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.
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Performers
Niladri Kumaar
sitar and zitar (electric sitar)
Agnelo Fernandes
keyboards
Sambit Chatterjee
drums
Satyajit Talwalkar
tabla