CONCERT: Hariharan

Venue: Ganesh Kala Krida manch

Donation Passes will be made available at Spencers Daily & Cafe Cofee Day outlets in Pune.

The Gazal King has graciously accepted to support Charity Initiative by Dr. M L Dhawale Trust. Details about trust - www.mldtrust.org

About the artist:

Hariharan took the Indian musical scene by storm in 1996 with his phenomenally successful "Colonial Cousins" album.This fusion album, which topped the Indian musical charts in 1996 and became the first Indian act to be featured on MTV Unplugged, won Hariharan the international fame that had eluded him in his more than 15-year career as an artiste.

Born in Bombay on April 3rd, 1955, Hariharan has bachelors degrees in science and law. The son of renowned Carnatic vocalists, the late Ananthasubramani ("H. A. S. Mani") from Trivandrum and Shrimati Alamelu, Hariharan naturally inherited his parents' musical talents. Mom was Hariharan's first guruji. Later, in his teens, inspired by the songs of Mehdi Hassan, Hariharan developed a passion for ghazals and started training in Hindustani music from Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan

CONCERT: Trio Alain Brunet

Wednesday 27th February, Mazda Hall, 7.00 pm

Trio Alain Brunet

Alain Brunet, Trumpet and Vocals
Luc Fenoli, Guitar
Jean-Louis Dô, Drums
Manosh Bardhan, Tabla
Debi Prasad, Sarod

In a programme of Jazz and Fusion with Indian classical

The guitarist Luc Fenoli, the drummer Jean-Louis Dô and the singer and trumpetist Alain Brunet, join with the tabla player Manosh Bardhan and the sarod player Debi Prasad for an exceptional tour in India. This project offers to build a musical journey which respects different traditions. This approach brings a humanism that creates links between men and cultures.
In association with Alliance Francaise de Poona

CONCERT: Hungarian Renaissance Music Concert

26th February, St. Paul Church, Near GPO, 7.00 pm

Custos Consort

Sándor Szászvárosi, Viola da gamba
Judit Andrejszki, Voice
Piroska Vitárius, Violin
Gábor Tokodi, Lute

In a programme of music from Renaissance England, Italy and Hungary

Custos Consort is a Renaissance music group led by Sándor Szászvárosi who is a renowned cellist and viola da gamba player in Hungary. He has studied in Huingary, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and the USA and has made many recordings. Since 2001 he has been organizing a series of early music concerts with the aim of presenting the particularly beautiful solo and chamber literature of the viola da gamba, the so called "Gamba Evenings" having been taking place each month in Budapest.

In association with Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi

CONCERT: Sufi and Mystic music festival

Banyan tree events presents
"Ruhaniyat"
Date: 24th Feb 6:30 PM
Venue: Amphetheater, Poona Club, Bund Garden Road, Pune-1.

• Sufi songs by Latif Bolat ( Turkey)
• Baul songs - Parvaty Baul ( West Bengal)
• Sufi Kalam & mystic songs from Rajasthan
• Sufiana kalam - Vitthal Rao (hyderabad)
• Warkari songs from Maharashtra
• Sufi Quwwali - Sabri brothers

Doner passes available at Planet M, Music World

CONCERT: Tabla solo by Pt. Yogesh Samsi

Sunday, 24th Feb, 6 PM
Venue: Garware Collage hall

1) Tabla jugalbandi by Nikhil Phatak and Sameer Puntambekar

2) Tabla Solo by Pt. Yogesh Samsi

About the artist:

Yogesh Samsi

A well-known tabla player of the younger generation, equally at ease with solo performances and while accompanying vocal, instrumental and dance recitals, Yogesh Samsi had an early exposure to music. His father the eminent vocalist Dinkar Kaikini initiated Yogesh at the age of six. His mother Shashikala Kaikini, a vocalist, was also a source of inspiration. Yogesh took his early instruction in tabla under the respected teacher H.Taranath Rao for a period of three years. He was later under the tutelage of the tabla maestro Alla Rakha from the age of ten.

Yogesh Samsi has made a mark for himself as a grade A broadcaster on Indian radio and television networks. A popular performer at most concerts in India and abroad, Yogesh has also conducted tabla workshops. He has been featured on commercial recordings and has also provided research inputs and demonstration for an instructional CD ROM on tabla.

CONCERT: Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Tuesday, 19th Feb
6 PM

Venue: SM Joshi Hall, Ganjawe Chowk, Navi Peth, Pune.

