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Uwe Neumann, Sitar and Sansa, has lived and studied full time
for 10 years in India with the sitarmaestro Pandit Indranil Bhattacharya
and received a Bachelors and Master-of-Music Degree on Sitar from
Indian University in Shantiniketan.
He had studied classical guitar and jazz-rock in Germany 1974-86.
He founded Ragleela in 1990 and had many classical, world-music
and television concerts all over India, including a unique performance
at the Millennium-Concert for H.H. the Dalai Lama in Benares,
at the Alliance Francaise in Pondicherry, at the Sri Aurobindo
Institute of Culture with tabla virtuoso Subhen Chatterjee and
in the prestigious hall Rabindra-Sadan in Calcutta.
Uwe Neumann arrived in Canada in the year 2000 to share the treasures
of this music and gave since then more than 200 concerts with
Ragleela, Sitaria and other world music projects like at the Festival
Musique Multi Montréal with Radio-Canada recording, Festival
"Rhythms of the World" Victoriaville, International
Jazz Festival in Montreal with NoEMI, Diversity and Starbelly
Festivals in BC with Adham Shaikh, East-meets-West Concert Series
at Concordia University, International Jazz Festival in Quebec
with NoEMI, Asian Heritage Festival 2002,03,04,05, Performances
with tabla virtuoso Partha Sarathi Mukherjee and Kathak-dancer
Akram Khan, Salle La Basoche in Gatineau. more
Bio of Shankar Das
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