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Flutist
Annada (Butto) Prasanna Pattanaik is one of India’s
foremost classical bansuri (bamboo flute) artists. Butto
performs as a soloist throughout India and Asia, has toured Europe many
times, and performs in many world music festivals. He is the most
highly sought after flutist in the film recording industry in Southern
India. His enchanting flute playing is featured on over 1000 film
songs. In addition, Butto has made numerous solo recordings,
including Inner Vision, Deep Sky, Igneous, and India Songs.
Butto studied with renowned flutist Mr. M.M. Patnaik, and graduated
with a Sangeet Visharada Purna degree from Pracheen Kala Kendra School,
Chandigarth, India. He then began two years of intensive studies
with the India’s leading bansuri maestro, Pandit Hari Prasad
Chaurasia. Butto now lives in Bangalore. Visit him at www.talkingbamboo.blogspot.com
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 Double bassist Dr. Paul
Erhard is pioneering the use of the double bass in
Indian music to bring the soulful sound of this Western instrument to
wider audiences. Inspired by the beauty, purity and expressive
quality of Indian music, Paul combines the rich singing tone of
classical bowed bass and the rhythmic energy of jazz bass to create a
new sound in Indian music. He has studied with leading Indian musicians
Prabir Bhattacharya, sitar, Roshan Bhartiya, sitar, and V Krishnamurty,
veena and vocal. Paul has made numerous research trips to India,
including a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian
Studies in 2002. Paul is the professor of double bass at the
University of Colorado College of Music in Boulder. He performs as a
soloist and teaches extensively throughout USA and Europe, and is well
known in classical music circles. He also has extensive jazz
experience. Paul holds Doctoral and Masters degrees from Juilliard
School as a student of Homer Mensch, the Bachelors degree from Eastman
School of Music as a student of James VanDemark, and is the winner of
the 1984 Juilliard Double Bass Solo Competition. More at www.amazingbass.net |
Tabla
drum player Muthu Kumar has been playing tabla since age
five. Muthu performs and records extensively in India and
abroad. His eagerness to explore has enabled him to perform in a
wide variety of musical settings. He has performed on over 70
Bhajan, Ghazal, Indian Classical and Contemporary music recordings, and
is heard on numerous Indian film recordings (Kannada and Tamil).
During his 12-month tour of the USA in 2002-03, he performed and
recorded such diverse music as Indian, Jazz, Gospel, and Hip-Hop.
Influences from this tour inspired him to compose the music for his
solo CD, Tabla Rap. Muthu studied in Bombay with the tabla
legend Ustad Alla Rakha. He received his advanced tabla training
from the great tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain and Pandit Yogesh
Samsi. Muthu founded Singing Drums a school for tabla in Bangalore,
India.
Visit Muthu at www.singingdrums.com |
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