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Sandeep Das (Tabla Virtuosos)

Sandeep Das

Tabla Virtuosos

Sandeep Das is one of the world’s leading tabla virtuosos. A favorite disciple of the legendary tabla maestro Pandit Kishan Maharaj ji of the Benaras Gharana, he has built a diverse international career, collaborating with a variety of genre-crossing artists. Das is the founder of HUM (Harmony and Universality through Music), an ensemble promoting global understanding through performance and education. He has composed for and performed internationally with the Silk Road Ensemble since the group’s founding in 2000, and is a Grammy-nominated recording artist in his own right.

Farzin Dehghan (Kamancheh virtuoso)

Farzin Dehghan

Kamancheh virtuoso

Farzin Dehghan is a Kamancheh virtuoso hailing from Isfahan, Iran. His acclaimed talents have taken him to many stages where he has performed Persian, Arabic, Indian, American, Kurdish, Turkish, and cross-cultural music throughout the United States with renowned artists such as Aynur Dogan, Simon Shaheen, Abigail Washburn, Sandeep Das, Mike Block, Wu Man, Shane Shanahan, and Alireza Shah Mohammadi.

Farzin is currently continuing his studies at Berklee College of Music, and has been recently selected to the prestigious Omi International Art Center’s 2017 Residency.

Tamer Pinarbasi (Kanun Virtuoso)

Tamer Pinarbasi

Kanun Virtuoso

Tamer Pinarbasi started his kanun lessons at the age of 10 and had already made hundreds of recordings with top Turkish artists by the age of 13. Starting at the age of 17, he began concertizing throughout Europe, and he has shared his music with diverse audiences over the years. After years of musical training at Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music Conservatory and thousands of performances throughout the world, Tamer moved to Unites States (1994) and branched out to explore Jazz, funk, flamenco, classical, and contemporary music which has continued to this day. His diverse recordings reveal the range of his artistry from jazz standards to microtonal eastern music with string orchestrations as well as his unique compositions. Tamer’s unique technical approach - playing with all ten fingers rather than the traditional two index finger-strumming - as well as his knowledge of both the eastern microtonal (makam) system and western harmony, has paved the way for him to become one of the world’s greatest kanun virtuosos.