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Sunday, May 19, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dabney Hall, Lounge

Sitar and Tabla Recital

Sitar and Tabla Recital by Srinivas Reddy and Ferhan Qureshi

We invite you to an evening of traditional Indian music by our guest artists Srinivas Reddy and Ferhan Quereshi.

About the artist:

In 2011 Srinivas graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies. Under the guidance of Professor George Hart he studied Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions and completed his thesis on the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya and his Telugu epic Amuktamalyada.

Srinivas has published numerous scholarly articles and four books: Giver of the Worn Garland (Penguin 2010), The Dancer and the King (Penguin 2014), The Cloud Message (2017) and RAYA (Juggernaut 2020). His current book project is an Anthology of Classical India Literature with Bloomsbury Publishing.

Srinivas is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemplative Studies at Brown University and Guest Professor at IIT Gandhinagar.

For more information, please contact Hyesung Park by phone at 626-808-2641 or by email at hschoe@caltech.edu.