Ustad Shahid Parvez
Khan (Sitar)
with
Sri Subhajyoti Guha (Tabla)
Sunday, September 14,
2008, 4:00 pm
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A rare treat is in
store for denizens of the Twin Cities! The Indian Music Society of
Minnesota (IMSOM), together with The India Center Initiative at the
University of Minnesota, will be jointly presenting a concert of Indian
classical music by the world renowned Sitar maestro Ustad Shahid Parvez
Khan, accompanied by the sensational Subhajyoti Guha on Tabla.
Tickets:
Purchase advance tickets online (you save $5/ticket by purchasing in advance)
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Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is universally acknowledged as one of the
greatest living exponents of
the Sitar, easily the best known of
all Indian string instruments. He is the son of Ustad
Aziz Khan, famous musician and noted composer and the
grandson of Ustad Wahid Khan, Surbahar
and Sitar grandmaster and uncle to Ustad
Vilayat Khan. Shahid Parvez Khan was introduced by his father to vocal
music, Tabla and Sitar from a very
young age, gave his first public performance at
the age of eight and has gone on to become undoubtedly one of the most
widely
recognized Sitarists the world over.
Shahid Parvez Khan is renowned above
all, for his
tremendous control of meend, the
technique of pulling the main melody string of the Sitar
laterally across the instrument’s frets to vary the pitch.
This technique allows a wide range of effects from the continuous
sliding
between notes to the most delicate oscillations on a single note, and
effectively allows the Sitarist to
imitate closely the ways in which voice is used in Indian music. The Ustad has also
worked very hard to emphasize the unique capabilities of the Sitartantrakari) into a tradition
otherwise heavily reliant on models of
classical vocal music (gayaki). This
uncanny blend of both styles, the gayaki (vocal)
and the tantrakari (instrumental) and
the rare genius for combining romantic intensity with technical
brilliance,
makes Khan the foremost Sitarist of
our times.
Subhajyoti Guha
is one among the new generation of Tabla exponents, taking this world
pleasing and most popular percussion instrument to greater heights in
the 21st century. An award-winning prodigy from a musical family,
Subhajyoti was introduced to Tabla at age five by his father Dr. Smriti
Ranjan Guha, a disciple of late Ustad Keramatullah Khan of Farukkabad
Gharana. He has since studied with Pandit Sankha Chatterjee and
performed internationally as soloist and accompanist with some of
India’s leading musicians.
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About
the Venue:
Directions and parking:
300 Washington Ave. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
The Coffman
Memorial Union is in the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. Parking is available in the East River Road
Garage. Click here for directions
to the Coffman Memorial Union.
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Acknowledgments:
IMSOM’s Fall 2008 Concert Series
has been supported in part by funds provided by the Metropolitan
Regional Arts Council’s (MRAC) Arts Activities Support and Capital
Grants, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature,
the Honeywell “Dollars for Doers” Grant, and IMSOM
members. The India Center Initiative at the University of Minnesota is funded in part by the Minnesota
State Legislature. This concert is co-sponsored by KFAI
“Fresh Air” Radio ( 90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul ).

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For further information contact: Durgesh
(durgeshmanjure@yahoo.com 651.356.1224) or Sudha
(indiactr@umn.edu/612.625.8045)
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