Morning Riyaaz

Supported by

Shilpa Kumar

and

Vikram Desai

Morning Riyaaz features younger, contemporary and thinking musicians and offers an opportunity to experience the music as an insider. The series enable audiences to be a part of the personal investment, creative processes and special relationships to their material and lineage that individual musicians pursue and develop in strikingly diverse ways. This is a rare experience in which the musicians allow us into their inner chambers, an almost private, secluded space of thought, communion and practice.

Priya Purushothaman is a Hindustani vocalist of the Agra gharana, trained under Vidushi Aditi Upadhya, Pandit Sudheendra Bhowmick, and Agra gharana stalwart Pandit Dinkar Kaikini. Over the last 20 years, she has established herself as a leading voice of the next generation of young vocalists, performing at reputed venues around the world. She has been featured at the Barbican Centre, London; Bimhhuis, Amsterdam; Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series, NY; National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai; Kalakshetra, Chennai; Gharana NextGen Festival, Mumbai; among many others.

Tabla: Swapnil Bhise

Harmonium: Dnyaneshwar Sonawane

Program Co-Curator: Devina Dutt