mercredi 1 novembre 2017

"Les flûtes enchantées" at Musée Guimet this week-end!


Guimet invite Berlioz 

Le MNAAG et le Festival Berlioz vous réservent un week-end musical d'exception. Réservez vos places : http://www.guimet.fr/event/guimet-invite-berlioz/


Krishna est ici représenté jouant de la flûte. Dans la religion hindoue, Krishna est souvent décrit jouant de cet instrument et notamment dans sa forme bansuri, qui est probablement l'un des plus vieux instruments à vent du nord de l'Inde.
Près de six siècles après la réalisation de cette sculpture, c’est un autre joueur de flûte que nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir dans nos murs en la personne de Rishab Prasanna, issu d’une très longue lignée de musiciens indiens et dont le grand-père était notamment le l’artiste enregistré par Alain Daniélou dans sa célèbre « anthologie de la musique indienne ».
A ses côtés le samedi 4 novembre se trouvera Samuel Bricault, l’un des plus prometteurs et jeune flûtiste de sa génération. Il a déjà joué dans de nombreux orchestres (Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris, l'Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, l’Orchestre de la Nouvelle Europe, l'Orchestre Prométhée, Sécession Orchestra, l'ensemble Nouvelles Portées) et se passionne pour les musiques improvisées.
Le samedi 4 novembre à 15h, c’est à une rencontre musicale forte et enivrante que nous vous invitons au cœur de ce que la flûte a de meilleur.
15h00 – Salon Pelliot (hôtel d’Heidelbach, 19 avenue d’Iéna)
Les Flûtes Enchantées
Deux univers musicaux différents, deux virtuoses indiens et français. Pour le public, une plongée dans les répertoires de la flûte autour de la figure universelle du pâtre musicien à travers Debussy et les grands ragas indiens.
Rishab Prasanna, flûte bansuri
Samuel Bricault, flûte à clés
Réservation : http://bit.ly/Guimet_Flûtes_Enchantées
Production Kalasetu



samedi 21 octobre 2017

Latin-Jazz-Western Classical Music with Julien Jugand (guitar) and Guillaume Duval (double bass) - SPIC MACAY World Heritage Series


Kalasetu is collaborating one more time with Spic Macay to promote the knowledge of World Traditional Music among Youth. During their stay in India, Guilllaume Duval (double bass) and Julien Jugand (guitar) will give two lec-dem in Delhi and Ludhiana

                   24/10: 10 AM at Delhi Public International School (Saket)

 
                        31/10: 8 AM at Delhi Public School of Ludhiana

 
A friendly, poetic and inspired duet traveling from Western classical, jazz, and Latin-American repertoires.


Julien Jugand is a French guitar player trained in Western Classical music and South-american music under the guidance of maestros such as Arnaud Dumond, Rafael Andia and Jacques Marmoud. Playing and arranging folk and pop music, he also works as a sound engineer and as an electronic music composer, while teaching in Dieppe's National School of Music.

Guillaume Duval
studied jazz and traditional music from Eastern Europe and West Africa. Born in Paris, he started with electric bass performing Afro-American music such as blues, funk and soul then progressively turned to double bass.

Cabaret du monde à l'Espace Langevin (Choisy-le-Roi) : chants Bauls avec Paban Das Baul et Mimlu Sen


Soirée de chants Baul avec Paban Das Baul et Mimlu Sen

Paban Das Baul et Mimlu Sen interprètent avec grande expressivité les chants traditionnels Baul. Les Bauls sont des chanteurs mystiques itinérants qui parcourent les villages du Bengale, en attirant de leur voix puissante l’attention des passants. À l’image de certains chants louant à la fois Krishna et Mohammed, la philosophie Baul transcende les dogmes religieux et les classes sociales pour porter un message d'amour et d'harmonie.

La qualité poétique et musicale des chants de ces chantres de la tradition orale est d'ailleurs bien connue : ceux‑ci ont été proclamés chefs-d’œuvre du patrimoine oral et immatériel de l’humanité par l’Unesco, en 2005.

