Welcome to the Asian Music Circuit’s Summer/Autumn Programme 2010 Calendar of events Sunday 11 July / CONCERT Desert Romance: Folk Music and Dance from Rajasthan Mouth of The Tyne Festival, Bents Park, South Shields NE33 2LD Wednesday 14 July Kurdish music and the daf A talk and recital with Hussein Zahawy 6.30pm, Asian Music Centre 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP Saturday 17 July / CONCERT Desert Romance: Folk Music and Dance from Rajasthan From 12.00pm, Southampton Mela Hoglands Park, SO14 1NH Sunday 18 July / CONCERT Desert Romance: Folk Music and Dance from Rajasthan 1.00pm, Nottingham Mela Arboretum Park, Waverley Street, Nottingham, NG1 4 Saturday 24 July–30 July Summer School, Pts Rajan/Sajan Misra, Khyal, Uday Bhawalkar, Dhrupad and Sunanda Sharma, Thumri Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT 020 8742 9911, www.amc.org.uk Saturday 24 July–28 July Summer School, Liz Walters, Taiko and Dai Xiaolian, Guqin Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT 020 8742 9911, www.amc.org.uk Sunday 25 July / CONCERT Rajasthani Folk Music and Shehnai Ensemble Ingolstadt, Germany
Sunday 25 July–28 July Summer School, Zhu Xiaomeng, Guzheng and Dr. Ayako-Hotta Lister, Koto Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT 020 8742 9911, www.amc.org.uk Monday 26 July / CONCERT Summer School Seminar: Music & Nature 5.30pm, £5, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT 020 8742 9911, www.amc.org.uk Monday 26 July / CONCERT The Kamkars, An Evening of Kurdish and Persian Music 7.30pm, £15, £20, £25, £30, £35 Barbican, Silk Street London, EC2Y 8DS 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk Tuesday 27 July In Memory of Bireshwar Kumar Pal (Gautam), Seminar 5.30pm, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT 020 8742 9911, www.amc.org.uk Tuesday 27 July / CONCERT Desert Romance: Folk Music and Dance from Rajasthan 7.30pm, £10 Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place Edinburgh, EH8 9SU 0131 629 0039, www.roxyarthouse.org Thursday 29 July / CONCERT Sounds of Asia: Folk Music from Rajasthan & Taiko Drumming 7.45pm, £12 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk Friday 30 July / CONCERT Sounds of Asia: Satish Prakash Qamar and his Shehnai Ensemble & Chinese and Japanese Strings 7.45pm, £12 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Saturday 31 July / CONCERT Sounds of Asia: Indian Classical Music – Double Bill Concert Uday Bhawalkar (Dhrupad) & Sunanda Sharma (Thumri) 7.45pm, £12 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk Sunday 1 August / CONCERT Sounds of Asia: Indian Classical Music Pts. Rajan and Sajan Misra (Khyal) 7.45pm, £12 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk Sunday 1 August / CONCERT Croydon Mela Kiranpal Singh on santoor: Amina Khayyam – kathak; Tarun Jasani on sarod; Shabaz Husain and Prakash – tabla and mridangam duet; Swati Natekar and musicians. 1.30pm till 6.30pm, Lloyd Park, Coombe, Croydon, CRO 5RD Saturday 18 September / CONCERT Music from Herat 8.00pm, £12 and £8 Northern Rock Foundation Hall, The Sage Gateshead, St. Mary’s Square, Gateshead, NE8 2JR 01914434661, www.thesagegateshead.org Monday 20 September / CONCERT Music from Herat 7.30pm, £16 St. Ives Arts Club, St.Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DY 01736794477/ 01736796297 www.stivesartsclub.org 20 September- end of October Fakiri Bauls of Bengal Wednesday 22 September Lecture on Music from Herat by Prof. John Baily with screening of “Annual Cycle” 6.30pm, £3 Asian Music Centre 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP 020 8749 9584, www.amc.org.uk
Wednesday 22 September / CONCERT Music from Herat 8.00pm, £12 St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, off Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR 0845 40 24 001, www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk Thursday 23 September Lecture by Dr. Moya Carey “Painting for Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Art in Late Timurid Herat” 6.30pm, £3 Asian Music Centre 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP 020 8749 9584, www.amc.org.uk Thursday 24 September / CONCERT Music from Herat 7.30pm, £10 Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place Edinburgh, EH8 9SU 0131 629 0039, www.roxyarthouse.org Friday 24 September Afghan Tales: A Storytelling Event 3.00pm and again 7.00pm, £5 Asian Music Centre 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP 020 8749 9584, www.amc.org.uk Saturday 25 September / CONCERT Tagore Centre 25th Anniversary Featuring the Fakiri Bauls from Bengal The Scoop, London 020 84446751 Sunday 26 September / CONCERT Music from Herat 8.00pm The Tricycle Theatre 269 Kilburn Road, London, NW6 7JR 020 73281000, www.tricycle.co.uk 27 September / CONCERT Roses and Nightingales The Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP 020 7589 8212, www.royalalberthall.com 24 October Roses and Nightingales Musicport
