Folks this will be a great performance. Don't miss it what ever you do.
The Australian Institute of Eastern Music
presents
Moving East
A Celebration of Asian Music and Dance 2005
Saturday 3rd December 7:30pm
Japanese Koto - Satsuki Odamura
Hindustani Sarod & Tabla - Adrian McNeil & Bobby Singh
South Indian Kuchipudi Dance - Vimala Sarma
Javanese Dance & Gamelan - Vi King Lim & Langen SukaAustralian Institute of Music
1-59 Foveaux Street Surry Hills
Tickets$25/20seniors/students/unemployed/AIEM members
Family rate (2 adults 2 children) $55
Groups of 10 or more - 10% discount
Refreshments available
For bookings call: 8250 5538 aiemevents@yahoo.com.au
About the Artists:
Satsuki Odamura is a Japanese koto virtuoso, who has pioneered the teaching and performing of koto, an ancient Japanese instrument in Australia. She has won the Australian World Music Awards 2000 World Music Instrumentalist of the Year, two Sounds Australian Awards for Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music by an Individual and the 1998 Green Room Award for Original Score.
Her performances range from jazz-like improvisations with saxophonist Sandy Evans and percussionist Tony Lewis to collaboration with sarod virtuoso Ashok Roy. In the process she has inspired a number of Australian composers to write music for the koto. Among these compositions are Carl Vine's concerto Gaijin written for her 13-stringed koto and bass koto, Peter Sculthorpes' Little Requiem written for koto and bass koto and premiered with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Liza Lim's work for the contemporary music ensemble Elision and Barry Connyngham's Afterimages for koto and small orchestra.
Satsuki has recorded two compact discs, Like a Bird and Burning House, a world-first CD consisting entirely of works by Australian composers.
Adrian McNeil is well known in India where he performs regularly and has made a number of recordings for television and radio. A guitar student since childhood, Adrian began training in Hindustani music in 1980 as a disciple of Pt. Ashok Roy He has intensively studied sarod and Hindustani classical music in India for more than twenty years according to the strict precepts of the guru-sishya parampara traditional training method. For the last five years he has been a disciple of Prof. Sachindra Nath Roy and also the expert vocalist and musicologist Dr. Ashok Ranade, both based in Mumbai. Adrian has a Ph.D. in music and has published important articles and books on Indian music, and has taught in music departments in Australia, U.S.A., U.K., India and Hong Kong.
" A scintillating sarod performance at the India International Centre " The Times of India (New Delhi).
Bobby Singh was born and raised in England, Bobby spent a great deal of his childhood in Mumbai studying with the great tabla maestro Pandit Nikhil Ghosh. Recognised at a young age as a tabla player of considerable ability, he was put under the care of Nikhil Ghosh’s senior disciple, Aneesh Pradhan, under whose guidance he has now matured into a performer of international experience. Now a resident of Australia, he has received numerous awards and accolades and has performed with some of the finest musicians in Australia. Outside of the milieu of Indian classical music, he has also formed his own fusion group DHA and also performs in the hugely popular and well-known dance music band, The Bird. Bobby has now become one of the most known and respected musicians in the World Music Scene in Australia. The demand for his exciting, virtuosic and inspiring playing is such that no world music festival in Australia is complete without his performance.
Vimala Sarma, an exponent of Kuchipudi South Indian classical dance has performed both in India at the prestigious Madras Music and Dance Festival and in other festivals both in India and Australia, including the AIEM Asian Music and Dance Festival at the Opera House. She is the founder and director of the Nayika Indian Dance in Sydney and has many students.
Langen Suka Sydney Gamelan Association is Australia’s premier gamelan ensemble specialising in the traditional music of Central Java. Since its inaugural performance Puspawarna—Many Kinds of Flowers at the Performance Space, Redfern in 1999, Langen Suka has been introducing the sensuous and meditative sounds of the gamelan to Sydney where it is based. In August 2002, Langen Suka captivated audiences at the Asian Music and Dance Festival held at The Studio, Sydney Opera House with its dance-drama production The Banishment of Sekar Taji, which was acclaimed for its "powerful elegance" and music "as soothing as the lapping of waves at a lake’s edge" (Sydney Morning Herald).
The group is led by its Artistic Director, Vi King Lim who lived and studied in Java during the mid-1990s and is currently teaching at the Department of Music, The University of Sydney. The gamelan instruments on which Langen Suka performs are owned and provided by the Australian Museum and the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia and are housed at the Old Darlington School, University of Sydney, where Langen Suka holds its weekly rehearsals.
