FRIDAY APRIL 2 @ 6:00 PM - Lecture
                             @ 8:00 PM - Concert

Music of South Indian with Amjad Ali Khan, Master of Sarod presented by The Heyman Center for Humanities/Columbia University in association with the Indo American Arts Council and World Music Institute!Co-Sponsor by HarmoNYom.

- Lecture in Lerner Hall (6-7PM) 

By Maestro Amaj Ali Khan.
Lecture tickets available at the TIC in Lerner Hall Lobby. Lecture tickets are free for all students.

http://cuarts.com/calendar/view/type/4/event_id/5288

- Concert in Miller Theatre (8-10PM)
Grammy nominated Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, one of the greatest Indian musicians alive will be accompanied by his two sons, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan.

Accompagnied on Tabla by talented Aditya Kalyanpur and Vineet Vyaas.

Miller Theatre

2960 Broadway @ 116 Street, New York, NY

www.millertheater.com  Box Office: 212-854-7799
General Admission: $35 - $25 (AAIC/WMI members)           $15 (Students & Faculty)

http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1365

FRIDAY APRIL 2 @ 7:00 PM

Tabla player Suphala will be performing at the Rubin Museum with jazz pianist, Jason Lindner.

Rubin Museum of Art

150 west 17 Street @7th ave

New York, NY

www.suphala.com

Advance tickets: https://www.vationtix.com/trs/pe/8007405
More info: http://www.rmanyc.org/harleminthehimalayas

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a tribute to Vasant Rai with a Sarod Concert:
By
James Palmer - Sarod
Samir Chatterjee - Tabla

Info and Tix : http://tabla.org/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=13

Tickets: $20, $16 (students and seniors)

SUNDAY APRIL 4 @ 7:00 P

WKCR 89.9 FM New York’s “Raag Aur Taal” program present ‘Ragas – Live’ Series with a performance featuring Indian Classical Maestros! Hosted by Ashok Ilankovan.

Recorded at WKCR 89.9 FM on March 21 2010 by Sitarist
Pradeep Ratnayaka and Tabla player Nitin Mitta for the
Raag Aur Taal show.

Email hosts of the program at raagaurtaal@gmail.com or the In All Languages Department at ial@wkcr.org or Tel: 212.854.9920
WKCR FM New York can be tuned in to on your dial at 89.9FM or over the Internet at http://www.wkcr.org.

MONDAY APRIL 5 TO APRIL 9

Sitar Workshop with Maestro Sitarist

Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan.

Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, affectionately called "Ustadji" by his students, descends from six generations of sitarists. He is one of the leading exponents of the Etawah Gharana, a musical tradition or "family" committed to this most famous of Indian instruments. He was trained by his father and guru, Ustad Aziz Khan.

He be returning to New York City from April 5 to 9 2010 for a series of workshops exploring Indian Classical Music. Ustadji nurtures this relationship with every student at the Academy, from the beginner to the most advanced, with a subtle admixture of pedagogical foresight, humor and human kindness that helps turn the rigors of learning into sheer delight. All levels welcome. www.spkacademy.org

WEDNESDAY APRIL 7

Happy 90th Birthday to Pt Ravi Shankar!

Pandit Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian sitarist and composer. He has been described as the most well known contemporary Indian musician by Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.

Sitarist Maestro Ikhlaq Hussain and Naren Budhkar on Tabla!

Ikhlaq Hussain  is one of the leading musicians of his generation, exhibiting great proficiency and originality.

Ikhlaq's lineage dates back to a centuries-long line of prominent musicians of the Delhi Gharana (school) of Hindustani classical music, including Sufi Saint Hazrat Amir Khusrao, the creator of the sitar and tabla in the 13th century. Ikhlaq's musical education was acquired from his father, the eminent artist Ustad Imdad Hussain in Karachi and subsequently Ustad Kabir Khan. In 1991, Ikhlaq was awarded a scholarship from the Indian government to study with Pandit Ravi Shankar in India. http://www.ragasitar.com

Accompanied on Tabla by Naren Budhkar.

Tong Ren Center

1133 Broadway @ 26 Street, Suite 1625

New York, NY 10016

Ticket $20

The American Academy for Indian Classical Music welcomes renowned Hindustani Classical vocalist

Sri Sanjoy Banerjee to New York.

For Vocal class with him, please email aaicmnewyork@gmail.com

Shruti Laya Presents Carnatic Music from India by Nivedita Shivraj on Veena, Shenthuraan on Mridangam.

Queens Library Flushing

41-17 Main Street, Queens, NY 11355

http://www.shrutilaya.org/

Free program

SATURDAY APRIL 10 @ 5:00 PM (Film) @ 8:00 PM (Concert)

Chhandayan Center For Indian Music and Aron Govil Production present:

5 to 7:00PM *Raga Unveiled* by Gita Desai, "a documentary film that bring the artistry & origins of India's Raga Music alive"

www.ragaunveiled.com

8:00PM Followed

by a Sitar recital by Hidayat Khan. (http://www.timeless-music.org/)

Tabla accompaniment Dibyarka Chatterjee.

