Meet The Artists: Josh Feinberg & Vivek Pandya
Join us on May 12 for an audience with Josh Feinberg and Vivek Pandya. This is a unique opportunity for music patrons, teachers, practicing artists, students, and music aficionados to participate in a fun and interactive session
Date/Time: May 12 2022, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Surrey, Surrey Arts Centre | Event calendar13750 88 Ave
P: 604-501-5566
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Cost: Free but must register
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Enjoy the chance to ask questions, share experiences, and learn valuable tips and advice from a master of his craft and an up and coming prodigy. This engaging session will also include a reception (public health orders allowing) where participants will have a chance to celebrate, network, and discuss Indian classical music. The event is free, but registration is required.
Project Consultant, Nina Buddhdev, The BANDISH Network.
About Josh Feinberg:
Josh began his musical training at a young age, studying piano and bass in New York City, studying with some of the most accomplished musicians on the scene. In his teens, Josh fell in love with the music of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, and shifted his focus to sitar and Hindustani music while pursuing his Bachelor’s degree from New England Conservatory.
Josh is a student of the Maihar Gharana (school of playing) and has earned the love and respect of connoisseurs of Hindustani music, as well art-music communities around the world. One of the first non-Indian musicians to be accepted as a leading performer, he has learned with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan as well as Ust. Aashish Khan, Sri Alam Khan, Pt. Tejendra Majumdar, Dr. Peter Row, Dr. George Ruckert, Sri James Pomerantz, Sri Warren Senders and Smt. Vijaya Sundaram. Josh has also learned tabla and attended workshops with Pt. Anindo Chatterjee.
In 2019 Josh had three international tours including 25 concerts in 28 days for his India tour at some of the leading venues in the country. Josh is also one of very few young musicians who has performed with most of the top tabla artists in the world including Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri, Pt. Anindo Chatterjee, and Pt Kumar Bose.
Josh recorded his debut album, Homage, featuring tabla maestro Swapan Chaudhuri in 2013 and released his second album, One Evening in Spring, in November 2014 featuring tabla maestro Anindo Chatterjee. His album with Pt. Anindo Chatterjee, A Fallen Blossom in the Thorns, was released in early 2017 to great acclaim.
In 2013, Josh published a sitar method book for the Hal Leonard Corporation, the world’s largest music publisher. He currently teaches at Lewis and Clark College, and Reed College in Portland, and teaches both in person and online to students around the world. When not touring, Josh splits his time between Portland, Oregon, and New York City.
About Vivek Pandya:
Coming from a musical family, Vivek was naturally drawn towards the tabla from a young age. His uncle and father played Indian classical music and used to regularly practice at home. Guided by his dad and uncle, by the age of five, Vivek was accepted as a student of world-renowned maestro, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee. Vivek is regarded as a tabla prodigy who can carry the legacy of the maestros. He has played and accompanied renowned artists and respected musicians around the globe. He has produced two albums, including one with santoor player, Vinay Desai. To spread the legacy and culture of Indian classical music, Vivek also teaches and mentors young students, who are the future of this great art.
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