Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata in collaboration with
Nabanna Earth Weekend (NEW) 2020 Festival presents
Music Matters: Peter Pannke and Ranjani Ramachandran talk of their experiences with learning classical Hindusthani music, and discuss pedagogic traditions and innovations.
Peter Pannke is a singer, dreamer and storyteller who has been involved in a musical dialogue between Europe and the Orient for the last 40 years. After studying Sinology, Indology, Comparative Religions and Musicology he embarked on several decades of travel which led him across Asia and the Middle East before settling down in Berlin and making a name for himself as a broadcaster, producer, composer, festival director and author. Having learned the ancient North-Indian vocal art of Dhrupad with the Mallik and Dagar families he formed the world music band “Troubadours United”. His books include “Saints and Singers – Sufi Music in the Indus Valley”(Oxford University Press Karachi), “Singers Die Twice – A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad”(Seagull Books, Kolkata) “Dreamtalker – Songs, Poems, Essays”(Daastaan Books, New Delhi). In 2009 he received the Rabindranath Tagore Award in Germany. “Singers Die Twice” will be launched in a Bengali translation
Ragraginir Deshe: bharatiya shangiter pathe prantore, translated by Abdullah Al-Farooq, published by Sunandan Roy Chowdhury of Sampark, at the event.
Ranjani Ramachandran is a Hindusthani classical vocalist, a disciple of Pt Ulhas Kashalkar, Smt. Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Pt Kashinath Bodas and Vidushi Girija Devi. She specializes in the khayal and performs widely. She has a doctorate in Music on Stylistic Diversity within the Gwalior Gharana. She is on the faculty in the Dept of Hindustani Classical Music (Vocal), at Sangit Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and has worked as a Guru and Visiting lecturer at the Center for Performing Arts, University of Pune.
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