Hussain will be joined by several percussion artists.
AB Wire
Zakir Hussain, the reigning master virtuoso of the classical Indian tabla, will be joined by a combination of percussive and melodic performers for his upcoming performance in Hartoford, Connecticut, on April 15.
‘Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion’ will be coming to Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT on April 15, according to a press release.
Playing in the footsteps of his illustrious father, Ustad Allarakha, who with Ravi Shankar introduced classical music of India to America, Zakir Hussain has acted as a musical bridge between his birth land and the rest of the world.
Moreover, his remarkably wide musical vision has taken him and his tabla into unimagined realms of collaboration that make him one of the chief architects of the contemporary “world music” movement.
A child prodigy, Zakir Hussain was touring by the age of 12. He came to the United States in 1970, performing his first US concert at the Fillmore East in New York City with Pandit Ravi Shankar, embarking on an illustrious international career.
In the past few years, his Triple Concerto for banjo, bass and tabla, a piece co-composed with Edgar Meyer and Bela Fleck, was performed by them with the Nashville Symphony at the gala opening of the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall in Nashville.
Hussain’s second concerto, Concerto for Four Soloists, a special commission for the National Symphony Orchestra, was performed at Kennedy Center in March 2011, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
Most recently, his third concerto, Peshkar, debuted in September 2015 to rapturous acclaim in Mumbai. It was performed by Zakir and the Symphony Orchestra of India at the National Centre for the Performing Arts.