Event Programme - Crossing Borders - 18 January 2024

International Concert Series 2023-2024

CROSSING BORDERS

WITH JAMES PUSEY & HANIF KHAN EVENT PROGRAMME

JANUARY 18, 2024 ROYALHOLLOWAY.AC.UK/MUSIC

Department of Music

School of Performing & Digital Arts

International Concert Series 2023-24

OUR 2023-24 SEASON We are pleased to welcome you to our 2023-24 International Concert Series at Royal Holloway.

We, at the Department of Music, cannot wait to showcase the varied talent of our students and staff, but also bringing internationally renowned musicians to the College. For 2023-24, we are back and better than ever with more student and staff opportunities through the creation of 'The Platform', an open opportunity for the community at the Department of Music to share with you what makes us so special. Alongside our popular Midweek Music and Pocket Concert Series, we are excited to continue our special partnerships with the Young Classical Artists Trust and BBC New Generation Artists and continue our alumni recital series by bringing back the epoch ensemble. We are pleased to also bring a wealth of international artists to our series, including pianists Pina Napolitano, Mary Dullea, Sholto Kynoch, Alexander Soares, and Joseph Havlat, violinist Darragh Morgan, guitarist Laura Snowden, clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz, 1|P a g e

sitarist James Pusey, mezzosoprano Helen Charlston, jazz group Solstice, and the London Mozart Players. 2023 also marks the final season for our quartet-in-residence, the Tippett Quartet, as we say farewell to this stellar group with their final concert at Royal Holloway.

All in all, this season is representative of the world-class talent our community at the Department of Music has fostered as we showcase our students and the range of music performance we programme and encourage; from jazz to world music, orchestral performance to solo piano, as well as presenting performers from the international stage. We look forward to welcoming you to our series this year.

Dr Nathan James Dearden Music Performance Manager & Curator of the International Concert Series

International Concert Series 2023-24

Crossing Borders with James Pusey & Hanif Khan International Concert Series 2023-24 Thursday, 18 January 2024 Picture Gallery, Founder’s Building with

James Pusey Sitar Hanif Khan Tabla

Estimated finish time: 21.15pm There will be a short rest break during this afternoon’s performance.

Please no flash photography or visual/audio recording throughout the event.

For news about our future events, please visit royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

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International Concert Series 2023-24

EVENT OVERVIEW

EVENT PERFORMERS

As part of our 2023-24 Crossing Border Series, we welcome acclaimed sitarist James Pusey to Royal Holloway for an evening of North Indian classical music with Hanif Khan on tabla.

James Pusey is UK based sitar player of the Etawah/Vilayat Khani Gharana. After discovering the sitar in the early 90’s and a period of study under Ustad Dharambir Singh (MBE) James travelled to Mumbai, India to study with Pandit Arvind Parikh (regarded as Ustad Vilayat Khan’s senior-most disciple and a leading figure in Hindustani Music).

Fast forward more than 20 years and several study trips to India later, James continues to receive talim (teaching and guidance) and remains one of only a handful of non-Indian students of Pandit Arvind Parikh.

Tabla player Hanif Khan is an internationally acclaimed musician who has performed with Hari Prashad Chaurasia and Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, amongst others.

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