Bido Lito!

The Indian-Western supergroup led by visionary guitar virtuoso Simon Thacker performs major new commissions by legendary American pioneer Terry Riley, British intercultural master Nigel Osborne, India's greatest composer Shirish Korde and Simon himself in one of the most ambitious and wide ranging Indian-Western programmes ever assembled.

Also featuring the beautiful voice of Japjit Kaur, internationally renowned tabla player Sarvar Sabri, who has a musical lineage stretching back ten generations to the Royal Court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and acclaimed  violinist and leader of Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave.

Svara-Kanti brings together four leading performers in Indian classical, contemporary Asian and Western classical music to combine two of the world's greatest and most diverse musical cultures, creating powerful new music using the classical, folk, spiritual and film music traditions of India as a basis.

"What particularly impresses is the sheer cohesion of the playing, with Thacker proving an acutely stylish and sensitive fulcrum for an often mesmerising melding of old and new, Indian and Western." The Classical Review

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