The Asian Music Circuit Museum
Friday 15 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh Centro d’Arte, Padua, Italy Sunday 17 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh Uppsala Konsert & Kongress Roslagsgatan 8, SE-753 75 Uppsala, Sweden Tuesday 19 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh Theatro Circo de Braga Av. da Liberdade, 697, 4710-251 Braga, Portugal Friday 22 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh Muziekcentrum Frits Philips Postbus 930, 5600 AX Eindhoven, Netherlands Saturday 23 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh Porgy & Bess, Jazz & Music club, A 1010 Vienna, Riemergasse 11, Austria Sunday 24 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin, Germany Thursday 28 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh 8.00pm, St.Georges, Bristol 0845 402 4001, www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk Friday 29 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh 8.00pm, An Tain Theatre Dundalk Louth Ireland 0818 205 205, UK 0870 850 2896 www.centralticketbureau.com
Saturday 30 October / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh 8.00pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast, BT7 1NF as part of The Ulster Bank Belfast at Queen’s 028 9097 11 97, www.belfastfestival.com Tuesday 2 November / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks , Talvin Singh 8.00pm, Turner Sims, Southampton, SO17 1BJ 023 8059 5151, www.turnersims.co.uk Wednesday 3 November / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks, Talvin Singh 7.30pm, Hall One, Kings Place, London, N1 9AG as part of the London International Festival of Exploratory Music 020 7520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk Friday 5 November / CONCERT The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks , Talvin Singh 7.30pm, RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester, M13 9RD 0161 907 5555, www.rncm.ac.uk Programme subject to change without notice. The Asian Music Circuit has set national benchmarks for excellence and high standards in the presentation of Asian Music for more than 19 years. The AMC aims to connect the future with the past – to bring the next generation of listeners and performers close to the beauty and diversity of endangered traditions of music from Asia.The AMC produces exciting tours and concerts nationally alongside a year round education programme, including a Summer and Winter School and now its multi-media Asian Music Museum, the first of its kind in the UK.
The Museum is open during the week from 10.00am to 5.00pm and in the evenings and on week-ends only for AMC events or on special pre-arranged events. Entry is free but visitors are invited to leave a donation. We suggest you telephone the AMC in advance to ensure we are present to open the door and let you in: 020 742 9911. Located in the London Borough of Ealing, the Asian Music Circuit Museum is UK’s first multimedia resource and education centre for Asian music which houses a unique museum of musical instruments and an interactive ‘Sensor Room’, the VIRTUAL GURU™, the soon to be launched DIGIGURU™, a wonderful archive of audio-visual material. The Museum also has a recital room where we hold music and dance workshops and seminars, show videos and organise recitals with visiting and local Asian musicians. Finally it’s actually very easy to reach the museum: by car from Central London it’s a 15–20 minutes drive; by train the overland to Acton Central brings you to within 5mins walk from the museum; there are numerous buses from Shepherds Bush or Ealing within a minutes walk away! An invitation to schools and recreation centres
The AMC supports the provision of Asian music in schools. Learning about traditional Asian music increases the children’s geographical and historical understanding, brings out their curiosity about who they are, where they come from and how diverse our world is. There is something for everyone!
