Saz-e-Bahar

Festival of Indian Instrumental Music
An NCPA Presentation

The ninth edition of this two-day festival will showcase four instrumentalists wielding instruments from different categories – string-plucked (sitar), string-bowed (violin & sarangi) and drums-percussion (tabla).

On each day at 6.00 pm, Dr. Suvarnalata Rao will present a pre-event talk on specific instruments presented on the respective days.

12th April
Anupriya Deotale (violin)
Sabir Khan (sarangi)
(approx. 105 mins)

Anupriya Deotale’s music has a strong undercurrent of emotionality. An ‘A’ grade artiste of All India Radio, she is equally at ease with Hindustani classical and contemporary music. Sabir Khan has trained under the guidance of his father, the legendary maestro Sultan Khan, and has an outstanding control over the technique and idiom of sarangi.

13th April
Anubrata Chatterjee (tabla)
Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar)
(approx. 105 mins)

Anubrata Chatterjee had the privilege of learning tabla from stalwarts like Jnan Prakash Ghosh, and his own father, Anindo Chatterjee of the Farrukhabad gharana. Having won the President of India award at the age of 15 for being the best instrumentalist, today, Purbayan Chatterjee is an accomplished sitar player of international repute.

Daily Tickets:
Rs.135/- (Members)
Rs.150/- (Public)

Box Office now Open.