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The Ali Akbar College of Music – Switzerland celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! Our yearly seminar will take place again in November from the 21st to the 28th, and will include several special events to mark this important milestone, including a gala concert on November 27th. The details will be posted here in the coming weeks. They main events will include: November 21 to 28 – Annual Seminar for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. November 26 to 28 – Introductory seminar (Schnupperkurs), for those who wish to take part in a short introduction to Indian music. November 27 – Gala concert with guest artists from both eastern and western music traditions.

MUSICA FIORITA and the Ali Akbar College of Music – Switzerland On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of MUSICA FIORITA and in Honour of the visit to Basel of HRH Shriji ARVIND SINGH MEWAR, the 76th Maharana of Udaipur present Meeting Two Worlds of Modal Music – Indian Ragas & Medieval Song Songs of Love – Ragas of Longing Ken Zuckerman – Sarod, Dhotar Hanna Järveläinen –Soprano Sankar P. Chowdhury – Tabla „Zum Hohen Dolder“ St. Albansvorstadt 35, Basle Saturday, June 12th, 5 p.m. Tickets Fr. 35.- / 25.- (students) By reservation only! 061 273 93 02 (answering machine) www.aliakbarcollege.org “Ten times more than the flowers needed to build a mountain up to the sky are the sweet greetings I send you, and may God fill you with love for me.” Jehan De Lescurel

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan passed away peacefully on the evening of June 18, 2009, surrounded by his family and close disciples. He was 87 years old and had been suffering from kidney disease for several years. Khansahib’s long life and career spanned epochs and continents. He was one of the last “court musicians” of the old India and was the first Indian musician to record in the West. Yehudi Menuhin, who invited him to perform and record in the USA in 1955, called him “an absolute genius – perhaps the greatest musician in the world.” Ali Akbar Khan was the only son of Allauddin Khan, a legendary musician who revolutionized Indian instrumental music and trained some of India’s most renowned musicians, including his son and Ravi Shankar. His training was extremely rigorous, and he sometimes had to practice up to 18 hours a day. His concert debut at the All […]

Ali Akbar College of Music – Switzerland, 23. Jährliches Seminar in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Studio für Musik der Kulturen der Musik-Akademie Basel Swapan Chaudhuri und Ken Zuckerman mit Daniel Bradley und Henry Nagelberg Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, Schweiz 12. – 19. November 2008 Das 23. jährliche Seminar des Ali Akbar College umfasst folgende Lektionen:

September 7, 2008 19.00 Salon de Musique, Birmannsgasse 42 Jeffrey Werbock – Musik aus Azerbaijan Jeffrey Werbock wird am Sonntag, den 7. September um 19.00 Uhr im Salon de Musique einen Abend der instrumentellen Soloimprovisation presentieren. Seine Musik basiert auf traditionellem Mugham aus Azerbaijan, gespielt auf dem Oud (kurzhalsige Laute aus Holz), dem Tar (langhalsige Laute aus Haut) und dem Kamanche (Speichengeige aus Haut). Mugham aus Azerbaijan ist eine Form der einstimmigen, modalen Musik, ausgesprochen microtonal, unmetrisch und dicht verziert. Nach östlichen Traditionen der Themenvariation baut die Musik auf komplexen, teilweise improvisierten Melodielinien und übermittelt eine Mischung von Gefühlen wie Trauer und Freude, Ãœbermut und Leid. Herr Werbock gibt seit über dreissig Jahren Konzerte unter anderem im Lincoln Center (New York), im Metropolitan Museum of Art, dem American Museum of Natural History, Asia Society und dem World Music Institute und referiert ausserdem im ganzen englischsprachigen Raum. Das Nationale Musikkonservatorium von […]