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music
4 West 43rd Street (5/6 Ave), Ballroom
New York, NY 10036
http://tabla.org/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=14

Ticket: $30 ($20 for Students)

SUNDAY APRIL 11 @ 9:00PM
                                 @ 10:45PM

Presented by Harrice Miller Entertainment,

The Lotus 5
Indo-Jazz Quintet in concert!

Featuring:

SUNDAY APRIL 11 @ 9:30 PM

Special Indian Classical music gathering at Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village.

The evening will include performances by bansuri player Eric Fraser, sitarist Andrew Mendelson, singer Matt Rahaim and tabla players Ehren Hanson and Sameer Gupta.

Caffe Vivaldi

32 Jones Street, New York, NY

http://www.caffevivaldi.com/

Free!

WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 @ 5:00 PM

Violinist Michael Braudy will play under “The Spiral Staircase” Indian ragas, Celtic and American folk music and Bach. The sounds under the spiral staircase carry into the exhibitions, so you can enjoy the Rubin’s collection of Tibetan and related arts as you listen to the music.

Rubin Museum of Art

50 West 17th Street

New York, NY 10011

 http://www.rmanyc.org/

212-620-5000

Reflections Yoga presents dancer Sohini RoyChowdhury with opening by Sitarist Indrajit RoyChowdhury.

Followed by dance performance, an unique opportunity to see Sohini Roychowdhury presenting her solo work in an intimate setting. Groomed in the classical Tanjore style of Bharatnatyam, Sohini combines the best of two worlds – a classical conservative training and a modern innovative outlook. 

Reflections Yoga

250 West 49 Street, 2 Floor

New York, NY

Master Mandolinist Snehasish Mozumder & SOM. 

Classical and jazz fusion's Snehasish Mozumder's double-neck mandolin is at the center of a band that swings it North Indian style.

SOM features:
Snehasish  Mozumder -mandolin

Nick Gianni -woodwinds,
Vin Scialla -drums, percussion
Jason Hogue -bass,  Bopa -percussion,
& guest: Jason Lindner -piano, keys

Snehasish Mozumder is among those few established musicians in India who has mastered the art of playing Mandolin, and has blended it perfectly into the style of Hindustani Indian Classical Music. Recently, Snehasish was invited by Pandit Ravi Shankar to perform for the George Harrison Memorial Concert held in ROYAL ALBERT HALL in London.
Som is finishing their new album and will be released this year. Full length album avail this Summer@ itunes.

www.myspace.com/somintrance
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=x8-pHs8BhVc

Nublu

62 Avenue C (bet 4th & 5^th street)
New York, NY 10009, liftoffrecords@gmail.com

Cover charge $10

NOT TO BE MISSED! For their first and unique preformances in New York, Taalim School of Indian Music and Women's Education Project present Pandit Divyang Vakil's TABLA ECSTASY - Tabla Ensemble

and a Kathak recital by Won Joung Jin.

The musicians of Tabla Ecstasy are Rushi Vakil, Nishant Mehta, Kaumil Shah and Sahil Patel. 

www.taalim.com

Panditji and Tabla Ecstasy will be on tour with acclaimed
Korean kathak dancer, Ms. Won Joung Jin.  

Jin is the only kathak dancer of Korean nationality.

http://www.myspace.com/wonjoungjin

Yorktown Heights, NY Music Lovers present

Sri Thyagaraja Aradhana.

Featuring:

Rendition of Pancharathna Kritis 11:00 - 12:15

Lunch 12:15 - 12:45

Children's participation 12:45 - 3:45

Honors to Children 3:45 - 4:00

Concert 4:15 - 5:15:

Varun Ganesan (Vocal), Arun Ramamurthy (Violin),

Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)/

Students of 5:30 - 7:00:

Sri Balasubramaniyan & Mr David Nelson,Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

North Brunswick High School - Grace Lutheran Church

3830 Gomer Street

Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Contact: Bhavani Iyer 914.864.2603, Indira Rajan 914.962.9815, Nagamani Srinivasan 914.736.2029, Anita Viswanathan 914.962.5753

Admission: Free!! Donations are welcome!

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a Sarod Concert by:

Sri Dibyarka Chatterjee – Tabla

Anirban is an excellent Sarod player, the son and disciple of Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta.

