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ABOUT THE ARTISTS 8 ABOUT THE PROGRAM Drumming crosses cultures and unites us in the dance of the heart. Zakir Hussain is not only the acknowledged master tabla player of that most sophisticated of the world’s musical heritages, the classical North Indian, but also a student of an astonishing array of percussion traditions. Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion, an outgrowth of Zakir’s duet tours with his late father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, began their biennial appearances in 1996 to provide a platform for rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. Over time, the ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions, including jazz, as well as the occasional stringed instrument. 2019 will be the centennial year of Allarakha’s birth, so this will be a very special MOP tour. 2019 will see him joined by the astonishing Niladri Kumar on sitar, the peerless Eric Harland (Charles Lloyd, Sangam) on Western drums, and the Kerala Drummers from the Southwestern coast of India. They will perform together and separately, and it will be awe-inspiring, because they really are Masters (very much including the sitarist!), and Zakir Hussain is a true maestro who can bring out the magic in everyone on the stage–and in the audience. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019, 8PM Segerstrom Center for the Arts | Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall ZAKIR HUSSAIN’S MASTERS OF PERCUSSION ZAKIR HUSSAIN, TABLA NILADRI KUMAR, SITAR ERIC HARLAND, DRUMS MATTANNUR SANKARANKUTTY MARAR AND GROUP: THE DRUMMERS OF KERALA Although rare, all dates, times, artists, programs and prices are subject to change. Photographing or recording this performance without permission is prohibited. Kindly disable pagers, cellular phones and other audible devices. T O N I G H T ’ S P R O G R A M W I L L B E A N N O U N C E D F R O M T H E S T A G E Exclusive Management IMG Artists 7 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019 imgartists.com PART OF THE ECLECTIC ORANGE SERIES SPONSORED BY Judith and Howard Jelinek
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Drumming crosses cultures and unites us inthe dance of the heart. Zakir Hussain is notonly the acknowledged master tabla player ofthat most sophisticated of the world’s musicalheritages, the classical North Indian, but also astudent of an astonishing array of percussiontraditions.
Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion, anoutgrowth of Zakir’s duet tours with his late father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha,began their biennial appearances in 1996 to provide a platform for rarely heard rhythmtraditions from India. Over time, the ensemblehas expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions, including jazz, as well as the occasional stringed instrument. 2019 will be the centennial year of Allarakha’s birth, sothis will be a very special MOP tour.
2019 will see him joined by the astonishingNiladri Kumar on sitar, the peerless Eric Harland (Charles Lloyd, Sangam) onWestern drums, and the Kerala Drummersfrom the Southwestern coast of India.
They will perform together and separately, and it will be awe-inspiring, because they really are Masters (very much including the sitarist!), and Zakir Hussain is a true maestro who can bring out the magic ineveryone on the stage–and in the audience.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019, 8PMSegerstrom Center for the Arts | Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
ZAKIR HUSSAIN’SMASTERS OF PERCUSSION
ZAKIR HUSSAIN, TABLA
NILADRI KUMAR, SITAR
ERIC HARLAND, DRUMS
MATTANNUR SANKARANKUTTY MARAR AND GROUP: THE DRUMMERS OF KERALA
Although rare, all dates, times, artists, programs and prices are subject to change.Photographing or recording this performance without permission is prohibited.
Kindly disable pagers, cellular phones and other audible devices.
TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WILL BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE
Exclusive ManagementIMG Artists
7 West 54th StreetNew York, NY 10019
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SPONSORED BY
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ZAKIR HUSSAIN, TABLA
Zakir Hussain is the pre-eminent classicaltabla virtuoso of our time and is appreciated both in the field of percussionand in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A national treasure in his native India, he is one of the world’s most esteemed and influentialmusicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations, including Shakti, the
Diga Rhythm Band, Planet Drum, Tabla Beat Science, Celtic Connection, Sangamwith Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, in trio with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer and, most recently, with Herbie Hancock.The foremost disciple of his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, Zakir was a child prodigy who began his professionalcareer at the age of twelve, accompanyingIndia’s greatest classical musicians anddancers, and touring internationally withgreat success by the age of eighteen.
