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Shri Warren Senders / Hindustani Vocal
Shri Warren Senders
with
Shri Nitin Mitta on the Tabla
and
Dr. George Ruckert on the Harmoniumon
Warren Senders
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 gharana's 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.
He has received grants and fellowships including the Indo-American Fellowship, the Jon B. Higgins Memorial Scholarship for Indian Music, a Senior Research Fellowship and a Performing Arts Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, support for music composition from Meet the Composer, and travel awards from the Fund for U.S. Artists. A prolific contributor to the USENET group rec.music.indian.classical, his writings on music has been published by Rhythm Magazine, Bansuri, the New England Conservatory Journal for Learning Through Music, and World Rhythm. Also a jazz musician, he has released two CDs of his own original instrumental music recorded by an ensemble of Indian musicians under his direction, and is a core member of Boston's Jazz Composers' Alliance.
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.
George Ruckert
A performer, composer, arranger, author and teacher, George Ruckert is a rare breed of artists who has an 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, George 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.
Nitin Mitta
A young and promising tabla artiste from India, Nitin received his training in Tabla from late Pt. G. Satyanarayana and subsequently, from Pt. Arvind Mulgaonkar of Mumbai, both disciples of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan of Farukhabad Gharana. Nitin has accompanied many eminent musicians of Indian classical music including Padmavibhushan Pandit Jasraj, Pt. Rajan and Sajan Mishra, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Pt. Ullhas Bapat, Pt. Nayan Ghosh, Pt. M Janardan, Shri Sanjeev Abhyankar, and Smt. Sumitra Guha.
Date: 05/09/2004
Location: Learnquest Academy of Music
108 Elm Street, Suite 2, Waltham, MA
Time: 10:00 am
Cost: Regular - $12, Students - $10
Contact: 978.264.4566
Web: www.learnquest.org
Directions: From the North: Take rt. 128/I-95 south, take exit 27A for Totten Pond Road, drive all the way to a T-junction, take a right and bear left onto Lexington St., drive until the next T-junction and take left onto Main St., take immediate right onto Elm St. Go through a traffic light and bear right. LearnQuest is on your left opposite the Car Wash.
From the South: Take rt. 128/I-95 north, take exit 26 for Waltham and rt 20 East. Follow rt 20/Main St. to center of Waltham. Go past the intersection with Moody St. and take the next right on to Elm St. Go through the next traffic light and bear right. LearnQuest is on your left opposite the Car Wash.
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