If classical music is your passion, you’re in for a real treat!  On Saturday, April 15th and Sunday, April 16th, LearnQuest Academy of Music will host a two-day Indian classical music conference (Sangeet Sammelan) at the Fine Arts Center of Regis College in Weston.

This first-of-its-kind event in Massachusetts, offering almost 10 hours of continuous music each day, will feature some of India’s top instrumental and vocal artists, spanning several generations and legacies.

The artists:
*  Imrat Hussein Khan (Sitar)  *  Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (Vocal - Kheyal)  *  Vijay Ghate (Tabla)  
*  Ali Ahamad Hussein Khan (Shehnai)  *  Mashkoor Ali Khan (Vocal - Kheyal)  *  Nitin Mitta (Tabla)  
*  Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury (Violin)  *  Rahul Deshpande (Vocal - Kheyal) *  Samir Chatterjee (Tabla)  
*  Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi)  *   Kalpana Zokarkar (Vocal - Kheyal)  *  Nayan Ghosh (Sitar and Tabla)  
*  Ashish Khan (Sarod)  *  Gundecha Brothers (Vocal - Dhrupad)  *  Shubhen Chatterjee (Tabla)  
*  Flute Raman (Flute - Carnatic)  *  Lance Van Lenten (Saxophone)  *  Bharat Kamat (Tabla)  
*  Rakesh Chaurasia (Flute - Hindustani)  *  Bill Urmson (Bass)  *  Akhilesh Gundecha (Pakhawaj)  
*  Marc Rossi (Piano and synthesizer)  *  Rajeev Paranjpe (Harmonium)  *  Nikhil Phatak (Tabla)  
*  Durga Krishnan (Veena)  *  Suyog Kundalkar (Harmonium)  *  Mahalingam Jayaraman (Mridangam)  
*  Abhijit Pohankar (Indian Classical Keyboard)  *  Mauricio Zottarelli (Western Drums and percussion)  
 
Some highlights:
*  Conference Theme: Hindustani Classical Music and its interactions with other classical music styles (Carnatic and Western Jazz)  
*  Covers most major instruments of Indian classical music (sitar, sarod, shehnai, violin, flute, tabla)  
*  Includes five vocal music items - one in the ancient Dhrupad style and four in the contemporary Kheyal style  
*  A lecture by Prof. George Ruckert of MIT on "A Historical Perspective on Indian Classical Music"
*  A lecture by Ustad Imrat Khan on "Gayaki and Tantrakari styles in Indian Instrumental Music"  
*  A flute-sitar Carnatic-Hinustani jugalbandi (duet)  
*  Indian influenced original Jazz, and a unique item called "Music Triveni" where the artists from three streams of
   classical music (Carnatic, Hindustani and Jazz) perform together for the common purpose of musical expression

Conference details and registration information are available on the LearnQuest web site at http://www.learnquest.org/ .

Time:
April 15th, 2006, Saturday, 10 am - 11 pm
April 16th, 2006, Sunday, 10 am - 8 pm 
 
Venue:
Fine Arts Center
Regis College
Weston, MA 
 
For directions visit:
http://www.learnquest.org/concerts/directions.html
 
Registration:
Single - $75 until March 31, $90 after March 31, 2006
Group (two or more) - $65 until March 31, $75 after March 31, 2006
Fulltime Students with id - $45 until March 31, $60 after March 31, 2006 
 
You can also register by going to http://www.learnquest.org/concerts/directions.html
and following the link by clicking on the conference ad-box.
  
For more information, and for artists' bios and pictures please visit:
http://www.learnquest.org/concerts/
 
Contacts:
*  Roopa Bhide - 781-444-4345  *  Ranjit Desai - 617-823-2146  *  Dipankar Deshmukh - 603-425-7930 *  Bhanu Jayaraman - 617-596-4447  *  Vinod Chungi - 617-383-5561  *  Subir Mallick - 781-275-8518 
*  Avi Parwardhan - 508-450-1991  * Satyajit Ray - 978-828-7727  *  Nasim Rizvi - 603-437-7133  *  Jaspal Singh - 617-497-0316  *  Nishikant Sonwalkar - 617-642-1767  *  Sadhana Upadhyay - 978-371-9192

If you are unable to view the conference poster below, please visit:
http://www.learnquest.org/concerts/images/EFlyer.gif.
 
 

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