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Rajasthani folk music is perhaps the finest folk music in the world, rich in its diversity, exciting and vibrant in rhythm and beautiful in melody. Not only are the artists extraordinary and wonderful to look at, but they are powerful musicians whose lyrics tell of love, separation, heroism, patriotism, respect for nature, marriages, birth and death and every aspect of life and human expression. Sunday 11 July Mouth of The Tyne Festival, Bents Park, South Shields NE33 2LD Saturday 17 July from 12.00pm, free Southampton Mela, Hoglands Park, SO14 1NH
Desert Romance Folk Music and Dance from Rajasthan
Sunday 18 July, 1.00pm Nottingham Mela, Arboretum Park, Waverley Street, Nottingham, NG1 4 Sunday 25 July Ingolstadt – Germany School workshops available from 12–16 July
Tuesday 27 July, 7.30pm, £10 Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place Edinburgh, EH8 9SU 0131 629 0039, www.roxyarthouse.org Thursday 29 July, 7.45pm, £12 Sounds of Asia: Folk Music from Rajasthan & Taiko Drumming Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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Sounds of Asia series of concerts
This summer, there is no need to travel far from London to enjoy a festival of music from the world! Sounds of Asia brings you the best of Indian, Chinese and Japanese folk and classical music in a four day kermesse.
Sounds of Asia: Vibrant Folk Music from Rajasthan & Taiko Drumming (double bill) Showcasing Asian Music Circuit’s Summer School teacher, Liz Walters on Taiko Drumming and a folk group from Rajasthan, this concert will put an emphasis on traditional music at festivals and drums. Both performances are very high energy! Thursday 29 July 7.45pm, £12 (£6) Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Sounds of Asia: Satish Prakash Qamar and his Shehnai Ensemble & Chinese and Japanese Strings (double bill) From devotional music in temples, to uplift spirits in battlefields, keeping the eight watches of the day in palaces, celebrating weddings to classical music of the concert stage – the beautiful and versatile Shehnai cannot fail to impress, especially in the hands of a master of the calibre of Satish Prakash Qamar. Satish trained in the vocal tradition under the great singers of the Delhi Gharana, Ustad Chand Khan and Ustad Nasir Ahmed Khan. He learned the shehnai from his father and brother but also took inspiration from the doyen of shehnai players Ustad Bismillah Khan. The Shehnai Ensemble will be followed by a performance of plucked stringed Instruments from both China and Japan,
Sounds of Asia: Indian Classical MusicDouble Bill Concert Uday Bhawalkar (Dhrupad) & Sunanda Sharma (Thumri) ‘Uday displayed the enormous versatility the dhrupad is capable of, when text, raga and imagination merge into one. ‘Uday’s voice is strong, young and charged with fervour and power.’ Hindustan Times, New Delhi. Accompanied by Manike Munde on Pakhawaj, known for his tremendous musicality and sensitive accompaniment.
Indian Classical Music concert Pts. Rajan and Sajan Misra (Khyal) The legendary Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra represent the Varanasi tradition of music and are considered among the foremost singers in India today. They are recognised for their intonation, virtuosity and imagination and always produce performances of great innovation and vibrancy. Sunday 1 August, 7.45pm, £12 (£6) Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
The ARCC Classical Tent at Croydon Mela Sunday 1 August 1.30pm till 6.30pm, free Lloyd Park, Coombe, Croydon, CRO 5RD With the participation of: Amina Khayyam (kathak dancer) + accompanists Tarun Jasani (sarod) + accompanist Shabaz Hussain and Prakash (percussion duet) Kiranpal Singh (santoor) + accompanist Swati Natekar and her accompanists For more details visit www.croydonsummerfestival.org
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Sounds of Asia:
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Saturday 31 July, 7.45pm, £12 (£6) Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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Friday 30 July, 7.45pm, £12 (£6) Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1 8XX 08716632500, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
The acclaimed Sunanda Sharma student of legendary Girija Devi will also be singing Thumri accompanied by Hanif Khan on tabla and Fida Khan on harmonium.
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with the inspiring and beautiful notes of Dr. Ayako Hotta-Lister on koto, Zhu Xiaomeng on guzheng, Cheng Yu on pipa and Dai Xiaolian on guqin. These fine artists take the audience into a different realm of aesthetic experience also of ancient traditions.
The Kamkars are widely recognised as one of the leading musical ensembles in Iran today. A Kurdish family of seven brothers and a sister, they are increasingly joined by the younger generation, sons and daughters who regularly play alongside their parents.
