tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
For many decades, there has been a strong attraction between Indian classical music and jazz, as improvisation is a central component of both genres.
Founded in 2014, Trio Benares continues this storied tradition of encounters. After the award-winning CD Assi Ghat (Quarterly Prize of the German Record Critics 03/2016), Trio Benares now presents the second CD with the programme Rajas.
As part of a musical family that has existed for seven generations, Deobrat Mishra has meanwhile earned a prominent place as a sitar player among the musicians of his generation. With his 29-year-old nephew Prashant Mishra, a rising star of the Indian tabla scene, Deobrat Mishra forms a perfectly attuned symbiosis....
read more
tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
For many decades, there has been a strong attraction between Indian classical music and jazz, as improvisation is a central component of both genres.
Founded in 2014, Trio Benares continues this storied tradition of encounters. After the award-winning CD Assi Ghat (Quarterly Prize of the German Record Critics 03/2016), Trio Benares now presents the second CD with the programme Rajas.
As part of a musical family that has existed for seven generations, Deobrat Mishra has meanwhile earned a prominent place as a sitar player among the musicians of his generation. With his 29-year-old nephew Prashant Mishra, a rising star of the Indian tabla scene, Deobrat Mishra forms a perfectly attuned symbiosis.
Roger Hanschel, a master of his instrument and certainly one of the most extravagant saxophonists of contemporary music, meets the sensual and brilliant sound of the sitar with his warm sound and richness of facets; his rhythmic finesse finds its counterpart in the virtuosity of Prashant Mishra’s tabla playing.
The Trio Benares forms a perfect unity.
It is as if the three have only been waiting for each other.
Deobrat Mishra is no doubt one of the most energetic and innovative sitar artists of India.
Selectivity, melody and rhythmic complexity are typical features in his lively playing style.
Born in 1976, he represents the 11th generation of the Benares Gharana tradition.
As a young child he studied tabla with his mother, Pramila Mishra, who is the granddaughter of the well -known tabla player Pandit Baiju Mishra of Benares. He started by studying vocal music with his father at the age of five and began his sitar lessons a year later.That same year, after only six months of studying the sitar, he gave his first public performance on stage. Five years later, he performed for the first time on the All India Radio.
Since 1994 he has been touring throughout Europe with his father. In the same year he was chosen to receive the award of the best young sitar player of India by Youth Festival. In 2000 he received the “Jewels of Sound Award”(Sur Mani) in Mumbai. His many projects include music workshops, solo performances for radio and television as well as world music programs with Indian and European artists. Moreover, he is the one in charge of cultural events and music lessons provided by the Academy of Indian Classical Music, the school he founded along with his father, Pandit Shivnath Mishra, in 2006.
He received a Masters degree in sitar from the Prayag Sangit Samiti in Allahabad. In 2010 Deobrat Mishra played with Indian musician in Denmark for Global Voices of percussion. Musicians from all over the world performed and Deobrat Mishra represent Indian music in this festival.
In June 12th 2012 Mishras create history of conducting Orchestra of 108 sitar players in Varanasi-India. Total musicians where 151 including Tabla and Flute players. Music was created by Pandit Shivnath Mishra.
Among many other projects, the Mishras performed and recorded their music with the Western Symphony Orchestra of Italy in 2005. Nowadays, they fully dedicate their art to similar projects including annual tours around the world.
Above all, the Mishras (father and son) serve as two of India’s leading cultural ambassadors of our times.
Prashant Mishra is one of the best young Tabla player of benaresGharana. When he was five he started to learn tabla with the family member of Biru Mishra of Varanasi also studying Tabla presently with Mr.Chakkan lal Mishra (Student of Great Tabla player Anokhelal Mishra.
Soon after few years of hard practice with his grandfather Pandit Shivanath Mishra and uncle Deobrat Mishra he was able to perform with Mishras his skills beautifully compliment and support the Mishras in their concerts and travel around the world with them. In 2004 he won first prize in Tabla competition organized by Sangeet Natak Academy Uttar Pradesh India.He received many awards for his tabla playing at many different places.
Roger Hanschel
„For a long time Roger Hanschel has been regarded as a representative of saxophone playing which, starting from jazz, developed far beyond its own genre boundaries. His warm and clear tone, his understanding of complex rhythms and finally his own compositions have led to the fact that people now associate a clear idea with Roger Hanschel’s music. Like hardly anyone else, he is able to move towards other musical genres without slipping into superficial attitudes, as is the case with the so-called as is often the case with so-called cross-over. His musical movements start deeper and are at the same time more natural.“ Emmerich Hörmann
show less
