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featuring !CHITRAVINA N RAVIKIRAN
GLEN VELEZ
LOIRE (lori cotler)
TA KI TA trio
...An unprecedented melharmonic and melo-rhythmic mélange
featuring three award-winning innovative geniuses in world music.
TA KI TA trio
...WATCH RAVIKIRAN WATCH LOIRE WATCH GLEN
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Influences Concerts will feature melo-rhythmic elements of…
❖ Jazz
❖South Indian (Carnatic), North Indian & Western
classical
❖Middle Eastern, Eastern European & Central Asian
❖ Brazilian
❖ Scat singing and konnakol
TA KI TA trio
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CHITRAVINA N RAVIKIRAN WWW.RAVIKIRANMUSIC.COM
!The world’s youngest performer - from age two
First vocal concert at age 5, first chitravina concert at 11.
Celebrated for his world music concept Melharmony.
City of Middleton, WI has decreed that every 3rd
Saturday of Nov be
celebrated as Melharmony Day.
Extensive recordings for major labels.
Featured by networks including BBC, CNN, ABC & NPR.
Collaborators include top world artistes and orchestras.
“An arresting virtuoso” - Los Angeles Times “Perhaps the greatest slide instrumentalist in the world today” - Radio National, Australia
“Teasing precision” - New York Times
“Hailed as the ‘Mozart of Indian music” - Wisconsin State Journal
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GLEN VELEZ WWW.GLENVELEZ.COM
❖ Four-time Grammy Award-winner
❖ Seminal figure hailed as the father of Frame Drumming
❖ Numerous film recordings, hundreds of albums on ECM, CBS, RCA, GRP, Warner Brothers, Sony.
❖ Collaborators include John Cage, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, Trichy Sankaran and Zakir Hussain.
❖ Master classes at The Juilliard School, Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Mannes College of Music (New York).
“Extreme virtuosity and imagination ... astonishing sophistication" - Village Voice
“A galaxy of timbres and inflections ... remarkable rhythmic fireworks"- The New York Times “Dazzling solo…dizzying contrapuntal textures” - The New York Times
LOIRE WWW.LOIREVOX.COM
❖ Innovative ‘Rhythm Vocalist’ - lightening fast Konnakol (South Indian drum language) in genre-bending world and jazz stylings.
❖ Master classes at The Juilliard School and other prestigious conservatories. ❖ Frequent international radio and television broadcasts. ❖ Soloist with National Chinese Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra,
Netherlands Blazers Ensemble, National ReisOpera. ❖ Collaborations include JacobTV, Howard Levy, Kepa Junkera, Eugene
Friesen, among others.
“Jaw-dropping dexterity…acrobatic vocalizing and rapid-fire articulation.”- Chicago Classical Review
“Explosive…buoyant” -The New York Times
“Impossibly breakneck speed…peerless artistry” -The Jerusalem Post
