Saturday, October 13
Doors / Lobby Bar at 6:30pm, Show at 7:30pm
The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts – 3 Spruce Street, NY, NY
Tickets: Gold Circle Center Orchestra: $55, Orchestra: $40, Balcony Center: $40, Balcony: $30
File Under: Global, India, Jazz

Key Points For Your Consideration:

· Considered by many to be the world’s foremost player of tabla percussion, Zakir Hussain is “a fearsome technician (and) a whimsical inventor… the blur of his fingers rivals the beat of a hummingbird’s wings.” (Chinen, NYT).

· Tonight’s duet show marks the first one-on-one concert between Hussain and bansuri flute prodigy Rakesh Chaurasia, a blood relative of the legendary Hariprasad Chaurasia.

· Hussain’s long history of mentorship extends to many of the princes and princesses of Indian musical royalty, including Rahul Sharma (son of Shivkumar Sharma), Aashish Khan (son of Ali Akbar Khan), Shujaat Khan (son of Vilayat Khan) and Anoushka Shankar (daughter of Ravi Shankar).

· Both Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia are available for interviews in person, over the phone or via email. High resolution images of the artists are available on request.

Biography:

Tabla superstar Zakir Hussain, India’s most celebrated living artist and an extraordinary percussionist of international renown will be joined for this evening of Indian classical music by bansuri flute prodigy Rakesh Chaurasia, a nephew of maestro Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. The New York Times calls Hussain “(a) fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor, so devoted to exuberant play that he rarely seems overbearing, even when the blur of his fingers rivals the beat of a hummingbird’s wings”. Widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest percussionists, Zakir is known equally for his mastery of the classical Hindustani repertoire of ragas and his historic collaborations with Shakti (with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar), Planet Drum (with the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart) and performances with George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders, Tabla Beat Science, Mark Morris and many others.

Artist Website:
http://www.zakirhussain.com/

http://www.rakeshchaurasia.com/

For more info, please visit

http://www.pace.edu/schimmel/zakir-hussain-and-rakesh-chaurasia?utm_source=Zakir+Hussain+%232&utm_campaign=Zakir+Hussain+%232&utm_medium=email.