, most recently, with Herbie Hancock. The foremost disciple of his father, the legendary Ustad  Alla r akha , Zakir Hussain was a child prodigy who began his professional career at the age of 12 , accompanying India’s greatest classical musicians and dancers, and touring internationally with great success by the age of 18 .   

As a composer, he has scored music for numerous feature films and major events and has composed three concertos. The most recent enjoys the distinction of being the first-ever concerto for tabla and orchestra and was premiered in India in September 2015, in Europe and the U nited K ingdom in 2016, and in the United States in 2017, by the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center. A multiple Grammy winner, he is the recipient of countless awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan, National Heritage Fellowship , and Officier in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. In 2015, he was voted Best Percussionist by both the DownBeat   International Critics Poll and the Modern Drummer Readers Poll. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley and is the founder and president of Moment! Records, an independent label presenting rare live concert recordings of Indian classical music and other world music. Hussain was resident artistic director at SFJazz from 2013 until 2016 and  received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 in recognition of his “unparalleled contribution to the world of music."

In a lineage of f ive generations of sitar p layers, Niladri Kumar   is himself  a world - renowned musical i con . After y ears of training and guidance from his f ather and g uru , Pandit Kartick Kumar, and after gaining a deep  understanding of Indian classical music,  Niladri Kumar went on to revolutionize the traditional style of s itar playing and further invent his own Instrument, the red electric s itar, which he dubbed the Zitar . He is hailed as a serious pro ponent of Indian m usic and has a prodigious ability to draw in young listeners and broad audiences. Critics  have remarked on his seemingly effortless mastery o f the instrument , the agility and uniqueness of his playing ,  and the ability of his compositions to stir the soul. He has inspired many to learn the s itar and through his illustrious career has emerged as a one - of - a - kind  focus of national p ride in India . He has been recognized with several prestigious awards and honorary titles and has released more than ten albums. Kumar has also contr ibuted prodigiously t o the Indian film in dustry. His live performances are renowned for transporting audiences.  

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International phenomenon and Grammy-winning tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain joins forces with the innovative sitar master Niladri Kumar for a brilliant evening of classic and cutting-edge Indian music.

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International phenomenon and Grammy-winning tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain joins forces with the innovative sitar master Niladri Kumar for a brilliant evening of classic and cutting-edge Indian music on Sunday, Nov. 20. Tickets can be purchased online .

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April 10, 2021 – 8 pm central time, the concert is free for all icmca 2021 members., for non-members, $15 tickets are available for purchase..

ICMCA is delighted to start the 2021 season with none other than Niladri-ji in an exclusive pre-recorded sitar concert. A frontrunner in innovation and technique, Niladri-ji has honored us with several concerts each vying to outdo the other. Niladri-ji will be accompanied by Satyajit Talwalkar on tabla, a percussion maestro.

Pandit niladri kumar, pandit satyajit talwalkar, this concert is pre-recorded and performed exclusively for icmca., if you are a 2021 member or have purchased tickets through the viewcy link (above) please note that the concert will be available for viewing for 24 hours, i.e., from april 10th 8pm central time to april 11th 8pm..

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Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the UK for nine-concert tour (29 November – 9 December 2023).

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Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the UK for nine-concert tour in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Coventry, Bradford, Croydon, Cambridge and Oxford (29 November – 9 December 2023), performing European premiere of Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto and mix of Western classical works

Programmes to be conducted by Alpesh Chauhan, Zane Dalal [pictured] and Richard Farnes, with soloists Zakir Hussain, Niladri Kumar and Rakesh Chaurasia, Pavel Kolesnikov and Marat Bisengaliev

The Symphony Orchestra of India’s inaugural tour of Britain in February 2019 enchanted audiences and drew critical acclaim. The  Arts Desk  praised the ‘excitement, sense of discovery and real zest for the music’ demonstrated by its players, while the  Guardian  commended their ‘hugely competent’ musicianship. The multinational ensemble, the sub-continent’s first and only fully professional orchestra, returns to the UK later this year for a nine-concert tour (29 November – 9 December 2023). Its players will travel from their home base at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts to present three programmes. The tour stands as a significant event in the growing calendar of cultural connections between Britain and India. Its repertoire will include the European premiere of Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto for tabla, sitar, bansuri and orchestra, together with works by Brahms, Khachaturian, Rossini, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner and John Williams.

The SOI’s musicians will be joined by their Associate Music Director, Zane Dalal, guest conductors Alpesh Chauhan and Richard Farnes, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, sitarist Niladri Kumar and bansuri player Rakesh Chaurasia, pianist Pavel Kolesnikov and the orchestra’s co-founder and Music Director, Marat Bisengaliev, who takes the solo part in Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto. Their tour opens at Warwick Arts Centre on Wednesday 29 November with the ‘Imperial March’ from John Williams’  Star Wars  soundtrack under Richard Farnes. He will also conduct the orchestra in Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.2, with Pavel Kolesnikov as soloist, and the  Parsifal Suite , skilfully constructed by Andrew Gourlay from the orchestral material of Wagner’s opera.