Paban Das Baul vient du Bengale indien. Depuis l’âge de quatorze ans, il chante d'une voix fervente le répertoire des Bauls, incarnant la synergie de son lieu d’origine. Marginaux au sein de la société bengalie, les Bauls ont rejeté tous les systèmes religieux. Paban Das Baul, comme tous les Bauls, privilégie la spontanéité et l'émotion de l'instant. Il chante, danse et s'accompagne tour à tour de plusieurs instruments : le dotara (luth à deux cordes), le dubki (tambourin) et le khamak (tambour à tension variable).

Mimlu Sen soutient les chants avec l'ektara (monocorde qui crée un bourdon). Elle récite des contes et présente les chansons de Paban. Initiée par sa mère à la musique traditionnelle depuis sa plus petite enfance à Shillong. Elle a rencontré Paban à Paris en 1982 lors d’un concert. S’en est suivi une histoire d’amour et une collaboration artistique de longue haleine.

Krishna Dedeyn, leur fils, soutient les chants avec les kartalas. Depuis sa plus jeune enfance, il a été initié à la musique baul.

Depuis plus de 30 ans, Paban et Mimlu vivent et travaillent entre l’Inde et la France, et voyagent à travers le monde pour faire connaître leur musique. Ils composent et collaborent avec de nombreux musiciens français et étrangers : Archie Shepp, Cheik Tidiane Seck, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Sam Mills. Plusieurs albums sont issus de ces échanges internationaux dont on citera les deux plus connus: Real Sugar (1997) et Tana Tani (2004), de Real World Records, très populaires au Bangladesh ainsi que dans le milieu de la musique du monde.

vendredi 6 octobre 2017

[InChorus] # 5 : Latin-Jazz duet and Carnatic rhythms

 

Alliance Française de Delhi and Kalasetu present 

In[Chorus] #5 - Latin-Jazz duet and Carnatic rhythms 

on Friday, 27th October 2017, 6:30pm 

                 at M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi

 

Passionate about various forms of music, Julien Jugand and Guillaume Duval met at University where they both studied ethnomusicology and conducted researches that have greatly influenced their musical play: a friendly, poetic and inspired duet traveling from western classical, jazz, and Latin-American repertoires. Their collaboration with the versatile mridangam player Manohar Balatchandirane is unique and promise creative surprises and new textures of sound and resonance.

 Guillaume Duval is a self-taught musician born in Paris, France. He started with electric bass performing afro-american music such as blues, funk and soul then progressively turned to double bass. He studied jazz and traditional music from Eastern Europe and West Africa and collaborated to several projects (gipsy jazz, swing, folk song, spoken word, african music,...). He studied ethnomusicology, and went to Mali for a research about hunter music. This period had a great influence on his playing and gave him strong keys to approaching other musical concepts.

Julien Jugand is a French guitarist trained in classical music and South-american music under the guidance of maestros such as Arnaud Dumond, Rafael Andia and Jacques Marmoud. Playing and arranging folk and pop music, he also works as a sound engineer and as an electronic music composer, while teaching popular music history and technologies of music in Dieppe's national school of music. 

Manohar Balantchandirane started performing at a very young age under the guidance of his teacher, Mridanga Selvam Kumbakonam Shri N. Padmanaban. He accompanied various artists across India and abroad both in music and dance performances. Recognized as one of the finest upcoming mridangam player in the capital today, Manohar is also a singer, trained in Carnatic music. His knowledge in both Hindustani and Carnatic traditions is rare enough to be mentioned and allows him to develop a lot of collaboration beyond traditional styles.

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[InChorus] is a cycle of musical meetings organized by the Alliance Française de Delhi and the Kalasetu organization for the promotion of South Asian Traditional Performing Arts and exchanges between Indian and French artists.
[InChorus] offers a platform for creation dedicated to young promising musicians, of all genres, settled in India and France through residencies, concerts and workshops. We encourage talented Indian musicians to take part in the development of a musical project or to strengthen an already existing collaboration with a French (or European) artist.


dimanche 24 septembre 2017

Balkan music with Laurent Clouet (clarinet) and Fakhroddin Ghaffari (percussions) - Spic Macay World Heritage concert



In order to promote the knowledge of European and World's traditional music in India, Kalasetu is collaborating again with Spic Macay (the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth) for two lecture demonstrations around Balkan music with the French clarinet player Laurent Clouet and the Iranian percussionist Fakhroddin Ghaffari.
The first lec-dem will happen in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie on 26th, the second in IIT-Roorkee on 27th September.

