Arjun Verma 2018
When
April 2018
7:30 pm – 10 pm
Where
Will be specified.
Who
Sitar – Arjun Verma
Tabla – Florian Schiertz
Tampura – Eva Hlinková
After the concert, a workshop dedicated to the interpretation of Indian classical music, mainly ragas, will be held in the Yoga school in Bašť. The workshop is suitable not only for the sitar players, but also to all musicians interested – singers, guitarists, drummers etc.
Arjun Verma is a sitarist trained by Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. As a child, Arjun learned from his father, sitarist Roop Verma, himself a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar. As a teenager, Arjun was very fortunate to study with Ali Akbar Khan for eight years, and since the Maestro’s passing in 2009, with his son Alam Khan. The combination of these influences results in a style encompassing the profound as well as exhilarating aspects of North Indian classical music.
Arjun has performed around the world, including noteworthy performances with St. Louis Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, and at Prague Castle, Pattee Arena, the Fillmore, and at the United Nations in Geneva.
Arjun has performed with renowned musicians in many genres, including Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Alam Khan, Bob Weir, Pandit Sharda Sahai, Ustad Shabbir Nisar, Nitin Mitta, Kai Eckhardt, Krishna Das, Anirban Roy Chowdhury, and Salar Nader.
Arjun’s music has received critical acclaim from leading publications, including the New York Times, Sruti Magazine, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Born in 1973 in Germany Florian Schiertz postgraduated in performance at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in the fields of tabla and North Indian classical music. He is a disciple of Sumantra Guha of the Farukhabad gharana and has recently returned from his 17th studying and performing sojourn in India. Florian accompanied sitar player Pandit Kushal Das in Europe and in India. With Kolkata based musician Kalyan Mukherjee he gave about 100 sarod concerts. His performance with western-classical percussionist Wolfram Winkel at the tabla festival in Munich has been broadcasted on BR-Klassik on 11.01.2014 with the comment: “A meeting of cultures: breathtaking and full of suspense.”
“Path breaking: German Tabla Vadak holds audience spellbound” – The Hitavada, M.P., INDIA, 15.02.2009 Newspaper Clippings
“The BEAT SCIENTISTS – German percussionists Florian Schiertz and Wolfram Winkel script a new musical language” – The Hindu, February 26, 2015
“One can never master Indian classical music” – Times of India, March 2014
“Tabla is his soul” – Indian Express, March 2011
“Soul of music can cross boundaries” – The Hindu, INDIA, April 2010