Alpesh Chauhan, Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company, will conduct the European premiere of Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto at London’s Cadogan Hall on Thursday 30 November. The new work, commissioned by the SOI, displays its composer’s spellbinding virtuosity together with that of his colleagues, sitarist Niladri Kumar and Rakesh Chaurasia, master of the bansuri (or Indian bamboo flute). Hussain’s score arrives in Britain fresh from its world premiere in Mumbai on 23 September. It will be framed by Richard Strauss’s Suite from  Der Rosenkavalier  and Stravinsky’s ballet  Petrushka . Chauhan’s programme can be heard again at Symphony Hall Birmingham on Friday 1 December and Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on Sunday 3 December.

Farnes and the orchestra are set to repeat the Williams and Wagner works in Cambridge on Thursday 7 December and at London’s Cadogan Hall on Friday 8 December, with Kolesnikov joining them on both occasions as soloist in Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.2. Zane Dalal conducts the tour’s third programme at St George’s Hall, Bradford on Saturday 2 December and presides over its repeat at Fairfield Halls, Croydon on Tuesday 5 December and for the tour’s close at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre on Saturday 9 December. The concert opens with Rossini’s Overture  Semiramide  and includes Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto, an overtly romantic work written for and dedicated to David Oistrakh, who in turn taught Marat Bisengaliev’s teacher Valery Klimov. The programme concludes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6.

The Symphony Orchestra of India, resident at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai since its foundation in 2006, has made a significant contribution to the growth of India’s prestige and standing on the global stage. It comprises a core group of musicians, resident in Mumbai year-round, who also perform as the SOI Chamber Orchestra, and guest members recruited from a pool of outstanding international players.

The education and training of Indian orchestral musicians ranks high on the SOI’s list of priorities. The SOI Music Academy, established in 2012, recruits talented Indian children from the age of six or seven and provides them with a holistic music education. Its programme, delivered by SOI players under Marat Bisengaliev’s supervision, saw the first cohort of students complete their full 11-year course in April. One of its graduates will begin further training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester this September, while alumnae of the SOI Music Academy’s seven-year foundation course have already progressed to study at prestigious conservatoires and universities in Europe and the United States. Their skills have been strengthened by the experience of playing side by side with members of the Symphony Orchestra of India and the SOI Chamber Orchestra. It appears likely that they and their peers will greatly increase the size and quality of the next generation of Indian professional orchestral players.

“It is not easy to assemble an international orchestra in a somewhat remote venue for classical music,” comments Khushroo N. Suntook, Chairman of the NCPA and co-founder of the SOI. “The Music Director, Marat Bisengaliev, and the Orchestra Manager, Onay Zhumabayeva, have carried out this admirable job over the last 15 years, not only establishing a core of permanent musicians but also augmenting the orchestra with both international and Indian musicians carefully chosen from a vast list of contacts. The orchestra also seeks to engage young Indian musicians who show promise, who will join the ranks of the orchestra after an initial training period. Some of our students, who have now graduated from the SOI Music Academy, play in the orchestra, and many are pursuing music further at leading conservatories around the world, including in the UK. We expect a few of these to join the orchestra on this next tour. This is so important to the future of our orchestra and of Western classical music in India.”

Suntook underlines the importance of international touring to the Symphony Orchestra of India’s artistic development. “In addition to our regular performances at home,” he observes, “overseas tours have shown that the SOI makes music at a high international standard. Our first UK tour, which included six concerts, was the biggest we had undertaken to date. It showed to us – our musicians and our audiences – that the SOI can stand its ground in company with leading orchestras in the world. That is precisely what we demonstrated throughout the UK tour, garnering critical and audience acclaim for it. This certainly gave a boost in morale to our musicians, particularly to our young Indian talent. The UK tour certainly helped in maturing their presentation, which was evident in the seasons that followed, both before and after the pandemic.”

Xerxes Unvala, General Manager of the Symphony Orchestra of India and of Western Classical Music Programming at the National Performing Arts Centre in Mumbai, stresses the importance of Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto to the balance of the orchestra’s tour repertoire. “Our home programme tends to be quite broad, stemming from the fact that we’re still the only full-time professional orchestra in India,” he says. “On the other hand, we know that many members of our audience will have never heard the core orchestral repertoire. So we wanted our tour programmes to reflect that wide mix.”

Hussain’s tabla concerto  Peshkar , the SOI’s first ever commission, proved a resounding success during the orchestra’s 2019 tour. “Zakir was the obvious choice for our second commission,” notes Unvala. “I’m sure his new Triple Concerto will be a big hit with our British audiences. This will be the fourth of his compositions that the orchestra has programmed. Zakir is a member of the Governing Council of the NCPA and, as such, is a fine supporter of the orchestra. He is also one of the world’s great musicians, a wonderfully imaginative composer and a tremendous ambassador for Indian culture. We look forward to working with him again when we return to the UK.”

