• country:
  India
• region or city:
  Orient
• style(s):
  Classical Indian
• label:
  Harmonia mundi
• artist submitted by:
  GDS Promotions

KEN ZUCKERMAN is internationally acclaimed as one of the finest sarod virtuosos performing today. He has completed thirty years of training under the rigorous discipline of India's legendary sarodist, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and has performed with Maestro Khan in numerous concerts in Europe, India, and the United States. Mr. Zuckerman performs classical Indian music all over the world with some of India's finest tabla virtuosos, including Swapan Chaudhuri, Zakir Hussain and Anindo Chatterjee.

Ken Zuckermans' thorough training in both western and eastern music performance, composition and improvisation, has also enabled him to participate in a wide range of both classical and experimental ensembles. He has been featured in Hesperion XXI's Grammy Award nominated CD Diaspora Sephardic, and has taken part on various cultural crossover projects, including India Meets Persia, with Hossein Alizadeh, Madjid Khaladj and Swapan Chaudhuri, Modal Tapestry, a Zuckerman composition for an ensemble of 14 musicians from western and eastern traditions, and A Meeting of Souls, with the well known medieval singer Dominique Vellard. In addition his latest Project "Lutes of the World" was premiered in Feb'06 at the Southbank Centre London and was highly successful. Plans are to release a CD "Lutes of the World@ in 2006.

In addition to his extensive performance schedule, Ken Zuckerman directs the Ali Akbar College of Music in Switzerland and is also a teacher at the Music Academy of Basel, where he conducts courses in both North Indian classical music at the Konservatorium and the music of the Middle Ages at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Links

• Ken Zuckerman Website