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Indian percussionist Karthik S awarded studio residency with Swiss percussionist Lucas Niggli. [dated September 2007]

When Karthik S, a young and established percussionist from Bangalore, India met the immensely talented and eminent Swiss percussionist Lucas Niggli in Zurich this September, the bonding was instant and the atmosphere reverberated with the sounds of percussion instruments that hailed from across continents.

The two have a lot in similar. Karthik, like Lucas had an affinity to music, especially to percussion instruments, at a very young age. With a background in (Carnatic) South Indian classical music, Karthik has performed in various prestigious festivals in India, China, Spain, USA, Canada, and Australia.

Lucas Niggli, a Swiss music legend has toured through all of Europe with different musicians and played on stages in Russia and America, Egypt and Canada, China and South Africa and Taiwan. He performed on major Jazz festivals in Vancouver, Berlin, Moers, Saalfelden, Willisau, Rome, Nürnberg, Capetown, Le Mans, Münster and Zurich and at New Music Festivals like Huddersfield (UK), Donaueschingen ( D) , Ultima (N), MaerzMusik (D).

Keen to take his music to new and unexplored spaces, Karthik is very excited about his residency with Lucas Niggli.