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The 2025-26 season opens with one of the world’s leading tabla virtuosos, Grammy Award-winning musician Sandeep Das, a 21-year member of the Silk Road Ensemble and collaborator with Paquito D’Rivera, Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma amongst others. VSO also welcomes guest sitarist Rajib Karmakar to start the concert with the first movement of pioneering composer Ravi Shankar’s Symphony. Das follows with Sri Lankan/Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne’s brilliant Tabla Concerto, a three movement exploration of baroque, electronica, folk, and romantic styles. The concert completes its East/West connection with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a hugely popular, sweeping work masterfully orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. The piece gives a distinct musical voice to visual art and shows the full colors and virtuosity of the orchestra.

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East Meets West – Rutland

Paramount Theatre, VT

The 2025-26 season opens with one of the world’s leading tabla virtuosos, Grammy Award-winning musician Sandeep Das, a 21-year member of the Silk Road Ensemble and collaborator with Paquito D’Rivera, Bobby McFerrin, and Yo-Yo Ma amongst others. VSO also welcomes guest sitarist Rajib Karmakar to start the concert with the first movement of pioneering composer Ravi Shankar’s Symphony. Das follows with Sri Lankan/Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne’s brilliant Tabla Concerto, a three movement exploration of baroque, electronica, folk, and romantic styles. The concert completes its East/West connection with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a hugely popular, sweeping work masterfully orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. The piece gives a distinct musical voice to visual art and shows the full colors and virtuosity of the orchestra.

VSO at the Flynn: East Meets West

The Flynn

VSO: East Meets West

In the 1960s, the Western world discovered the beauty of Indian music - thanks in particular to Ravi Shankar - its scales, instruments and modal improvisations. At that time, it was not only jazz and rock musicians who sought to encounter India, but also classical performers. The violinist Yehudi Menuhin said: "I owe Ravi Shankar the most inspiring moments I have ever experienced in music."

Off to India!

Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

The instrumental combination of flute and harp has been popular with composers for over two hundred and fifty years, and saw its peak in the salons and courts of France in the mid-18th and early 19th Centuries, mainly as a result of the harp’s most famous patron Marie Antoinette.

After a Dream

The Westport Library

NoonArts & Lectures presents Black Cedar, a duo of wood flutist Kris Palmer and acoustic guitarist Steven Lin, which will present music from a range of traditions including German baroque, Serbian folk and Indian classical as well as works inspired by Japanese Haiku poetry. 

Black Cedar presented by NoonArts & Lectures

First Unitarian Church of San José

Shankar Plays Shankar

Alex Theatre

Royce Hall

In the Audience Orchestra, dedicated amateurs rehearse with great enthusiasm and at a very high artistic level under conductor Michael Petermann, the director of the Hamburger Konservatorium. Each year the orchestra gives two performances in the Grand Hall and further concerts in Hamburg districts, in which they play the pieces they’ve been practicing so intensively.

Composer

Ravi Shankar

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 24 - Jun 20, 2026

Elbphilharmonie Audience Orchestra · Elbphilharmonie

Past events

Sep 27, 2025

East Meets West – Rutland · Vermont Symphony Orchestra

Sep 26, 2025

VSO at the Flynn: East Meets West · Vermont Symphony Orchestra

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