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Shri Prasanna Vishwanathan - Dhrupad Vocal
Olmo Cassibba - Pakhawaj

Rāg: Darbari Kanra
Tāl: Sool

Prassanna is a performer and practitioner of Dhrupad and a disciple of the Great Maestro Pandit Uday Bhawalkar. He is a senior performing scholar of the prestigious ITC Sangeet Research Academy Kolkata and has many Dhrupad performances in India and abroad to his credit. He has accompanied his Guru at the Salzburg Music Festival Austria and Israel assisting him in various workshops and concerts. Prassanna has scored music and sung for many documentaries, television, promos and films like Talaash, Raees, The Anupam Kher Show to name a few.
Prassanna has also collaborated with international artists contributing to sound and art installations worldwide. He has many Jugalbandi performances with Shri Sagar Morankar to his credit.

He has received the ‘Young Achievers Award’ by the Rotary Club of Coimbatore Metropolis in recognition of his achievements as a Dhrupad Vocalist. Prassanna has been performing Dhrupad concerts in different parts of India. He has performed in India and abroad in venues such as:

Residence of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Sahab Kolkata
Nehru Centre Mumbai
Shri Ramakrishna Mission Asansol
ITC Sangeet Research Academy Kolkata
Temple of Fine arts, Coimbatore
GKNM auditorium, Coimbatore
Dev Nandan Udhayaker Yuva Sangeet Mahotsav, Bangalore
Ustad Alla Rakha Sangeet Sammelan Punjab
Smaran 2016 Bhopal Dhrupad Sansthan Bhakti Utsav 2018 New Delhi

Olmo Cassibba is a multi-instrumentalist/producer and DJ, mainly drawn to Jori/Pakhawaj, sax and percussion as his chosen tools of expression, hailing from a background in Jazz and Indian Classical music. He is influenced by a wide array of genres and styles and has been playing professionally for over 15 years. He has performed with a variety of artists including Groves Guru, Cut Collective, Surinder Singh, and Alexia Chellun to name but a few. In recent years he expanded his repertoire into electronic and contemporary music, collaborating with producer Flako and House Producer Oliver Night and has also featured on Roots Manuva's '4everevolution' as well as EVM128's recent album 'Nova'. Currently, he is in the process of completing his self-composed and produced debut solo EP due for release in early 2019.

Venue: SOAS University
Date: 15th September 2018

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