TWO of India's most gifted musicians take the stage at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton on June 7 at a concert sponsored by Art Asia.
Shivkumar Sharma, pictured and Zakir Hussain join forces on the santoor and tabla to present an evening of Indian classical music.
The santoor is a flat wooden box-like instrument containing 30 to 40 groups of three strings, played with two metal forks. Shivkumar was taught the instrument by his father Pandit and gave his first public performance in Bombay way back in 1955. The tabla is a drum-pair, with the left hand playing a bass drum and the right hand playing a treble drum. Zakir is one of the world's finest tabla players.
He has composed and performed music for films and also arranged the opening music for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Box office: 023 8067 1771.
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