Hyderabad: Triveni Music and Dance Festival Season 2 to feature renowned performers on Jan 4

Hyderabad: Surmandal which has been in the service of music for the past 55 years is organising ‘Triveni-Music and Dance Festival Season 2’ on January 4 (Saturday) at 6 pm at Ravindra Bharathi.

The festival will feature a Kathak recital by Mukti Shri Mukku. The accompanying artists include: Ashay Kulkarni on Tabla; Krushna Salunke on Pakhawaj; Suranjan Khandolkar on Vocal, Yashwant Thitte on Harmonium and Anvi Shri on Padhant.

This will be followed by a Jugalbandi by the renowned Ustad Shahid Parvez on the Sitar with Vid Shashank Subramaniam on the flute. Ojas Adhiya will accompany them on Tabla and Shri Satish Patri on Mridungam. Telangana Tourism and Canara Bank are part of the organisers of the festival.

Experts in dance to attend festival

Padma Shri Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is a well-known sitar maestro from the Imdadkhani gharana. He represents the seventh generation of the Etawah Gharana as its primary exponent.

Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan has performed in all major musical festivals in India and abroad including the Festival of India held in the US, Europe, USSR, Canada, Africa, Middle-East and Australia. He is considered as the synonym for the sitar. A leading exponent of the Etawah gharana, which produced legends like Imdad Khan, Enayat Khan and Vilayat Khan, Shahid Parvez is known for his rendition.

Mukti Shri, a Kathak dancer and teacher based in Hyderabad, said dance is her worship. My dance is my offering to God, she added. She has performed at venues like the prestigious Barbican Centre, South Bank Centre, the UK Kathak Festival and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

She has also performed at the International Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland; the World Percussion Festival in Istanbul, Turkey; Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; and Vasantotsav in Pune, India.

Triveni was conceptualized by Mohan Hemmadi to pay tribute to legends such as Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Allah Rakha Khan Saab and MS Subbulakshmi. The festival now is being organised in loving memory of the late Anuradha Hemmadi and the late Shri Mohan Hemmadi, the founders of Surmandal.

Ustad Shahid Parvez is performing in Hyderabad after a very long gap and there is a lot of traction for this show. The tickets are available online on BookMyShow.