Niladri Kumaar: The Space Between the Note

Saturday, April 17, 7:30pm

New Music 
Niladri Kumaar
The Space Between the Notes


Niladri Kumaar, sitar and zitar (electric sitar)
Satyajit Talwalkar, tabla
Charlie Lindner, keyboards
Dèmitrio Albano, drums

Program:
Instrumentalist, composer, and gifted sitarist Niladri Kumaar was an admired collaborator and longtime protegé of the late tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain—appearing multiple times with him at Cal Performances—and their special musical relationship is explored in Sumantra Ghosal’s documentary film The Space Between the Notes. To honor his friend and mentor, Kumaar has created a new ensemble of Indian and North American musicians that will perform a program combining his own original compositions with works that he and Hussain used to play together. In this performance, next-generation musician Kumaar performs on acoustic sitar and the electric five-string zitar of his own invention.