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The Indian classical maestros will be part of the triple concerto premiere in London, Birmingham and Edinburgh

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Symphony Orchestra of India with Zakir Hussain (tabla), Niladri Kumar (sitar), Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri) and Alpesh Chauhan (conductor) (from left to right). Photo: Courtesy of NCPA Mumbai

This November, the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) will return to the U.K. for its second tour in the region, starting November 29th in Coventry and closing on December 8th in London. The eight-concert run — an extension of the SOI’s Autumn 2023 Season — will also include three performances with Indian classical maestros such as tabla artist Zakir Hussain, bansuri veteran Rakesh Chaurasia and sitarist Niladri Kumar.

The SOI, along with Hussain, Chaurasia and Kumar, have previously performed a specially commissioned triple concerto (composed by Hussain) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai in September. This U.K. tour will call on the Indian classical trio once again to join the orchestra in three cities — London on November 30th, Birmingham on December 1st and Edinburgh on December 3rd. The triple concerto has so far had a grand reception in India when it was performed in September, leading to two sold-out shows.

Now in their 17th year, SOI’s music director Marat Bisengaliev also joins the tour on two dates in the U.K., while the orchestra will feature conductors Alpesh Chauhan and Richard Farnes and pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. Earlier in September, SOI welcomed Chauhan, Farnes and Kolesnikov along with cellist Steven Isserlis for his India debut .

SOI’s co-founder and chairman of NCPA, Khushroo N. Suntook says in a statement, “The Autumn 2023 Season was a great success assisted by the excitement around the NCPA’s commissioning of a Triple Concerto for the tabla, sitar and bansuri played by the three great maestros— Zakir Hussain, also the composer, Niladri Kumar and Rakesh Chaurasia. We can safely say that it was one of the most successful seasons of the SOI in living memory. The same artistes are now preparing to go to the U.K. The tour promises to be a remarkable musical celebration and we look forward to presenting it to the audiences in the U.K.”

The Symphony Orchestra of India U.K. Tour 2023

November 29th: Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre, featuring Richard Farnes and Pavel Kolesnikov.

November 30th: London, Cadogan Hall, featuring Alpesh Chauhan and the Hussain trio.

December 1st: Birmingham, Symphony Hall, featuring Alpesh Chauhan and the Hussain trio.

December 2nd: Bradford, St. George’s Hall, featuring Richard Farnes and Marat Bisengaliev.

December 3rd: Edinburgh, Usher Hall, featuring Alpesh Chauhan and the Hussain trio.

December 5th: Croydon, Fairfield Halls, featuring Richard Farnes and Marat Bisengaliev.

December 7th: Cambridge, Corn Exchange, featuring Richard Farnes and Pavel Kolesnikov.

December 8th: London, Cadogan Hall, featuring Richard Farnes and Pavel Kolesnikov.

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India’s Pride. The Intricacy, Complexity, Yet simplicity & delicate beauty of her on the inside. Her inimitable Emotive Voice, The Sound she can produce, Her tone, once heard, the way it can make you move.

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She can make you dwell deep, Whilst she playfully enchants. You’ll feel her silence, When you hear her trance. Intriguing & Divine, Captivating, beyond the mind. She’s a Stringed Miracle, Since Everlasting time.

Considered a Privilege to be born into a Family of Musicians, Niladri Kumar, 5th Generation Sitarist at the tender age of four showed immense aptitude and readiness towards playing the Instrument. His natural draw towards Music was thereafter extensively moulded, enhanced, trained and disciplined under the guidance of his Guru and Father Pandit Kartick Kumar. His Father’s vast diversity of generation deep knowledge was thoroughly passed onto Niladri and his soulful journey into Music thus began.

Niladri gave his first Public performance at the age of six at Pondicherry and released his first album with his Father at the age of 15. At a young age, his in-depth knowledge, sound technique, swift agile fingers, dexterity of playing, charming personality, experimentations on the Sitar and his unique musical style of presentation started gaining popularity and quickly started catching the attention of audiences, purists, critiques, and music lovers from all walks of life.

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The Young Sitarist started captivating listeners and began to attract a lot of youth. This in turn propelled his journey and challenge of making the Sitar and classical music more accessible, loved and appreciated in the minds, hearts and playlists of the younger generation. Niladri grew to emerge as one of the generation’s brightest stars. The prodigious Musician was bestowed with various prestigious awards. Although as he maintains” ‘It’s good to win awards, but what matters the most is and will always remain the Music and the reward of that”

Niladri has revolutionised the sound and has crafted a playing style unique to him on the Sitar and his profound understanding and passion for Music translates wonderfully to his globally loved trademark compositions.

“I have had only 2 Sitars. Sitars are like Wands described in Harry Potter. You have to mutually select each other and only once you warm up enough, does the musical spell start to grow & only after that does some magic start to begin”

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