Sounds of Asia

Sounds of Asia: Vibrant Folk Music from Rajasthan & Taiko Drumming

Showcasing Asian Music Circuit’s Summer School teacher, Liz Walters on Taiko Drumming and a folk group from Rajasthan, this concert will put an emphasis on traditional music at festivals and drums. Both performances are very high energy!

Thursday 29 July 2010 7.45pm, £12 (£6)
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX
Tel: 08716632500
Web: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk
 

Sounds of Asia: Satish Prakash Qamar and his Shehnai Ensemble & Chinese and Japanese Strings

From devotional music in temples, to uplift spirits in battlefields, keeping the eight watches of the day in palaces, celebrating weddings to classical music of the concert stage – the beautiful and versatile Shehnai cannot fail to impress, especially in the hands of a master of the calibre of Satish Prakash Qamar.
Satish trained in the vocal tradition under the great singers of the Delhi Gharana, Ustad Chand Khan and Ustad Nasir Ahmed Khan. Satish revels in not only playing classical North Indian ragas but also the romantic style of thumri as well as folk styles such as chaiti, dadra, dhun. He learned the shahnai from his father and brother but also took inspiration from the doyen of shehnai players Ustad Bismillah Khan.
The Shehnai Ensemble will be followed by a series of performance of Strings Instruments from both China and Japan, with the inspiring notes of Dr. Ayako Hotta-Lister on koto, Zhu Xiaomeng on guzheng, Cheng Yu on pipa and Dai Xiaolian on guqin.

Friday 30 July 2010, 7.45pm, £12 (£6)

Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX
Tel: 08716632500
Web: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk