“the highest quality performances of Indian classical music” BBC Radio 3

Box office:

southbankcentre.co.uk/ darbarfestival 0844 847 9910

27 – 30 September 2012

at Southbank CentreFestival 2012 Darbar

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Double Bill: Pulsatingsurshingar and violin maestrosJoydeep Ghosh surshingarShubh Maharaj tabla

Double bill: Rare ragas and dhrupadManjiri Asnare-Kelkar khyal vocalVishwanath Shirodkar tablaTanmay Deochake harmoniumMurad Ali nagma sarangi

Double bill: Carnatic rhythms to sublime khayalThevarajah Pirashanna mridangam Bangalore Prakash ghatam, Aravindhan Baheerathan bansuri, Kandiah Sithamparanathan khanjira & moorsing

Fingers that roar: pakhawaj soloChitrangana Agle-Reshwal pakhawajMurad Ali sarangi

£20, £15

Pandit Arvind Parikh pays tribute to Ustad Vilyat Khan in conversaion with Dharambir Singh MBE

£15 £12

In conversation with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri with Dharambir Singh MBE

£15 £12

Sublime morning ragas onthe bansuriPandit Rajendra Prasanna bansuriShubh Maharaj tabla

£20 £15

Majestic morning ragas on the SitarUstad Shujaat Khan sitarPandit Swapan Chaudhuri tabla

£20 £15

Mysore Nagraj violinMysore Manjunath violinSrimushnam Raja Rao mridangamN. Venkatesh kanjiraR.N Prakash ghatam

£25, £20

Pushpraj Koshti surbaharShrikanth Mishra pakhawaj

£25 £20

Shruti Sadolikar Katkar khayal vocalVishwanath Shirodkar tablaTanmay Deochake harmoniumMurad Ali sarangi

£25 £20

Pandit Ram Deshpande khayal vocalVishwanath Shirodkar tablaTanmay Deochake harmoniumMurad Ali sarangi

£25 £20

Romantic Music of VaranasiPandit Rajendra Prasanna shennaiSanju Sahai tabla

£20, £15

Tabla solo: Lucknow stylePandit Swapan Chaudhuri tabla soloTanmay Deochake harmonium nagma

£20 £15

Afternoon Raga UnveiledPrattyush Banerjee sarodSanju Sahai tabla

£20 £15

Festival at a glanceSaturday 29th SeptFriday 28th Sept Sunday 30th Sept

Festival Pass only £130 and get FREE book + DVD

Includes a fantastic 240 page coffee table book: Darbar Arts Culture Heritage plus an hour long DVD of Sky Arts excerpts from previous Darbar concerts. Festival pass holders get preferential seating. Festival passes seats are allocated on first come basis.

Thursday 27th Sept

“Darbar offers a rich and varied programme that invites its audience to begin a relationship with this extraordinary repertoire or to deepen and mature an appreciation and understanding.”

Jude Kelly, Artistic Director Southbank Centre

Double bill: Saraswati veena to Hindustani grooveChitraveena Ravikiran veena Jyotsna Shrikanth violin Srimushnam Raja Rao mridangamNeyveli B Venkatesh kanjira

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Fingers that roar:pakhawaj soloChitrangana Agle-Reshwal pakhawajMurad Ali sarangi The pakhawaj is one of the oldest percussion instruments in the world. Hear it played by Agle-Reshwal, one of India’s only female classical pakhawaj soloists. She brings alive the powerful sound of this ancient drum and makes it roar.

1pm, £20 £15

Afternoon Concert:

Romantic music of varanasiPandit Rajendra Prasanna shennaiSanju Sahai tabla

Experience the flute in the hands ofIndia’s great master, Pandit Prasanna, a fifth generation musician, who is accompanied by tabla maestro Sahai. Pandit Prasanna has been described as ‘the only one who excels in playingthe flute and shennai’ by Pandit Ravi Shankar.

3.30pm, £20 £15

Evening Concert:

Double bill: Rare ragasand dhrupadManjiri Asnare-Kelkar khyal vocalVishwanath Shirodkar tablaTanmay Deochake harmoniumMurad Ali sarangi

Pushpraj Koshti surbaharShrikanth Mishra pakhawaj

A double bill featuring classical singing from one of India’s greatest next generation maestros, Asnare-Kelkar, and the first UK concert of Koshti playing the rare surbahar, a kind of bass sitar.

