Percussion maestros from Switzerland and India come together
Lucas Niggli and Pierre Favre from Switzerland and Aneesh Pradhan from India will come together this March at the Peninsula Studios in Delhi.

An initiative of Pro Helvetia New Delhi to bring together maestro percussionists from Switzerland and India to create work during a 4day intensive workshop. This initiative is towards a long term potential project of organizing a tour for the artists later in India.

Lucas Niggli, Pierre Favre from Switzerland and Aneesh Pradhan from India will come together to work from 9- 12 March 2015 at Peninsula Studios in Delhi. They will do a recording session on 13 March and present their work to an audience on 14 March 2015.

Pierre Favre
To read about Pierre Favre click here.

Lucas Niggli
To read about Lucas Niggli click here.

Aneesh Pradhan 
A disciple of tabla maestro Pandit Nikhil Ghosh, Aneesh Pradhan is a leading tabla soloist and accompanist to vocal and instrumental music and dance. He has inherited from his guru a considerable repertoire of traditional tabla solo compositions from the Delhi, Ajrada, Lucknow, Farrukhabad and Punjabgharanas. A recipient of several awards, Aneesh is a popular performer for classical and inter-cultural music concerts at most prestigious concerts and festivals in the country and overseas. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the India Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia. He was also a Research Fellow at the Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia. He regularly conducts lecture-demonstrations, workshops and participates in seminars, at various universities and other educational institutions in India and abroad. His teaching assignments in the past include short terms as artist-in-residence at the University of New England, Australia, and as guest lecturer at the Music Department, University of Mumbai.

Aneesh has a doctoral degree in History from the University of Mumbai. A keen researcher of trends in performance, music education and patronage that unfolded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, he writes frequently on music for newspapers, journals and other publications in India and abroad. He is deeply involved in creating and developing educational material related to Indian music and is the author of a children's book on tabla and a recent publication entitled Tabla: A Performer's Perspective. Aneesh is Founder-Director of Underscore Records, an independent online record label that he established with vocalist Shubha Mudgal. Along with Shubha, Aneesh also curates a festival called Baajaa Gaajaa: Music from 21st Century India which celebrates and showcases the diversity of music from India.

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