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* Concert and lecture
demonstration tours
* Individual performances
The Center for the Performing Arts of India has sponsored concerts and lecture-demonstration
tours for the following musicians:


Concert and Lecture Demonstration Tours

Instrumental Music:

1. Hariprasad Churasia (flute)
2. Shivkumar Sharma (santoor)
3. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (slide guitar or Mohan veena)
4. D. K. Datar (violin)
5. Buddhaditya Mukherjee (sitar)
6. Sultan Khan (sarangi)
7. Shahid Parvez (sitar)
8. Buddhadev Das Gupta (sarod)
9. Brij Narayan (sarod)
10. Ashish Khan (sarod)
11. Krishna Bhatt (sitar)
12. Rajib Chakrabarty (sarod)
13. Reena Srivastav (sitar)
14. Nikhil Banejee (sitar)
15. Ronu Majumdar (flute)
16. Shubhendra Rao (sitar)
17. Partho Sarathy (sarod)
18. Kala Ramnath (violin)
19. Rupak Kulkarni (flute)
20. Rakesh Chaurasia (flute)
21. Nandkumar Mulye (santoor)
22. Allyn J. Miner (sitar)
23. Raj Kishore Dal Behra (flute)
24. Y. Rama Rao (violin)
25. Ramesh Mishra (sarangi)
26. Satish Vyas (santoor)
27. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod)
28. Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar)
29. Ken Zuckerman (sarod)

Vocal music:

1. Pandit Jasraj
2. Ajoy Chakravarty
3. Girja Devi
4. Sipra Bose
5. Malinibai Rajurkar
6. Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar
7. Shubha Mudgal
8. Ulhas Kashalkar
9. Sanjeev Abhyankar
10. Rakhal Mohanty
11. Ram Chandra Sahu
12. Rashid Khan
13. Padma Talwalkar
14. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande
15. Uday Bhawalkar
16. Rajan and Sajan Misra

Tabla players:

1. Suresh Talwalkar
2. Shantilal Shah
3. Kedar Pandit
4. Sohanlal Mishra
5. Gobinda Bose
6. Subhash Kamat
7. Mukundraj Deo
8. Vishwanath Shirodkar
9. Bharat Kamat
10. Kousic Sen
11. Fazal Qureshi
12. Mukund Bhale
13. Kalinath Mishra
14. Sukhwinder Singh
15. Anindo Chatterjee
16. Vijay Ghate
17. Sabir Khan
18. Ramdas Palsule
19. Zakir Hussain
20. Subhankar Banerjee
21. Samar Saha
22. Tanmoy Bose
23. Shafaat Ahmed Khan
24. Anand Gopal Bandopadhyay
25. Alla Rakha
26. Abhijit Banerjee
27. Shyam Kane
28. Rajesh Mishra
29. Satyajit Talwalkar
30. Sameer Chatterjee

Pakhawaj and Mirdala Players:

1. Parfulla Mangaraj (pakhawaj)
2. Gangadhar Pradhan (mirdala)
3. Manik Munde (pakhawaj)

Harmonium Players:

1. Kanta Prasad Mishra
2. Arawind Thatte
3. Pramod Marathe
4. Shrikrishna Tikekar
5. Sudhir Nayak
6. Sohanlal Sharma
7. Jyoti Goho
8. Seema Shirodkar
9. Appa Jalgaonkar

South Indian or Karnatic Classical Music:

1. Maharajpuram Santhanam (vocal)
2. Lalgudi Jayaraman (violin)
3. Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan (violin)
4. T. N. Krishnan (violin)
5. Guruvayur Dorai (mridangam)
6. Vellore Ramabhadran (mridangam)
7. Shivraman (mridangam)

Indian Classical Dance:

1. Sharon Lowen (odissi)


Individual Performances

1. Ravi Shankar (sitar)
2. Ali Akbar Khan (sarod)
3. Swapan Chowdhury (tabla)
4. Prbha Atre (vocal)
5. Sikkil Sisters (flute)
6. N. Ramani (flute)
7. Ram Narayan (sarangi)
8. Laxmi Shankar (vocal)
9. Sadanand Nayampalli (tabla)
10. Ratnakar Vyas (sarod)
11. Trichy Shankaran (mridangam)
12. Anjani Ambegaonkar (kathak)

13. Shruti Sadolikar (vocal)
14. T. Vinayakram (ghatam)
15. Ravikiran (gottuvadhyam)
16. Palaghat Raghu (mridangam)
17. Nikhil Banerjee (sitar)
18. K. R. Ganesh (mridangam)
19. A. Ananthkrishnan (violin)
20. Kamala Reddy (kucchipudi)
21. Hridaynath Mangeshkar (light music-vocal)
22. Vempati Chinna Satyam (kucchipudi) and his troupe
23. "Krishnattam" (the Kathakali dance troupe)



For more information about the Center, contact Dr. Balwant N. Dixit, Director, Center for the Performing Arts of India, University of Pittsburgh, 559 Salk Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Phone (412) 963-8023 (res) (412) 648-8582 (office) Fax (412) 648-8475. E-Mail bdixit@pitt.edu


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