The tabla is one of the traditional percussion instruments of Indian music. Few master it as virtuosically as superstar Bickram Ghosh – who is considered one of his home country's leading musicians not only as a percussionist, but also as a film composer and world musician. This all-round ability connects him with Kala Ramnath, who fell in love with the Indian violin as a child. Today, the internationally acclaimed musician is at home not only in Indian and European classical music, but also in jazz and other musical genres, such as flamenco. After Bickram Ghosh's opening solo performance with tabla and body percussion, Kala Ramnath joins the group for the second half of the concert. The performance concludes with a tribute to sitar and world music legend Ravi Shankar, arguably the most famous Indian musician of recent decades – and a close musical partner of Bickram Ghosh. He can be heard alongside Shankar on the Grammy-winning album “Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000,” released in 2002, among others.

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