ZAKIR HUSSAIN (PAUL JOSEPH)
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As a composer, he has scored music for numerous feature films and major events and has composed three concertos.The most recent enjoys the distinction ofbeing the first-ever concerto for tabla and orchestra and was premiered in India in September 2015, in Europe and the UK in 2016, and in the United States in April 2017 by the National SymphonyOrchestra at Kennedy Center. A multipleGrammy Award-winner, he is the recipient of countless awards and honors, includingPadma Bhushan, National HeritageFellowship and Officier in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. In 2015, he was voted “Best Percussionist” by both the DownBeat Critics’ Poll and Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll. He hastaught at Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is the founder and president of Moment! Records, an independent recordlabel presenting rare live concert recordingsof Indian classical music and world music. Zakir was resident artistic director at SFJazz from 2013 until 2016, and was presented with their Lifetime AchievementAward in 2017 in recognition of his “unparalleled contribution to the world ofmusic.”
NILADRI KUMAR, SITAR
Blessed with a lineage of five generations ofsitar players, Niladri Kumar is a worldrenowned and global icon to reckon with.Under the guidance and numerous years oftraining from his father and guru Pandit
Kartick Kumar, Niladri, after gaining an in-depth, profound, and sound understanding of Indian classical music, went on to revolutionize the style of sitar playing and further invent his own instrument, the red electric sitar, which he coined as the zitar. He is hailed as one of the serious exponents of Indianmusic and has an uncanny, prodigious style in making this music appealing to the youth and the masses at large. Critics state that he has an unmatchable,effortless mastery over the instrument, and it is indeed a unique treat to witness his swift, agile, and magical fingers produce
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soul stirring, brilliant compositions. He has inspired many to learn the sitar, andthrough his illustrious career has emerged as a one of a kind cause for national pride. He has been bestowed and recognized with several prestigious awards, valued titles,has released over ten albums. In addition,Niladri has contributed immensely to theIndian film industry. His live performancesare known to transpose audiences to anotherworld.
ERIC HARLAND, DRUMS
Eric Harland is the most “in demand” drummer of his generation, primarily but notexclusively in the world of jazz. He hasworked on more than 400 recordings and film scores. He has shared the stage with masters on the order of Betty Carter,Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, MichaelBrecker, Terence Blanchard, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter,Savion Glover, and the SFJazz Collective.He’s also played with virtually all the current rising stars, including EsperanzaSpalding, Jane Monheit, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Stacie Orrico, and RobertGlasper. He currently works in multiplegroups, including James Farm with Joshua Redman, Prism with Dave Hollandand Kevin Eubanks, Sangam with CharlesLloyd and Zakir Hussain, Overtone with Dave Holland, Jason Moran, and Chris Potter, and his own Voyager. Outside jazz, he’s also collaborated with Les Claypool’s Primus, John Mayer, Mariah Carey, Steve Miller, and Spike Lee.Eric was the Resident Artistic Director
at the SFJazz Center for the 2014-16 seasons and the Artist in Residence at the Monterey Jazz Festival of 2014.
After all his extensive travels, he has come to realize that “The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a processof creation.” That depth of understandingmakes him a perfect member of Masters of Percussion.
ERIC HARLAND (ALAN MESSER)
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MATTANNUR SANKARANKUTTYMARAR AND GROUP: THE DRUMMERS OF KERALA
In the Indian tradition, Mattannur’s firstteacher was his father, and from an early age he began his studies of Thayambaka, a call-and-response style of drumming using the South Indian chenda, a cylindricalinstrument. This art is often associated with the story-play style of Kathakali, a classical South Indian dance form. Eventually, Mattannur was assigned the role of “Mela Pramani,” and performed it in temple festivals across Southern India. Induet form, he has played with such greats as Ustad Allarakha and Padmashree
Umayalpuaram Sivaraman. He was awardedthe Padma Shri by the President of India in 2009.
The group includes Mattannur’s sons V. M. Sreekanth and V. M. Sreeraj, and their fellow Keralan Vellinezhi Anand.All three have progressed through life-timetraining in Thayambaka and temple rituals,and have played with outstanding Indianartists including the legendary vocalistHariharan, both in India and all over the world, from Europe to Hong Kong and most stops in between.
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