Nishat Khan on Sitar

Nishat Khan on Sitar

Event Information:

   Event Date:July 25 -2015

   Event Time: 8.45 PM

   Event Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

   Event Tickets: Events.sulekha.com

Event About: 

One of India’s finest musicians, the virtuoso sitar player Nishat Khan has audiences globally with his provocative expression and spellbinding technical mastery. He hails from one of the most famous music families in the North Indian classical tradition that extends back for seven generations. The son and disciple of Ustad Imrat Khan, Nishat stands at the threshold of the future of sitar and Indian music with his uniquely invigorating, contemporary approach. He draws on his own musical heritage as well as engages other genres as diverse as Western classical music, jazz, Flamenco and Gregorian chant. He has worked with other major performers and composers such as John McLaughlin, Philip Glass, Paco Peña, Evelyn Glennie. In 2013 his sitar concerto Gate of the Moon was premiered at the opening night of the BBC proms to much critical acclaim.
Some of his recent performances include:
Performing a sitar concerto at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC
Philharmonic Orchestra. This concerto was commissioned by the BBC.
Opening the hundred year centennial celebrations of Indian cinema with a live film score for the silent film Throw of Dice, in New Delhi, India.
Touring in Europe, concerts at Chatelet Theater in Paris.
Budapest Spring Festival, Hungary.
Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and New York City, May 2015.
A collaboration with sculptor Anish Kapoor in London in April.