A Morning of Hindustani Vocal Music
By
Dr. Sharad Gadre (Vocal)
Sri Kuntal Roy (Tabla) and Makarand Gadre (Harmonium)
Date & Time: Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 10:00am
Venue: Vedic Cultural Center, 18108 NE 76th ST,
Redmond, WA 98052
Admission: Free. Donation Welcome
Dr. Sharad Gadre
Sharad started learning classical music from the age of 11 from a local musician in his home town. After moving to Pune for his education, he learned from two stalwarts of the Gwaliar Gharana, Pt. Yashewant Sadashiv Mirashibuwa, and Pt. Nagesh Khalikar, for 6 years. In 1958, he was a finalist as the representative of the Pune radio station in the national competition in Delhi. for young musicians under 21, sponsored by All India Radio. After leaving India for higher education, he continued to develop his music on his own. He moved to Seattle in 1969 after completing his Ph. D. in Structural Engineering from Imperial College in London, UK, and has been living there since then. He was a major part of the first introduction of Indian classical music to the Seattle area in early 1970s in organizing the first few concerts by visiting musicians such as Prabha Atre and Jitendra Abhisheki. That effort led to the beginning of Ragamala which has been operating in Seattle for the past 26 years
|
|
Holding a full time job at Boeing, Sharad continued his pursuit of music and developed his harmonium accompanist skills as well. He has accompanied several prominent visiting musicians such as Prabah Atre, Jitendra Abhisheki, Pandit Jasraj, Dinkar Kaikini, Ullhas Kashalkar, Yunus Husain Khan, Lilit Rao, Sanjeev Abhyankar and others in their concerts in Seattle and in the Pacific Northwest. He has composed several classical compositions and has been active in teaching classical music to several students over the last few years. Over the years he has given concerts and workshops in the Pacific Northwest.
In addition to being a musician, Sharad is also an accomplished computing professional and he combined these two skills in developing RagaParichaya, a software program for PCs, with extensive audio capability, that can help musicians at all levels by providing extensive facilities for self-learning of 70 commonly performed Ragas, doing the basic practice patterns or 'riyaj', and documenting and recording compositions composed by users. Sharad is currently working on providing improvisation facilities in the program and on making it available on-line.
|
|
|
Kuntal Roy is an up and coming Tabla player based in Kolkata, India. Kuntal was initiated into tabla by Sri Narayan Chandra Halder at a very early age. He continued his studies with Sri Radha Raman Nath, a student of Pt. Anindo Chatterjee from 1984. Kuntal has been a disciple of Pt. Shankar Ghosh since 1991. He also frequently receives talim from Sri Vikram Ghosh on different aspects of rhythm.
|
|
|
Melody, clarity and precision are some of the characteristics of Kuntal’s playing. Kuntal has already given a number of solo as well as accompaniment performances with vocal and instrumental music and dance on the stage in India and abroad. He has participated in percussion ensembles composed and directed by Sri Bikram Ghosh. He is currently on a concert tour in the United States of America. He visited the USA in the Fall of 2006 providing tabla accompaniment to the renowned sitar player Gaurav Mazumdar. They received high accolades for their performances from appreciative audiences in venues such as Seattle, Spokane, Boise, Portland, and Cornell University among others. He has also accompanied notable artists including Pandit Nayan Ghosh in concerts. He also teaches tabla to a number of students and conducts workshops.
Kuntal possesses a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Calcutta University.
|
|
Makarand Gadre is a technology professional, who lives in Redmond, and is an accomplished harmonium player. He is largely self-taught as to harmonium technique, but has relied on his uncle Sharad Gadre for getting guidance on the finer points of raga characteristics and dynamics. He has accompanied local as well as visiting artists in Seattle.
|
|
Contact: info@pratidhwani.org
|