Accompaniment: Tabla: Bharat Kamat, Harmonium: Suyog Kundalkar

About the artist:
Ashwini Bhide began her training at the age of five under the supervision of Pandit Narayanrao Datar. After graduating with a Sangeet Visharad from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, she continued her musical education under the watchful eye of her mother, Manik Bhide, another great Khyal singer. She later received instruction from Pandit Ratnakar Pai. She worked on her first major project with Ravi Shankar, recording the music for the film Gandhi.

Her style is considered extraordinarily versatile: the systematic exhibition of the structure of the Raga and Bahjans, the brilliant phrasing, the variety of the patterns she uses, and the ease with which she moves between three octaves. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande has taken the classical musical styles of India further than any other artist. She has traveled the world, performing music and giving conferences. She is also skilled in the sciences, holding an important position as a microbiologist and biochemist in Bhopal. This combination of art and science, tradition and modernity, has made her a fascinating figure in modern-day India: an intellectual with sensibilities unmatched in recent decades.

CONCERT: Pt. Hariprasad Chourasia

Sunday, 17th Feb, 2008, 9 PM.
Tilak Smarak Mandir

About the artist:Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is known internationally as the greatest living master of Bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is among a few but growing classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music. He is probably the most accessible Hindustani musician who has done a lot to popularize Bansuri and classical music among the masses.Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in 1938 into a non musical family. His father was a wrestler. His mother died when he was very young. Hariprasad had to learn music almost in secret, scared of the father who wanted him to become a wrestler. First he started learning vocal music from Pt. Rajaram at the age of 15. Later, he switched to playing the flute under the tutelage of Pt. Bholanath of Varanasi. Much later, while working for All India Radio, he received guidance from the reclusive Smt. Annapurna Devi

CONCERT: Pt. Babanrao Haldankar

Noted vocalist from agara and jaipur gharana, Pt. Babanrao Haldankar will perform on 17th Feb at Bharat Ganay Samaj near Shanipar.

Venue: Bharat Gayan Samaj, Near Shanipar, Bajirao Road
Date and Time: 9 AM, Sunday, 17th Feb

About the artist:Pt. Babanrao Haldankar is a stalwart of both Agra and Jaipur-Atrauli gharanas, having being trained by Ustad Khadim Hussein and Anwar Hussein (Agra Gharana) and Smt Mogubai Kurdikar (Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana). Pt. Haldankar is today well known as a guru, composer, scholar-thinker and performer. He has composed more than 200 Raga texts in vilambit (slow composition), drut (fast composition) and Taranas. He has published several books in Hindi, Marathi and English. These are valuable treatises covering the expanse of Hindustani Classical Music and unique explanations of the theory and performance of Ragas. He has several CD's and cassettes to his credit.

Concert: Pt. Ronu Majumdar (Flute)

Date and Time: 14th Feb, 6:30 PM.
Venue: Tilak Smarak
This years Jasraj Gourav Puraskar will be given to notel flautist Shri. Ronu Majumdar. He will perform on this occasion.
About the artist:
Ronu Majumdar is a noted flautist in the Hindustani Classical Music tradition. Born in Varanasi on June 20, 1963, Ranendranath Majumdar, popularly known as Ronu was trained under his father and later learned vocal music with the late Pt. Laxman Prasad Jaipurwale at whose behest he reverted to the flute. In 1981, Ronu Majumdar won the first prize at the All India Radio competition.
Today, Ronu Majumdar is among the more popular musicians on this instrument, and is especially popular with the younger generation for his creative improvisations. An energetic and indefatigable performer, Pt Majumdar's music is rooted in the Maihar gharana which has thrown up musicians of eminence like Pt Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Apart from his concerts all over India in different music festivals, he also participated in the Festival of India in Moscow and Asiad '82 in New Delhi. He has toured extensively in Europe, the USA , Canada, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and the Middle East.
His speciality is the "Shank Bansuri", a 3-ft long flute of his own design, which adds an extra dimension at the lower scales. Pt. Majumdar is also known for a number of collaborations and jugalbandis with other leading instrumentalists. An innovative composer, he has also composed several pieces in a fusion of Hindustani classical with other forms of music, particularly Western Classical Music, including the projects Carrying Hope (Music Today), A Traveller's Tale, Song of Nature (Magnasound), Kal Akela Kahan (Plus Music).

Pt. Ronu Majumdar (Flute)

Venue: Tilak Smarak

Thursday, 14 Feb, 2008, 6 PM.

This years Jasraj Gourav Puraskar will be given to notel flautist Shri. Ronu Majumdar. He will perform on this occasion.