The Kamkars An evening of Kurdish and Persian Music The music of the Kamkars is quite simply unique. Whether they play the entrancing melodies of Persia or the exuberant joyful rhythms of a Kurdish dance, their music seems to encompass every shade of emotional and spiritual experience. Monday 26 July, 7.30pm £15, £20, £25, £30, £35, The Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS 020 7638 8891 www.barbican.org.uk
CONCERTS The Asian Music Circuit is delighted to host the first UK festival of Herati music and culture from Afghanistan. The festival aims to open a door onto the multifaceted and very rich Afghan heritage and bridge the gap in the knowledge and understanding of a country which is too often only associated with conflict, poverty and the Talibans. As an important trading centre, Herat has continuously absorbed new ideas and influences from Iran and India. There is a long history of artistic development amongst a people whose culture brings them close to music, poetry, visual art, gardens, birdsong and the love of nature. Even during the time of the Taliban ban on music-making of the late 1990s Herati people were defiant, taking great risks to gather in secret places to make music, saying they could not live without this fundamental aspect to life. Beautiful instruments like to RUBAB accompany the various styles of vocal music including Kabuli ghazal and folk songs.
Music from Herat The musicians will perform a mixture of Herati vocal and instrumental music, along with the Afghan classical music that has been performed in Herat since the 1930s. Nasim Rahim Khushnawaz, Afghan rubab; Ustad Gada Mohammad, Herati dutar; Naimatullah, Herati vocal; Muhammad Aziz, classical vocal and harmonium; Yusuf Mahmoud, tabla; And female vocalist Mina Amani Saturday 18 September, 8.00pm, £12 and £8 Northern Rock Foundation Hall, The Sage Gateshead, St. Mary’s Square, Gateshead, NE8 2JR 01914434661, www.thesagegateshead.org
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Monday 20 September, 7.30pm, £16 St. Ives Arts Club, St.Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DY 01736794477/ 01736796297 www.stivesartsclub.org Wednesday 22 September, 8.00pm, £12 St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, off Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR 0845 40 24 001, www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm, £10 Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place Edinburgh, EH8 9SU 0131 629 0039, www.roxyarthouse.org Sunday, 26 September, 8.00pm The Tricycle Theatre 269 Kilburn Road, London, NW6 7JR 020 73281000, www.tricycle.co.uk
Lectures and other events Wednesday 22 September, 6.30pm, £3 Lecture on Music from Herat by Prof. John Baily with the screening of “Annual Cycle” Asian Music Centre 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP 020 8749 9584, www.amc.org.uk John Baily became a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology, Queen’s University of Belfast, and in collaboration with John Blacking conducted two years of ethno musicological fieldwork in Afghanistan. In 1978 he was appointed Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Queen’s. From 1984–86 he trained in anthropological film making at the National Film and Television School. From 1988–1990 he was Associate Professor in the Centre for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, New York. He joined Goldsmiths in 1990, and is now Professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of the Afghanistan Music Unit. Thursday 23 September, 6.30pm, £3 Lecture by Dr. Moya Carey “Painting for Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Art in Late Timurid Heart” Asian Music Centre 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP 020 8749 9584, www.amc.org.uk Dr Carey is the Iran Heritage Foundation Curator for the Iranian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She earned her doctorate from SOAS, University of London in 2001. She has worked with important Iranian collections, including the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection in Geneva, the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and the British Museum in London; she has also taught at university level at Aga Khan University, SOAS, and at the Sotheby’s Institute and Birkbeck College.
Afghan Tales In partnership with Afghan Action and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Follow the Afghan Tales to the emerald pastures, snow-capped Pamirs and arid valleys of Afghanistan, a land of teaming bazaars and palaces inhabited by greedy kings, clever princesses, rhobab players, viziers vying for power and jinn fairies. Join us for stories of zar, zan and Zamin – gold, women and land – as well as luck and intelligence, romance and magic, buried treasure, talking lions and the mythical Simurgh bird. Drawing on Afghanistan’s rich oral heritage, Afghan Tales introduces the customs, religions and cultures – both ancient and modern – that make up this fascinating and much-misunderstood country. The readings will take place in a traditional Afghan yurt and accompanied by traditional music. This interactive event will be followed by a puppet-making workshop. Suitable for ages 5+ Friday 24 September, 3.00pm and again 7.00pm, £5 Afghan Tales: A Storytelling Event Asian Music Centre (or nearby park, please check our website for details) 1–2, Bradford Road, London, W3 7SP 020 8749 9584, www.amc.org.uk
Roses and Nightingales With John Baily, dutar and rubbab Veronica Doubleday, vocal and daireh (frame drum) Ustad Arif Mahmoud-Chisti, tabla drums Jan Hendrickse, flute The people of Afghanistan have a deep understanding and love of birdsong. They know that some birds are stimulated to sing by hearing music and the sound of birdsong added to the sound of music is for many Afghans the acme of musical enjoyment. Ustad Arif is a master tabla player from one of the principal musician families of Kabul. Veronica and John Baily have been performing Afghan music since the 1970s, when they were students of some of Herat’s leading musicians. Veronica sings Herati folk and popular songs, accompanying herself on the frame drum (daireh), while John plays the rubab and Herat dutar (Afghan lutes). They are joined by Jan Hendrickse, flutes and Iranian ney. This programme consists of a mixture of traditional Afghan folk and classical music. The highlight of their performance will be an interaction between Ustad Arif and a recording of nightingale song in which he explores in terms of drumming mnemonics and tabla playing. Look out for the live canary!
