12 October, 2017
Sunday, October 15
2:30pm
Program:
Raga Zila Kafi
Raga Vasant Mukhari
Raga Jhinjhoti
Sitarist and ethnomusicologist Peter Row has performed as a solo recitalist throughout India and North America, making numerous concert, radio, and television appearances. He received his training on sitar and rudra vina for eight years in Kolkata under the guidance of Pandit Gokul Nag. A member of
the faculty of New England Conservatory, he teaches in the departments of Music History, Theory, Contemporary Improvisation and Liberal Arts.
Ajay Sinha is a professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College. In the 1980s, he started learning the North Indian percussion drums called the tabla with Shri K. Paramjyoti in New Jersey, followed by training with Shri Basavaraja Bhendigeri in Dharwar, India. For the past five years, he has been studying the Banaras style of tabla with Pandit Ashis Sengupta.
Violinist Sarah Atwood holds first violin positions in both the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Portland Symphony Orchestra. She actively plays with Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Cantata Singers, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Sarah has also performed in concert as part of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Monadnock Music, and Virginia Arts Festival.
Sarah’s solo appearances have taken her to Carnegie Weill Hall and Jordan Hall.
$10 General Admission
Free General Admission for Students & Seniors 65+
98 Hayden Rowe St. Hopkinton, MA
