Satyajit Talwalkar (Tabla) Satyajit Talwalkar has had the privilege of studying tabla from a very young age with his father, the tabla maestro Suresh Talwalkar. Today he is recognized as a versatile ...

The classical music of Northern India is said to be one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world. It is said that the origins of this system go back to the Vedas (ancient scripts of the ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, died at a San Francisco hospital last week due to a respiratory condition; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He was 73. The percussionist was laid to rest at the ...

Thunderous applause filled the jam-packed auditorium as a Tabla- Bansuri Jugalbandi was performed by Sabir Hussain from Jaipur and Kees Van Boxtel from the Netherlands. This is part of the ongoing ...

For most Westerners, Indian classical music begins with the sitar and ends with the tabla. More aware listeners may also be familiar with the lute-like sarod and the double-reed shenai. But few are ...

Alongside conductor Alpesh Chauhan, Fazal Qureshi was joined on stage by soloists Niladri Kumar (sitar) and Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri). The Triple Concerto for tabla, sitar and bansuri is the second ...

Rich and mellow tunes resonated through the club lawn on March 6, at The Saturday Club presents Bansuri Ki Dhun in association with The Telegraph. The event brought forth a beautiful evening of ...

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC SSO in Zakir Hussain's Triple Concerto for Tabla, Sitar & Bansuri, an intoxicating fusion of Eastern and Western musical traditions. Zakir’s Hussain brother and tabla ...