About the artist:

Ronu Majumdar is a noted flautist in the Hindustani Classical Music tradition. Born in Varanasi on June 20, 1963, Ranendranath Majumdar, popularly known as Ronu was trained under his father and later learned vocal music with the late Pt. Laxman Prasad Jaipurwale at whose behest he reverted to the flute. In 1981, Ronu Majumdar won the first prize at the All India Radio competition.

Today, Ronu Majumdar is among the more popular musicians on this instrument, and is especially popular with the younger generation for his creative improvisations. An energetic and indefatigable performer, Pt Majumdar's music is rooted in the Maihar gharana which has thrown up musicians of eminence like Pt Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Apart from his concerts all over India in different music festivals, he also participated in the Festival of India in Moscow and Asiad '82 in New Delhi. He has toured extensively in Europe, the USA , Canada, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and the Middle East.

His speciality is the "Shank Bansuri", a 3-ft long flute of his own design, which adds an extra dimension at the lower scales. Pt. Majumdar is also known for a number of collaborations and jugalbandis with other leading instrumentalists. An innovative composer, he has also composed several pieces in a fusion of Hindustani classical with other forms of music, particularly Western Classical Music, including the projects Carrying Hope (Music Today), A Traveller's Tale, Song of Nature (Magnasound), Kal Akela Kahan (Plus Music).

Vasant Utsav

Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande Pratishthan organizes a two-day festival every year titled - VASANT UTSAV, in Pune, in the memory of Late Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande. This year is the 25th Death Anniversary of Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande. To commemorate this occasion, the Pratishthan has planned to organize a three-day music festival with WORLDMUSIC as its theme. Vasantrao appreciated all genres of music. For him, it transcended all boundaries and touched every person's heart in some way or the other. The objective of this festival is get different forms of music under the same roof and to share a common platform. The festival will therefore see programs ranging from pure Indian Classical music, Ghazals and Sufi to a rich blend of mesmerizing fusion sequences.

Nana Patekar, a name that needs no introduction, will be hosting the entire festival.

The festival promises its discerning, music loving audience a treat of their lifetime. Pune will stand witness to a show whose grandeur will leave everyone spellbound and in which performances by consummate artists, will leave the audience captivated and craving for more. Be prepared for the best of best!!

Ticket sales will commence in the last week of January '08.

Here are the other details for Vasant Utsav '08:

Dates : 8th, 9th and 10th of February, 2008.

Venue : The Ramanbaug High School ground, Pune, India

Time : 18:30 - 22:00 hrs, daily.

Here is the day wise program:

Friday, 8th Feb' 2008

1. Rahul Deshpande (Vocal)

2. Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan,

A. Sivamani and U. Shrinivas. (Fusion)

Saturday, 9th Feb' 2008

1. Dr. L. Subramaniam (Violin)

2. Begum Abida Parveen (Vocal)

Sunday, 10th Feb' 2008

1. Ghulam Ali (Vocal)

2. Smt. Kishori Amonkar (Vocal)

Ticket Rates:-

1. Chair (season ticket) :- Rs. 2000

2. Bharatiy baithak (season ticket) :- Rs. 350.

From 27th January onwards Tickets will be available at following locations:-

1. Balgandharva Rangmandir, JM road, Pune.
2. Yashwantrav Chavhan Natyagruh, Kothrud, Pune
3. Tilak Smarak Mandir, Tilak Road, Pune
4. Navdikar Musicals, Tilak road, Near S.P. College,
5. Shirish Traders, Near kamla Nehru park, Pune

पं. जीतेन्द्र अभिषेकी संगीत महोत्सव

२ फेब. २००८, सायं. ५:३०

बालगंधर्व रंगमंदिर

कलाकार
१) पं. सुधाकर देवळे (गायन)
२) पं. पार्थोसारथी ( सरोद )
३) पं. उल्हास कशाळकर ( गायन)

"Dil-e-naadan", a Ghazal concert by Prachi Dublay and Dattaprasad Ranade.

Venue: Bharat Natya Mandir

Time: 1st February, 2008, 5:30 PM.

About the artists:

Prachi Dubaly: Young Vocalist in the field of Hindustani Music. Performance includes Thumree-Dadra, Traditional Ghazals, Folksongs, Sufee-kalaam & Bhajans from various regions of India.Born in the family of artists, has acquired basic training from her mother. Received advance training in Music from eminent artist Dr. Suhasini Koratkar. Studying Urdu Poetry with Prof. Satish Bahadur, a well-known film critic & a scholar of Urdu. Also, taken special lessons in Voice-Culture from the maestro of Indian Music Dr. Ashok Da Ranade.

Dattaprasad Ranade: Ghalzal singer, actor and composer, shri. ranade has received guidance from none other than Ustad Mehendi Hasan.