Mahima Upadhyay on Pakhawaj and Savani Talwalkar on tabla
Performing at Kaushiki Chakrabarty’s Sakhi - MERU Concert, Theater Hall Oranjerie, 1 August 2015, The Netherlands.
Savani Talwalkar - Tabla
Savani belongs to a family which has a great background of Indian Classical music. At a very young age, her illustrious father Taalyogi Pandit Suresh Talwalkar as well her mother Pt. Smt. Padma Talwalkar who is a well-known Classical Vocalist of Jaipur Atraoli Tradition, initiated her into the rhythms of Tabla. She has performed as a soloist in India & abroad.
Recipient of the ‘Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar’ by Sangeet Natak Akademy. Savani is blessed with a very good sense of rhythm and performs in various rhythm cycles.
Mahima Upadhyay - Pakhawaj
Fondly known as ‘The Pakhawaj Princess’, she carries a 400 year old legacy of Pakhawaj lineage. Mahima has received an intense and fine training under the tutelage of her father, the great Pakhawaj Maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar Upadhyay.
A gold medalist with the award from the President of India and a national scholarship recipient, she has performed extensively all over India and enthralled music connoisseurs.
Mahima is the first female Pakhawaj player in her own traditional family and the state of Bihar.
SAKHI is an initiative by Kaushiki Chakarbarty. She is the leading female vocalist in Indian classical music and the most deserving inheritor and torch bearer of Patiala tradition.
Kaushiki brings together India’s first ever all-ladies ensemble and harnesses the creative energies of contemporary India’s best young talents representing all streams of the Vedic heritage of Indian classical art.
16 фев 2016
