Ace composer and performer, Pandit Shubhendra Rao brings together an

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STRINGS UnATTACHED

• Ace composer and performer, Pandit Shubhendra
  Rao brings together an
• array of brilliant international musicians
  to India to perform with him and
• his group.
• Classical Indian Sitar meets traditional
  Chinese instrument Pipa and
• Guitars from the Jazz World from France
  and New York in a pathbreaking
• project to be heard in India for the first
  time.
• The proposal is to have 4 concerts in Delhi,
  Mumbai, Bangalore and
• Kolkata in December of 2009.
• Exciting strings will create a
  never-heard-before symphony of melodies
• and harmonies accompanied by pulsating
  rhythms.

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Pt.Shubhendra Rao
Here is not just a master at the sitar, but a
thinking musician taking his instrument beyond
convention, He has become a musical bridge to
many cultures Gateway Magazine, March 2007
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Pt.Shubhendra Rao

• Hailed by critics connoisseurs
  internationally
• as a worthy successor to his Guru, Pandit
  Ravi
• Shankars tradition .
• Shubhendra Rao creates an experience for his
• audience that ranges from the introspective
  to
• the resounding.
• He was awarded the Youth Icon for Classical
• Music in 2007, by the popular Zee
  Television
• Network.
• He has released many music albums to critical
• acclaim .

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Pt.Shubhendra Rao

• Performed at some of the most prestigious
  venues
• The Carnegie Hall ,BROADWAY in New York,
  Theatre de la ville in Paris,
• the WOMAD festival in Guernsey England
  ,National Arts Festival in
• South Africa, Walker Arts Centre in
  Minneapolis, Des Moines Civic Centre,
• Esplanade in Singapore amongst others .
• At major music festivals in India including the
  DOVERLANE Conference ,
• the ITC Music Conference in Kolkata, Baba
  Harvallabh Sangeet Mahasabha in
• Jullandhar, Shankarlal Festival and the
  Gunidas Sammelan in New Delhi, the
• SAPTAK Festival in Ahmedabad, the
  Vasantahabba Festival in Bangalore.
• International tours have taken him to the USA,
  Canada, South Africa, Mexico,
• Australia, England, Ireland, France,
  Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Italy,
• Portugal, Hungary, Belgium and many Asian
  countries like Japan, South Korea,
• Singapore, Thailand and Dubai

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Pt.Shubhendra Rao

• Well-known as a composer, Shubhendra
  distinguishes himself by working with musicians
  across cultures.
• One of the few Indian musicians to compose and
  perform on
• BROADWAY, New York. He achieved this
  distinction when he was
• commissioned to compose and perform for
  Ragamala Music and Dance
• Theatre, Minneapolis in 2007.
• The new musical language that he has created
  with his Cellist wife,
• Saskia Rao- de Haas titled East Marries
  West is both avant garde
• and traditional at once. This path-breaking
  music has enthralled
• audiences worldwide.
• His innovative work with Jazz Guitarist Freddie
  Bryant and his
• group Kaleidoscope has been received with
  great gusto everywhere.
• He has composed for and collaborated with
  Japanese legendary singer
• Ms.Ryoko Moriyama, Jazz Flautist James
  Newton, Chinese Pipa
• master, Gao Hong amongst others.

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Gao Hong

• A Chinese musical prodigy, master of a
  pear-shaped lute, the Pipa.
• Graduated from China's premier music school, the
  Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
• Her teacher a great Pipa master ,
• Lin Shicheng
• She is the first traditional musician to be
  awarded the prestigious Bush Artist Fellowship
  (2005)
• Only musician to win three McKnight Artist
  Fellowships for Performing Musicians (2008)

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Gao Hong

• Performed in solo concerts, symphony
• orchestras, with jazz musicians, and
  musicians
• from other cultures.
• Performances at the Lincoln Center Festival
• Carnegie Hall the San Francisco Jazz
  festival
• the Next Wave Festival Festival d'Automne
  
• Paris and Caen, France the International
  festival
• of Perth,Australia and the Festival de
  Teatro
• d'Europa in Milan, Italy amongst others

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Gao Hong

• Butterfly -2008,by Gao Hong, pipa, Biplab
  Bhattacharya,
• tabla, Nirmala Rajasekar, veena and vocals,
  and Michelle
• Kinney, cello.
• Celebration 2008, multicultural ensemble
  by Gao Hong,
• pipa, Pt Shubhendra Rao ,Kenny Endo, taiko,
  David Hagedorn,
• percussion, Biplab Bhattacharya, tabla,
  Nirmala Rajasekar,
• veena and vocals, Michelle Kinney, cello .
• Quiet Forest, Flowing Stream by Gao Hong
  and Shubhendra Rao
• Flying Dragon, Pipa mixed very effectively
  with sitarist
• Shubhendra Rao, flutist James Newton and
  shakuhachi player
• Yoshio Kurahashi in a rainbow coalition of
  musicians.