Launch of Rough Guide to the Music of Afghanistan In a pioneering release in World Music Network’s Rough Guide series, this Afghan CD is the first compilation covering the broader music scene in this troubled land. Covering popular music, classical and folk, it provides an attractive and informed overview of Afghan music, both in Afghanistan and in exile. Compiled by Simon Broughton – who directed Breaking the Silence, a BBC documentary on the return of music after the fall of the Taliban, the CD includes a variety of genres and musicians, from popular Afghan singers, and contemporary rubab masters to Sufi music. In a country where the Taliban banned music altogether for over five years, this CD shows the musical riches at the crossroads of Asia. The Asian Music Circuit would like to bring to your attention The Great Game, Afghanistan a series of plays and films that will run through July and August, organised by the Tricycle Theatre (www.tricycle.co.uk).
27 September The Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP 020 7589 8212, www.royalalberthall.com
24 October Musicport
Look out for additional events in this festival!
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California Kirana The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath with Terry Riley, George Brooks , Talvin Singh In celebration of Terry Riley’s 75th birthday, the Asian Music Circuit are honoured to tour the world famous musician as he performs Indian ragas with arrangements on the saxophone played by the ever progressive saxophonist George Brooks and Mercury Music awarded tabla player and multiinstrumentalist Talvin Singh.
Music, like all living beings, must evolve to keep pace with a changing environment. The ancient arts of India struggle for survival in a world moving at an every increasing speed. Technology and desire for wealth move us forward and leave little time for the reflection and introspection necessary to understand and imbibe the highly sophisticated music embodied in the concept of “raga”. Pran Nath’s music was rooted in the masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a young man he survived a harrowing journey during partition from Lahore to the new nation of India and later to the US where his most dedicated students absorbed his teachings and continue to reflect on them in deeply personal forms of artistic expression. Terry Riley, George Brooks and Talvin Singh will perform traditional ragas arranged for piano, voice, saxophone and percussion, focusing on some of Pran Nath’s favorite ragas from the Kirana tradition such as Darbari, Bageshri, Malkauns, Yaman and Bhimpalasi. In addition they will perform works from their duo repertoire including movements from “Salome Dances for Peace” and “Ebony Horns”. Friday 15 October Teatro MPX, Padua, Italy Sunday 17 October Uppsala Konsert & Kongress Roslagsgatan 8 SE-753 75 Uppsala, Sweden Tuesday 19 October Theatro Circo de Braga Av. da Liberdade, 697 4710-251 Braga, Portugal Friday 22 October Muziekcentrum Frits Philips Postbus 930 5600 AX Eindhoven – Netherlands Saturday 23 October Porgy & Bess, Jazz & Music club, A 1010 Vienna, Riemergasse 11, Austria Sunday 24 October Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin, Germany In association with Red Orange Arts Agency.
Thursday 28 October, 8.00pm St.Georges, Bristol 0845 402 4001, www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk Friday 29 October, 8.00pm An Tain theatre Dundalk Louth, Ireland Ireland 0818 205 205, UK 0870 850 2896 www.centralticketbureau.com Saturday 30 October, 8.00pm Elmwood Hall, Belfast, BT7 1NF as part of The Ulster Bank Belfast at Queen’s 028 9097 11 97, www.belfastfestival.com Tuesday 2 November, 8.00pm Turner Sims, Southampton, SO17 1BJ 023 8059 5151, www.turnersims.co.uk Wednesday 3 November, 7.30pm Hall One, Kings Place, London, N1 9AG as part of the London International Festival of Exploratory Music 020 7520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk Friday 5 November, 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester, M13 9RD 0161 907 5555, www.rncm.ac.uk Not all the tickets are on sale yet, please check the websites.
