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Warren Senders / Hindustani Vocal Music
About the Artistes
Warren Senders -- khyal vocals
Warren Senders has studied Hindustani vocal music since 1977 in India and the US and has been performing professionally in India, Europe and North America since 1991. His background includes extensive training in the Gwalior and Kirana gharana styles of khyal singing. His first teacher was Smt. Kalpana Mazumder, a disciple of Amir Khan's Calcutta shagird Pt. Usha Ranjan Mukherjee. After eight years he went to Pune and worked for one year under the auspices of the Kirana gharanas leading light, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. In 1986, Mr. Senders became a disciple of Pt. S.G. Devasthali, a senior disciple of the innovative Gwalior gharana maestro, vocalist/ violinist Pt. Gajananrao Joshi. Pt. Devasthali also learnt from Pt. Anant Manohar Joshi, Pt. Gangadhar Shreedhar Joshi and Ustad Mohammad Hussain Khan, developing an original gayaki which included elements of Gwalior, Agra, Jaipur-Atrauli and Bhendi Bazaar gharana styles, all of which he passed on to Warren in extensive and detailed daily taleem. Reflecting his Guru's eclectic background, Warren Senders' singing is an engaging synthesis of various gharana traditions, with the most emphasis on his Gwalior-Jaipur lineage. An internationally recognized educator, Mr. Senders has given hundreds of lecture-demonstrations, master-classes and clinics, for interested learners from kindergarteners to elders. He has developed extensive course material on the structure and aesthetics of Hindustani music, and has introduced students at colleges and universities all over the United States, Canada and India to aspects of Indian music. He is a faculty member of the New England Conservatory of Music.Quotes:...an amazing man, an amazing artist. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, interviewed in Little India, September 2002, Only an artist of great maturity could successfully balance this unique combination of elements, such as the accented rhythms of the Agra gharana and the heavy rubato of the Kirana gharana...a level of inventiveness and emotional expression that is extraordinary. Teed Rockwell, India Currents, September 1999, His tayyari was overwhelmingly evident, both in the quality of his well modulated voice and his presentation of the khayal. The quality of his resonant voice, capable of rendering the granular taans of Jaipur gharana, impressed one instantly. His arrival at the Sam in the polished way like the good exponents of the same gharana was also remarkable. N.K. Mudgal, Delhi Evening News, Jan. 28, 1991
George Ruckert -- harmonium
A performer, composer, arranger, author and teacher, Dr. George Ruckert is one of that rare breed of artists with extensive background in the disciplines of both western and Indian classical music. He is one of the senior-most disciples of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Besides being a highly accomplished solo artist on the Sarod, Dr. Ruckert is also an equally accomplished harmonium player and has recorded and performed with several of the finest Indian vocalists. He is one of the founders of and Artistic Director for MITHAS, MIT Heritage of the Arts of Southasia.
Akshay Navaladi -- tabla
Born into a family of classical music lovers, Akshay commenced his music lessons at the age of 6 years. After a year of training on the keyboards, Akshay’s fascination for the more magical rhythm of the Tabla drew him towards the instrument and he is currently a disciple of Ustaad Akram Khan of Delhi/Ajrara gharana. Akshay was conferred the ‘Ugadhi Purashkar’ award for child prodigies by the Madras Telugu Academy at Chennai, in 2002 and he has competed and won several awards in and outside New Delhi, in inter-school as well as national level competitions such as the AllIndia Competitions of Music and Dance organized each year by the Navya Nataka Academy at Hyderabad. He also has had the honor of performing on Doordarshan, the national television channel of India. Akshay has been giving performances with both Hindustani and Carnatic music artistes for the last several years in India and abroad. Notable performances include percussion ensembles with Shri K.N. Padmanabhan, renowned Mridangam exponent, and Srimati Komala Varadhan, renowned Bharatnatyam danseuse. Akshay has also performed in a series of workshops on ‘Yoga through music’ with Dr. T.V. Sairam, noted musicologist. Akshay had the honor of performing at the Asian music festival held at Kyrgyzstan in 2002. He has also performed in France and Canada in youth exchange programs in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Akshay was featured in the ‘Young Achievers’ column of the ‘The Hindu’ newspaper in India. He has also been described as ‘Tabla Thunder’, with ‘Magic on his fingers’ by regional newspapers. Akshay is currently a student at Boston University, and is pursuing his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.
Date: 12/11/2005
Location: Home of Peter Shapiro, 46 Dunster Rd. #2, Jamaica Plain, MA
Time: 10:30 am
Cost: $10-$15
Contact: 617 522 4015
Directions: Take BU bridge. Stay in center/left lane crossing Comm Ave. and follow as road curves to left, then curves to right, turning into Park Dr. Follow Park Drive across Beacon St. Continue to top of hill and stay to the right, (See Landmark Theatre/Mall on the left), and, staying on right, start down Rte 1 south (also called Jamaicaway/Arborway). Continue for approx 3 miles through approx 5 lights. 5th light is right across from Jamaica Pond. Make Left at light onto Pond St. (See Jamaica Pond and Boathouse on R). Follow Pond St. short distance to Centre St. R onto Centre St. Go 1/2 mile through center of Jamaica Plain to monument, and bear R in front of monument. Go past Elliot St., Holbrook St. and then make R onto Dunster Rd. Go down 2/3rds of 1st block to 46 #2.
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