6.30pm, £25 £20

Afternoon Concert:

Afternoon raga unveiledPrattyush Banerjee sarodSanju Sahai tabla

Banerjee is a unique musician who has beensuccessfully multi-tasking as performer, musicarranger, composer, researcher and instrumentdesigner. He plays the sarod (lute) in thisconcert accompanied by one of the UK’s mostexhilarating tabla maestros, Sahai, from a tablalineage of several generations.

3.30pm, £20 £15

Morning Concert:

Sublime morning ragas onthe bansuriPandit Rajendra Prasanna bansuriShubh Maharaj tablaIndia’s great bansuri (flute) maestro, Prasanna,is known for his playful vivacity in his renderings of Indian classical ragas. Maharaj provides a flamboyant and exciting tabla accompaniment on his first UK performance.

10am, £20 £15

Afternoon Talk:

Tribute to Ustad VilayatKhan (1928-2004)Pandit Arvind Parikh sitarA rare insight into one of the greatest sitarplayers India has produced. Arvind Parikh talksabout his life as a friend and student of thelegendary Ustad Vilayat Khan and plays shortpieces by the great maestro. An in-conversation session with Dharambir Singh MBE.

1.15pm, £15 £12

Evening Concert:

Double bill: Saraswati veenato Hindustani grooveChitraveena Ravikiran veenaJyotsna Shrikanth violinSrimushnam Raja Rao mridangamNeyveli B Venkatesh kanjira

Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar khayal vocalVishwanath Shirodkar tablaTanmay Deochake harmoniumMurad Ali sarangi

A double bill featuring world-class artists,including the great Carnatic maestro, Chitraveena Ravikiran, and Sadolikar-Katkar, one of India’s finest living vocalists in the Hindustani tradition.

6.30pm, £25 £20

Afternoon Concert:

Tabla solo: Lucknow style

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri tabla soloTanmay Deochake harmonium nagma

Pandit Chaudhuri is a phenomenon in the worldof tabla. His music is the spontaneous expression of powerful emotions and a deep knowledge of the instrument. He returns to the Darbar Festivalafter his breathtaking solo in 2006.

3.30pm, £20 £15

Morning Concert:

Majestic morning ragason the sitarUstad Shujaat Khan sitarPandit Swapan Chaudhuri tabla

Khan, a seventh-generation musician, gives hisdebut morning ragas UK concert, performingin the gayaki style on the sitar which imitatesthe subtleties of the human voice. He isaccompanied on tabla by one of India’s greatest tabla maestros, Pandit Chaudhuri.

10am, £20 £15

Evening Concert:

Double bill: Carnaticrhythms to sublime khayalThevarajah Pirashanna mridangamBangalore Prakash ghatam Aravindhan Baheerathan bansuriKandiah Sithamparanathan khanjira &moorsing

Pandit Ram Deshpande khayal vocalVishwanath Shirodkar tablaTanmay Deochake harmoniumMurad Ali sarangi

The Darbar Festival closes with a double billfeaturing mridangam expert Pirashanna, followed by Pandit Deshpande, regarded as one of the most talented up-and-coming performers of Indian vocal technique.

6.30pm, £25 £20

Evening Concert:

Double Bill: Pulsatingsurshingar and violin maestrosJoydeep Ghosh surshingarShubh Maharaj tabla

Mysore Nagraj violinMysore Manjunath violinSrimushnam Raja Rao mridangamN. Venkatesh kanjiraR.N Prakash ghatam

Ghosh plays the surshingar, a luteinstrument with a deep resonance, accompanied by Maharaj on the tabla, making his UK debut. India’s greatest violin duo, the Mysore Brothers, perform in the UK for the first time.

6pm, £25 £20

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Afternoon Talk:

Tabla talkTabla talk provides an insight into the life andtimes of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, celebratedas one of the world’s greatest tabla players.An in-conversation session with DharambirSingh MBE.

1.15pm, £15 £12

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Pandit Rajendra Presanna

Mysore Brothers

Chitrangana Agle-Reshwal

Pushpraj Koshti

Ustad Vilayat Khan with Pt Arvind Parikh

Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar

Ustad Shujaat Khan

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri

Thevarajah Pirashanna

Pandit Ram Deshpande

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