[Poster for Kartik Seshadri's performance of Illuminations at Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal, Canada]

Creator: Kabir Cultural Centre

2007-04-15

Poster advertising a performance of Illuminations at Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal, Canada. Features Kartik Seshadri on the sitar and Arup Chattopahdyay on the tabla. Kartik Seshadri is sitar player, composer and teacher of Indian classical music. He was born in 1957 in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. He is a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar and the director of the Indian Classical Music Ensemble at the University of California, San Diego. Arup Chattophadyay is a tabla player. He was born on October 11, 1961 in the city of Chandannagar in West Bengal, India. He is the son of the tabla player Pankaj Chattopadhyay and a disciple of Pandit Sankar Ghosh of the Farukkhabad gharana (school).

"Kartik Seshadri is a world-renowned sitar virtuoso, composer, educator and foremost disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Seshadri has recently collaborated on the Orion project with the noted composer Phillip Glass and the Brazilian Group UAKTI with worldwide." -Kabir Cultural Centre "The mood here was sensual, even blissful...with the piece ending in an ecstatic cloud of swirling notes." -The Washington Post, Washington, DC The sitar is a plucked string instrument invented in medieval india. The name comes from sat tär, meaning "seven strings" in Hindi. The sitar has 6 or 7 played strings that are plucked with a plectrum called a mizraab in addition to a much greater number of resonance strings which run beneath the instrument's frets. The tabla is a pair of single-headed hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. The small, conical righthand drum is called the dayan and is used to created treble or tonal sounds. The larger, kettledrum-like lefthand drum is called the baya and is used for producing bass. The tabla owes its unique sound to the coat of syahi "tuning paste" applied to specific areas on the skin of each drum. *Date listed refers to date of performance.

1 poster

In copyright