HCL Concerts to feature Ustad Shujaat Khan, L Subramaniam and others

CHENNAI: HCL Concerts will present ‘Transcendence: Music for the Mind’ featuring renowned musicians Ustad Shujaat Khan, Dr L Subramaniam, Kavita Seth, Rakesh Chaurasia,

Shillong Chamber Choir

and the Ustad Anwar Khan Manganiyars from August 12 to 14.

HCL has been organizing HCL Concerts for 23 years to nurture and promote talent rooted in the heritage of Indian classical performing arts. Concerts under the umbrella of HCL Concerts are organized in Delhi NCR, Lucknow, Nagpur, Madurai, Chennai and Bengaluru in India and New York and San Francisco in the US regularly throughout the year. More than 1,500 artists have graced this platform and have contributed towards reinvigorating the Indian classical performing arts.

On August 12, Rakesh Chaurasia will perform, followed by Ustad Anwar Khan Manganiyars. He has received the

Indian Music Academy Award

in 2007, Aditya Birla Kalakiran Puraskar in 2008, the Guru Shishya Award in 2011, IWAP-Pandit Jasraj Sangeet Ratna Award in 2013, and Pannalal Ghosh Puraskar in 2013.

Ustad Anwar Khan Manganiyars are known for their folk music. They are the groups of hereditary professional musicians, whose music has been supported by wealthy landlords and aristocrats for generations. Their songs are passed on from generation to generation as a form of oral history of the desert. The concert will feature the Anwar Khan group.

Ustad Shujaat Khan and Shillong Chamber

Choir

will perform on August 13. Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan is a renowned Indian classical musician and sitar player of the Imdadkhani Gharana. His style of sitar playing is known as Gayaki Ang, which aims at imitating the human voice.

The Choir’s versatility ranges from performances with the

Vienna Chamber Orchestra

and the Fitz William Quartet to collaborations with Amitabh Bachchan for the opening of’ Kaun Banega Crorepati’. They have also teamed up with other recognized names like Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Usha Uthup

L Subramaniam, followed by Kavita Seth, will perform on August 14. He is an Indian violinist, composer, and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music and renowned for his virtuoso playing techniques and compositions in orchestral fusion.

Kavita is a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of ghazals and Sufi music, and leads a Sufi musical group, Karwaan. She has rendered some mesmerising Bollywood numbers like ‘Maula’ in the film ‘Vaada’, ‘Mujhe Matt Roko’, ‘Mora Piya’, ‘Bangur Jaisi Duniya’, ‘Iktara’ in ‘Wake Up Sid’ and ‘Tum Hi Ho Bandhu’ in ‘Cocktail’. Her recent Bollywood chart-toppers include ‘Nuskha Tarana’ from ‘Gone Kesh’, ‘Khalipan Shor Kare’ from ‘Paharganj’, ‘Jeete Hain Chal’ from ‘Neerja’, ‘Prem Mein Tohre’ from ‘Begum Jaan’, and ‘Maa’ from ‘Maatr’.

The concerts will be streamed on: www.facebook.com/HCLConcerts from 6pm onwards.