Laurent Clouet (clarinet)

Laurent is a French clarinet player who has learnt music from the Balkan (Southeast Europe) with great masters such as Selim Sesler (Turkey), Petar Voinikov (Bulgaria) and Manos Achalinotopoulos (Greece). Through his travels and meetings with musicians from various backgrounds in Europe and Asia, he has developed a great sense of improvisation and knowledge of many different musical forms.

Fakhroddin Ghaffari (percussions)

Kurdish-Iranian percussionist Fakhroddin Ghaffari has mastery over several Persian and Middle Eastern percussion instruments including his main instrument, the Iranian Tombak, as well as the Egyptian Darbuka, the Kurdish Daf and the Turkish Doumbek. Fakhroddin has lived in India for the past 13 years performing and collaborating with top musicians from throughout India. He has shared the stage with artists such as Abida Parveen and Hansraj Hans.

SPIC MACAY is a non-political nationwide voluntary movement that organises programmes of classical music and dance, folk arts, crafts, yog, classic cinema screenings, heritage walks, etc. inside school and college campuses throughout the world to make students more aware about Indian and world heritage. This initiative makes education more holistic and meaningful as it highlights all that is abstract, subtle, inspiring and mystical in the world teaching one to look within oneself. SPIC MACAY runs on the energy of volunteers who come from all walks of life - students, teachers, housewives, professional and retired people, young and old." (spicmacay.com).

samedi 23 septembre 2017

[InChorus] #4: European Clarinet and Indian Santoor Duet - Alliance française of Delhi

The second season of [InChorus] starts with a concert featuring the collaboration of the French clarinet player Laurent Clouet and the Indian santoor player Abhay Rustum Sopori, two genius of improvisation gathered for a musical journey from the hills of Caucase to the mountains of Kashmir. 
They will be accompanied by Zakir Akhtar Husein on tabla and Rishi Shankar Upadhyay on pakhavaj.


THE ARTISTS

[Laurent Clouet - Clarinet] is a clarinet and saxophone player, exploring a wide range of genres through his travels and meetings with mu­sicians from oral tradition. During the past fifteen years he specialized in music from the Balkan with great masters as Selim Sesler (Turkey), Petar Voinikov (Bulgaria). Manos Achalinotopoulos and Stavros Paz­arentsis (Greece). He is involved in many ensembles such as the Trio Bey.Ler.bey, a group of improvised music from the Balkans.

[Abhay Rustum Sopori - Santoor] is a young santur maestro who belongs to a family of great players from Kashmir, associated with the Sufiana Gharana. His grandfather. Pandit Shamboo Nath Sopori, and his father, Pan­dit Bhajan Sopori, have trained him since a very young age. Abhay has already been awarded several prestigious distinctions and has collaborated with many artists like the prominent conductor Zubin Mehta. 

accompanied by

[Zakir Akhtar Hussain - Tabla] started his training on tabla from his grandfather Late Ustad Mehdi Hussain Khan, from the tradition known as "Farrukhabad Gharana" and later from his father Ustad Akhtar Hasan. He is developing his career as a solo player as well as an accompanist of instrumental music, vocal music and Kathak performances. Zakir holds a MA in Music and graduated in Humanities from Kirorimal College (Delhi University). He is an A Graded approved artist of All India Radio.
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[Rishi Shankar Upadhyay - pakhawaj] learnt from his grandfather, the late maestro Pt. Ramji Upadhyay and his father, the pakhawaj player Pt Ravi Shankar Upadhyay. The art of playing pakhawaj has been a tradition in his family for many generations. Rishi has given several solo and duet performances and also accompanied various reputed artist in India and around the World. He plays regularly with Abhay Rustum Sopori.