The Capital City Minstrels UK Tour – With Love, From India (June 1-15, 2018)
We were performing the last song for the evening to a packed hall at St. Mary’s Church in Haddington (Scotland)....
THE PRACTICE TIP YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR
Many musicians spend their early years of training – and maybe some of the later years – fighting a cold,...
Trivandrum Academy of Western Music launches in August 2018!
Five music lovers (Satish Kamath, Hari Gopinathan, Jelaja Kumari, Mohammed Bashir and Raju Harilal) have come together to start a world-class Academy for Western instruments and Vocal skills development in Trivandrum, India, called Trivandrum Academy for Western Music (TAWM). Their...
Good Practice Techniques for Graded Examinations – PART III
Parts 1 and Part 2 covered what, why and how to practise and the final article explores the final stages...
Ambassadors of India
Symphony Orchestra of India marks UK debut in February 2019 with six-concert tour, including Russian romantic showpieces and Zakir Hussain’s...
Sophia Plowden, Khanum Jan, and Hindustani airs
Among the British Library’s extraordinary collection of materials relating to the history of Indian music in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries lie dozens of European accounts of the nautch—intimate musical parties at which troupes of high-status North Indian courtesans would...
How did the piano become a Bengali instrument? A documentary has some answers
Subha Das Mollick’s ‘Calcutta Sonata’ looks at how the piano became an integral part of the cultural fabric of Calcutta....
Trinity Fest 2018
2018 marked the year when Trinity College London, the international examinations board, reaffirmed its long standing engagement with India. The...