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FAKIRI BAULS OF BENGAL
Arjun Kyapa, Akkas Fakir, Babu Fakir, Mohan Patra, Shibsankar Kalindi, Mahadev Roy are the forbearers of an unorthodox devotional tradition of Bengal which carries influences of the Hindu Bhakti movements and Sufi Islam. These mystic singers sing about humanism and brotherhood and the celebration of life and nature. Come and enjoy their beautiful and thought provoking songs which transcend linguistic barriers and listen to the beats of Khol and Gubgubi, strumming of Ektara and Dotara. This event is part of a larger tour funded by the European Union. End of September- October
The Chhau Dancers
The Chhau Dancers perform traditional dances that have been passed down from generation to generation, from ustad (master) to disciple. Chhau is the ‘masked dance of Rarh’ an ancient kingdom comprising West Bengal and the border lands of Jharkhand and Bihar. This region is an area of rich indigenous culture and Chhau is one of the oldest masked dances in the world. End of October- end of November
hospital arts
1.30pm–1.45pm, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH
The Asian Music Circuit has been working with Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity to deliver regular music educational workshops and recitals in Chelsea and Westminster hospital. Hospital Arts, part of Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity, aims to create a healing environment where the visual and performing arts are combined to help relieve anxiety and assist in recovery. As part of the performing arts programme, weekly lunchtime performances are held in the wards and clinics of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and also in the ground floor atrium. The eclectic programme provides staff, patients and visitors with a variety of enjoyable music and performing arts from different cultures. The unique location of the performance space on the ground floor of the building means that music resonates through public areas and can also be heard in the surrounding wards. Performances are free and open to all. Thursday 17 June, 1.00pm Rodrigo Montoya (Shamisen) & Luo Chao-Yun (Pipa) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, lobby, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH
Thursday 16 September, 1.00pm Cheng Ying-Chaung (Pipa) & Qui Zenghui (Erhu) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, lobby, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH
Thursday 15 July, 1.00pm Ji Eun Jung (Korean Kayagum) & Sungmin (Guitar) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, lobby, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH
An additional performance will take place at the Royal London Hospital, in the outpatient department.
Wednesday 28 July, 1.00pm Manju Gregory (Indian Shadow Puppetry) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, lobby, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH Thursday 19 August, 1.00pm Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth & Accompanist (Violin and Carnatic music) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, lobby, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH
Monday 14 June, 12.30pm Hospital Arts, part of the Royal London Hospital charity ‘Vital Arts’. Ji Eun Jung (Korean Kayagum) The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB
‘Sounds of Asia’ Summer School 2010
24 July – 30 july Music and Nature
This year the summer school will be held at the Royal Academy of Music from Saturday 24th July – Friday 30th July 2010. As part of the annual summer school there will also be a wonderful series of concerts and seminars held at the Southbank Centre which will be open to the public. Please refer to the AMC Spring and Summer brochure for more details, visit www.amc.org.uk or contact Jasel Nandha at 020 8742 9911.
Courses Indian Music: This 7 day summer school offers expert tuition in three principle vocal genres of Khyal, Dhrupad and Thumri. Chinese Music: The Chinese music summer school will be held for 4–5 days depending upon the course. Our Chinese summer school offers expert tuition and master classes on the Guqin and Guzheng. Japanese Music: The Japanese music summer school offers expert tuition in Koto and Taiko drumming. This year the Taiko course is designed for beginners or those with limited experience in Taiko drumming.
Seminars £5 (Free to all Summer School participants) Monday 26 July, 17.30–18.30 Music and Nature The Summer School teachers express their views on the theme of music and nature. Tuesday 27 July, 17.30–19.00 (Free) ‘In memory of Bireshwar Kumar Pal (Gautam) – (1962–2009)’ The AMC wishes to commemorate the wonderful and unique the late Bireshwar Gautam with the participation of his students. The AMC was privileged to have Bireshwar perform the lead part in The Dying Song in 2008 and above all teach in our annual summer school for two years. His rendition of thumri was incredible – and coupled with this his rendition of bhav and Abhinaya was brilliant. His good nature, his sense of humor and above all his dedication to an art which he had become a master of, will be missed by all who knew him and audiences everywhere who saw him perform. Please come and join us to commemorate and celebrate a trusted friend, great musician and dedicated teacher. The commemoration will include a recital by Biru’s students and the projection of a film by the AMC with testimonials by friends and artists. All seminars will be held at: Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, Telephone +44 (0) 20 7873 7373