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2 Courtesy of Sruti Shujaat Khan with Shujaat Khan Sitar Abhiman Kaushal Tabla PROGRAM There will be no intermission. Set list will be announced from stage. Saturday, September 28 at 8 PM Zellerbach Theatre This performance is co-presented with Sruti, The India Music and Dance Society. 13/14 Season 3

3 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Shujaat Khan (Sitar) Shujaat Husain Khan is one of the greatest North Indian classical musicians of his generation. He belongs to the Imad Khan gharana of the sitar and his style of playing, known as gayaki ang, is imitative of the subtleties of the human voice. Shujaat Khan's musical pedigree extends seven generations. He is the son and disciple of the great sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan. His father, grandfather, Ustad Imdad Khan, and great-grandfather, Ustad Sahebdad Khan, were all leading artists of their respective generations. Khan's musical career began at the age of three when he began practicing on a specially-made small sitar. By the age of six, he was recognized as a child prodigy and began giving public performances. He has performed at all of the prestigious music festivals in India as well as throughout Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. Audiences around the world are captivated by his unique style of sitar playing, his exceptional voice and his intuitive, spontaneous approach to rhythm. In 1999, Khan performed as a soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and in 2007, he was the featured artist at musical concerts celebrating India's 50th anniversary of independence at Carnegie Hall, Paramount Theatre and Meyers Symphony Theater. Khan was also the sole artist representing India in a special performance at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in Geneva which commemorated India's independence. Alongside his many notable performances, Khan has been a regularly featured artist at prestigious concert halls including Royal Albert Hall, Royce Hall and Congress Hall. Khan has also collaborated with different genres of music. The Rain, an album featuring Shujaat Khan and the Indo-Persian Ghazal ensemble, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Traditional World Music Album. In January 2000, the Boston Herald listed Khan's concert, along with luminaries like Seiji Ozawa and Luciano Pavarotti, as one of the top 25 upcoming cultural events for the year. Additionally, among the numerous awards and international recognition he has received, Khan's Lost Songs of the Silk Road was honored on Amazon.com's The 100 Greatest World Music Albums of All Time list in August In 2010, Shujaat Khan worked with Asha Bhosle in releasing Naina Lagai Ke. The two performed in sold out concerts in London, Birmingham and Leicester. Their album was selected as Top Ten Best New Album Release by the editor of Songlines Magazine and was featured in the magazine's exclusive Top of the World CD in Shujaat Khan has been invited as visiting faculty at the Dartington School of Music in England, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has more than 100 CD releases on a variety of international labels, as well as a video called KHANDAN. Abhiman Kaushal (Tabla) At a young age, Abhiman Kaushal was indoctrinated into the world of the tabla by his father, R.B. Kaushal, a disciple of the legendary Ustad Amir Hussain Khan. While living in the city of Hyderabad, India, Abhiman Kaushal furthered his studies with both Ustad Sheikh Dawood and Pandit B. Nandkumar. As a result, Abhiman Kaushal is now considered to be one of the leading proponents of the Farukkabad, Lucknow and Ajrara schools of tabla. 4

4 Throughout his accomplished career, Abhiman Kaushal has performed with a veritable "who's who" of leading Indian musicians, vocalists and dancers. As he is open to diverse collaborations, Kaushal has also performed with French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, the Mexican Symphony Orchestra, gamelan maestro I Nyoman Wenten, Malijazzer Cheick Tidiane Seck and the late bandleader/percussionist Tito Puente. Aesthetically speaking, Abhiman Kaushal is renowned for the vivid tone he elicits from the tabla, his articulate performances and his command of both traditional and progressive rhythmic compositions. His talents and achievements have led him to become Director of Tabla at University of California Los Angeles' Ethnomusicology Department, where he has been training a large and diverse student body since He is also a lecturer in the music department at UC Riverside. 13/14 Season 5

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