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Nguyen Le

• Born  in  Paris  from Vietnamese  parents, he
• began to play drums at the age of 15,
  then took
• up  guitar electric bass .
• A self-taught musician, Lê plays a custom
  guitar
• made by James Trussard and is a wizard with
• state-of-the-art synthesizer .
• As an accomplished French-Vietnamese guitarist
• he is a creative jazz player who has explored
  
• Americas classical music with traditional
  music.
• .
• Created a band whose CD " DÉ " was
• considered 1989' s best World Music album

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Nguyen Le

• His wide scope of collaborations include
• Rock Funk (Jim Cuomo, Madagascar tour 84)
• Jazz standards contemporary Jazz
• (bass player with Marc Ducret )
• Guitar with Eric Barret, Improvised Music (Yves
  Robert)
• Singers (Ray Charles), Contemporary Music
  (André Almuro,
• Tona Scherchen, Marius Constant, Mauricio
  Kagel)
• Ethnic Music African Caribbean with
  ULTRAMARINE
• Algerian with Safy Boutella Cheb Mami,
• Indian with Kakoli, Turkish with Kudsi Erguner,
  Vietnamese
• with traditional one-stringed instrument)
  teacher Truong Tang.

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Nguyen Le

• His albums
• MIRACLES  1st album, 1989, Dé  with Ultramarine
  
• band ,Zazibar in 92 , Million Waves in 95,
• Tales of Vietnam in 96, Three Trios-Silk
  ,Silver
• Sand   97, Maghreb Friends 98, Bakida
  2000,
• Purple  celebrating Jimi Hendrix 02 ,
  walking on the tiger
• tail in 05 and Homescape in 06.
• Upcoming album SAIYUKI with an Asian trio is to
  be
• released Oct 2009 !!

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Freddie Bryant

• He has been playing the guitar since he
• was 8 years old. His early training was in
• classical guitar, but he soon started jazz
• His musical family experience is perhaps the
• most important aspect of his development as a
  
• musician. Freddie made his debut with his
• parents as page turner in New York's historic
• Town Hall at the age of 6.
• He has received a Masters Degree from the
• Yale School of Music.
• In 1996 he was honored to be featured in the
• New Faces concert series at the Tilles Center
• in Long Island.

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Freddie Bryant

• Over the last 15 years, Freddie has been active
  in New York's jazz
• scene and has performed with Wynton Marsalis,
  Max Roach,
• Lonnie Smith and guitar legend Kenny Burrell.
  
• He has led groups under his own name and with
  pianist Jonny King
• His groups have featured such saxophonists as
  Ralph Moore, David
• Sanchez, Don Braden, Steve Wilson and Vincent
  Herring.
• His groups have featured such saxophonists as
  Ralph Moore,
• David Sanchez, Don Braden, Steve Wilson and
  Vincent Herring.
• Other musicians include trumpeters Randy
  Brecker and Claudio
• Roditi, pianists Kevin Hays and Renee Rosnes,
  among others

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Freddie Bryant

• In 1994, Freddie celebrated the release of his
  first CD in
• Japan Take Your Dance Into Battle.
• His second CD, Brazilian Rosewood was the first
  time that
• he used the classical guitar in a jazz setting
  .
• He has played concerts in schools and churches
  around the
• northeast as well as in the Frank Colleymore
  Hall in
• Barbados and at the Summer Wind Arts Festival
  in
• Oklahoma.
• Four of his jazz compositions will be published
  in the
• forthcoming book, "The Real New Standards."

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Contact Information

• Address
• B- 368 C.R. Park
• New Delhi-110019
• INDIA
• Phone
• 91-(0)11.2627.1165
• 91-98111.90983 (Shubhendra Rao)
• 91-99994.00195 (Ritika Madan)
• E-mail
• sitar_at_shubhendrarao.com
• madan.ritika1_at_gmail.com
• Web
• www.shubhendrarao.com