In april 2007 gaf de jonge Indiase zangeres Kaushiki Chakrabarty in Nederland en België een serie concerten. Vlak voor de start van deze tournee sprak ik in Amsterdam met deze winnares van de BBC World Music Award 2005 (voor haar album ‘Pure’) en enkele dagen later bezocht ik haar concert in het Amsterdamse Tropeninstituut.
In het wereldmuziekmagazine Mixed (no.1, zomer 2007) gaf ik in een artikel, Kaushiki Chakrabarty-Een vocaal wonder uit India, mijn indrukken van dit concert, aangevuld met achtergrondinformatie over haar muziek. Klik op de foto hieronder (en daarna nog een keer om verder te vergroten) om het artikel te lezen.
On Friday 31 July 2009, from 21.00 to 22.30 PM (dutch time), Gharana - my Concertzender programme on raga musicians and their performing tradition - features singer T.M. Krishna (b.1976) from Chennai (formerly Madras), one of the young top performers in carnatic -or South Indian- raga music. He’s known for his glowing voice and (more…)
On Friday 29 May -from 21.00 to 22.30 PM, dutch time- there’ll be a broadcast of a new episode of Gharana, my programme on Indian classical music for Holland’s finest musicstation, the Concertzender. This time the programme focuses on Chitravina N. Ravikiran (b.1967), a celebrated musician in South Indian carnatic music. He has been labeled ‘the Mozart of India’ by critics. He’s a virtuoso on a lute called the chitravina. It’s the world’s oldest fretless slide instrument still being played. Ravikiran was a prodigy and he became famous already at the age of two (more…)
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On Friday 30 January 2009 9:00 pm my 90-minute Concertzender radio programme Gharana features renowned sitarist Irshad Khan (1963). He grew up in (more…)
From 12 to 30 november 2008 the Concertgebouw and a number of other cultural venues in Amsterdam organise a spectacular festival devoted to India, The Amsterdam India Festival.
On Friday 31 october 2008 my radio programme Gharana on Indian classical music previews the festival’s musical programme by having a look at the scheduled ragaconcerts with dutch musicologist Joep Bor, an internationally acclaimed researcher in the field of raga music. I interview him
On Friday August 29th 2008 8:00 pm my 90-minute Concertzender radio programme Gharana will focus on 39 year old tabla player Yogesh Samsi from Mumbai. He’s considered one of India’s very best musicians. I interviewed (more…)
On Friday May 30th at 8:00 pm I’ll be featuring brilliant sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee from Calcutta in my 90-minute radio programme Gharana. Only 31 years of age, for the last ten years he’s been considered one of the country’s top sitar artists despite his youth. In India, artists of that age are usually regarded as just beginning their mastery. (more…)
