IRFAN KHAN QUARTET - Music for Sarod, Surbahar, Sitar, Rabab & Tabla
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Featuring:
Ustad Irfan Khan (Sarod)
Matyas Wolter (Surbahar & Sitar)
Markus Schlaffke (Afghan Rubab)
Mohanish Jaju (Tabla )
Ustad Irfan Khan is the khalifa (head) of the ancient Lucknow Shajahanpur Gharana (Traditional School) of instrumental music and is one of the last instrumentalists of the subcontinent with a vast repertoire of historic compositions and a detailed insight into Raga grammar.
His ancestors were rubab players and came to India as martial musicians from Afghanistan in the 17th century. In Lucknow they mixed with the court musicians and modified the rubab into what would become the sarod.
The Ustad plays in the old instrumental style and strictly adheres to traditional Raga interpretation without gimmicks. Matyas Wolter and Markus Schlaffke are his students. Mohanish Jaju is on tabla.
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Organiser SAMA ARTS NETWORK LTD
Organiser of IRFAN KHAN QUARTET - Music for Sarod, Surbahar, Sitar, Rabab & Tabla
Sama Arts Network is one of the UK’s oldest and most influential arts organisations in the genre of traditional and contemporary South Asian arts, Orchestral, Jazz and World Music. Since 1977, Sama and its associate bodies have together presented more than 1,250 events with acclaimed artists from around the world. Current Work in progress: Archiving: 1,250 events, 3,000 artists 150 venues 400 albums 3,500 hours of music and film footage covering 40 years of work from 1977 – 2016 to coincide with A new Website, a book and a documentary.
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