Roopa Panesar Live at TEDxBristol 2017

Roopa Panesar (Sitar) accompanied by Bhuphinder Singh Chaggar (Tabla) plays a very special performance of Raag Yaman in Teentaal at TEDxBristol 2017: Dare to Disrupt.

ABOUT ROOPA PANESAR

Considered one of the finest Sitar players to emerge on the Indian music scene, UK based Roopa Panesar is recognised as an emerging talent, and her soulful and unique style of playing has been receiving accolades from audiences and peers alike for her outstanding ability and quality of music, which has left her listeners captivated.

At the age of seven she began her training under the great educationalist and sitar maestro Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE and under the guidance of Pandit Arvind Parikh and Ustad Shahid Parvez.

With the incredible emotional depth of her sound, she has touched the hearts of audiences far and wide and has toured extensively in the UK and Europe at major festivals and venues such as WOMAD UK, Royal Festival Hall London, BBC Radio 3, Brighton Festival, Darbar Festival at South Bank Centre, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Colston Hall, Bristol.

Roopa has collaborated with artists from many different genres, including Mercury Prize winner Talvin Singh, Laura Wright and Dirk Brosse, Belgian Symphony Orchestra, Limburg Symphony Orchestra, German Chamber Music Festival, and with music director Rob Lane for the soundtrack of the film ‘West is West’. Regarding, Roopa’s playing on ‘West is West’, Rob Lane said, ‘Roopa’s sitar playing on “West Is West” added immeasurably to my score and showed effortless versatility in moving between blues and classical Indian styles’.

(All rights to the music performed in this video belong to Roopa Panesar. She has kindly given TEDxBristol permission to publish the performance for your enjoyment.)