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music

4 West 43rd Street (5/6 Ave), # 618, New York, NY  http://www.tabla.org

Tickets: $20, $16 (students and seniors)

Indian Classical Music with

Mitch Greenberg, bansuri flute and shenai

Ray Spiegel, tabla

Bliss Yoga

6 Demming St. Wodstock, NY12498

845-679-8700

Tickets: $15.00

SUNDAY APRIL 18

Steve Gorn on Bansuri & Yousif Sheronick's Silk Road Project

American Museum of Natural History

Central Park West @ 81 Street

New York, NY

http://www.silkroadproject.org/Events/Calendar/tabid/193/Default.aspx

The Rubin Museum of Art presents A Tribute to Ali Akbar Khan by Sarod Master Rajeev Taranath with Samir Chatterjee on Tabla.

One of the foremost sarod players in India brings his artistry to the all-acoustic environment of RMA's theater. Rajeev Taranath is one of India's top classical instrumentalists and exponents of the sarod, the resonant and richly textured relative of the lute.  A distinguished disciple of the late legendary maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, he is the recipient of India's highest government award in the arts in 1999-2000.

Rubin Museum of Art

150 West 17 Street (@ 7 Ave) New York, NY

www.rmanyc.org    Tel: 212.620.5000

Tickets: $25/22.50 for Members (Ticket includes admission to the Exhibit on before the concert).

Hindu Samaj presents “Karyshma”, An Evening of
Sensational Music! Filmi Sangeet, Ghazals and light semiclassical by Gaurav, Falu and their band!

The band brings together the intricacies of ancient Indian musical traditions (classical, thumrie,ghazal, film), the intensity of rock, and the improvisation of jazz. The band’s musicians have trained and played live around the world for over 25 years including at Carnegie Hall, at Radio City Music Hall, on national FOX TV, on international National Geographic TV and for the Indian Prime Minister. 

Featuring:

Gaurav Shah – Vocal, Falu – Vocal, Soumay Chatterjee – Volin, Guitar, Sandeep Swadia – Tabla, Haril Panday - Guitar.

Hindu Samaj

3 Brown Road, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590

General Admission: $ 15 & Students $10 (valid ID).

Sponsors: $100 (2 tickets) & Single $50 (1 ticket).

All sponsors are invited to a pre-concert reception

Contacts (845): Padma Reichwald: 569-4911, Anil Garg: 298-4274, Vasanti Mirchandani: 226-6719

SATURDAY APRIL 24 @ 7:30 PM

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents Classical and semi-classical singing by Smt. Mandira Lahiri and Pratik Devasthale on Tabla.

Mandira Lahiri is a foremost representative of
Louknow Gharana of North Indian Classical (Hindustani) vocal music. She was initiated to Vocal music by her maternal uncle Late Sri Birendra Kumar Phukan and later on under Guru and father-in-law late Pandit Chinmoy Lahiri, the prolific teacher/performer who produced some outstanding performers like Begum Parveen Sultana.

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music

4 West 43 Street, # 618 (5/6 Ave)

New York, NY

http://www.tabla.org                                                 

Tickets: $20, $16 (students and seniors)

SATURDAY APRIL 24 @ 7:30 PM

Deepak Kumar Pareek in Concert!

Deepak's soulful voice and princely bearing create a wonderful atmosphere of meditative yet joyful stirrings in the hearts and souls of his listeners.
Cine Views wrote that Deepak's "voice may best be described as mellifluous, rounded and akin to nature, like the sea softly stroking the seashore" in a review of Deepak's last concert at Jivamukti. He has performed in India and the U.S., with a recent cross-country tour with Musafir, the Rajasthani troupe. Deepak is on the faculty of the East-West School of Music at Ananda Ashram in Monroe, NY where he frequently gives concerts and teaches North Indian vocal music. He was born in Rajasthan, India and started his musical education at the age of five with his father Shri P.N. Vyas. 

Deepak will be playing the harmonium and guitar and will be accompanied by Erhen Hanson, an accomplished tabla player who has accompanied major artists both here and abroad.

Jivamukti Yoga School

841 Broadway (13/14 Street)

2nd floor
New York, NY 10003

Tel: (212) 353-0214

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music proudly presents Neel
Murgai Ensemble performing the World Premier of “Reorientation Suite”!

NEEL MURGAI ENSEMBLE features:

Neel Murgai (sitar)

Mat Maneri (viola),

Sameer Gupta (tabla),

Greg Heffernan (cello)

NME will bring an intriguing blend of instrumentation that will redefine North Indian classical music.

Inspired by issues of orientalism and exoticism that pervade the reception of Neel’s work, “Reorientation Suite” deconstructs ‘world’ and ‘ethnic’ music, while hoping to reorient performer and listener alike to a new understanding. This suite of new music draws from raga, minimalism, jazz and experimental music, but is brought to life by the dynamic cross-cultural improvisation that is the ensemble’s signature sound. http://www.neelmurgai.com

Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall,

58 7th avenue, Brooklyn
(Q/B train to 7th Ave, 2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza)
Tickets: $10 (tickets to be sold at the door, no advance purchase).