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Mumbai (India) based Star Tabla virtuoso & Percussionist Anuradha
Pal is an internationally highly acclaimed popular Tabla
soloist and versatile accompanist with top Indian classical, African,
Jazz & World musicians in major festivals in U.K, USA, Europe,
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok &
Africa.
Excellent training from Tabla legends Ustads Alla Rakha & Zakir
Hussain, dedicated riyaaz (practice), & incredible support from
her parents Devinder & Ila Pal & husband Shyam Sharma, have
established Anuradha Pal as one of the ‘30
leading Women of India’ & ‘a percussionist par excellence’(according
to the India Today 2006)
Clarity, tonal balance, pinpoint precision in rhythm & an amazing
repertoire spiced with spontaneous creativity have made Anuradha
Pal ‘the most influential female musician
of Indian classical music’ according to the A. V Max
Music Magazine, May 2001.
Anuradha Pal is the founder & music director of two distinct
Fusion bands-
- Stree Shakti’ is Asia’s
much acclaimed, all female percussion-based, instrumental and
vocal fusion ensemble whereas
- ‘Recharge’ is a unique
World music fusion group combining various elements of Indian,
African, Latin and Jazz music.
Anuradha composed the background score in ‘Gaja
Gamini’ 0the acclaimed M.F Husain film, which won tremendous
acclaim in the Cannes Film Festival. She regularly scores music
for music albums, theatre & documentaries. |
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Anuradha Pal performed solo and with her fusion
band ‘Recharge’ in the World famous Woodstock
festival in Europe in Aug 2008 to a huge audience of
4 lakh listeners. Anuradha Pal’s Recharge was the only
Indian band to perform at Woodstock festival 2008, which has
featured legends like Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Alla Rakha &
Zakir Hussain in the past. |
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Anuradha is the Only
Indian woman musician & the youngest Indian musician
to perform in the world renowned WOMAD festival in UK to an
audience of 1.5 lakh people in 1999. |
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Anuradha holds the unique distinction of performing
Tabla solos for dignitaries like
the Queen Elizabeth of England, the honourable Prime Minister
& President of India. |
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Awarded the highest cultural award ‘Sanskrutic
Puraskar’, by Maharashtra State in 2006 & the
‘Zee Astitva Award’
for musical excellence in 2007. |
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Brand ambassador-
acted in a special film by UNICEF
to promote female education & achievement. |
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Represented India
in the ‘Asian Performers Summit’
in Japan & at the Commonwealth Games Festival, U.K. |
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Lauded by the prestigious Encyclopedia
Britannica, Asian-American/ Indo American Who’s
who journal for ‘her well balanced
musicianship & pioneering contribution as a trail blazer
and trend setter for societies around the world’. |
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‘The Youth icon’
& ‘Woman of Substance’ in corporate launches
of Mercedes Benz, Siemens, Tanishq, CNBC TV 18, Crisil, Wizcraft,
Fountainhead events amongst several others all over the world. |
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Major contributor
in research of the ‘Relationship between the Brain,
Music & Language’ at the Neurosciences
university of San Diego & the ‘Study of Tabla,
Aesthetics & its complexities’
at Harvard University, USA. |
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| Prestigious Performances in
India |
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Sangeet Natak Academy (
Delhi, Kota, Imphal) |
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Sangeet Research Academy
( Bombay, Allahabad, Kolkatta) |
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Ajanta- Ellora festival, (
Aurangabad) , Elephanta & Banganga Festival , MTDC Festival,
Siddhi Vinayak Fusion festival, IIT Mood Indigo ( Mumbai) &
Ganesh Festival, Tabla Samaroh ( Pune) |
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IIT Mood Indigo
(Mumbai) & Siddhi
Vinayak Fusion festival North/ South/ West/ East Zonal centres
( Nagpur, Chennai, Bangalore, Udaipur,
Amritsar, Jallundhar, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Hyderabad etc) |
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Spirit of Unity concerts
( Delhi, Puttapurthi, Vishakapatanam) |
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Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan
( Jallundhar) |
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Sankatmochan Festival (
Varanasi) |
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Baba Allaudin Khan Sangeet Samaroh
( Maihar) |
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Mahakaleshwar Samaroh (
Ujjain) & Tansen Samaroh ( Gwalior) |
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Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad
( Indore, Bhopal,Gwalior, Dewas, Ujjain) |
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Bhopal Utsav, Bharat Bhawan. |
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Vishnu Digamber Jayanti Samaroh
(New Delhi) |
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Malleshwaram Sangeet Sabha &
Chauddiya Hall (Bangalore), Carnatica
festival (Chennai) |
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Doordarshan Award Nites & Akashwani
Sangeet Sammelans |
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NCPA, Nehru Center, Spicmacay, Pancham
Nishad etc amongst numerous others. |
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| Major International Performances- |
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IN U.K - WOMAD ( World of
Music & Dance festival) |
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World Premier of the Commonwealth Games (Manchester) |
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Bath International Music festival & the City
of London Festival at the prestigious Barbican
Hall. |
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Rhythm Sticks (Queen Elizabeth
Hall) & BBC Music Live
festival ( Scotland) |
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Greenwich & Docklands Festival, Cardiff Jazz festival,
Asian Music festival amongst several other venues in UK
on tours with prominent artists. |
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In USA - Masters of Indian
Music festival, Young Music Wizards of India, Ali Akbar Khan
festival, Basant Bahar Festival (SFO), Asia Society (N.Y &
SFO), MITHAS, Berkeley School of Music, Learnquest Music Festival
(Boston) |
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Workshops/ lecture- demonstrations at prestigious universities
like Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Johns
Hopkins Institute. |
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Artist in residence at the prestigious New
England Conservatory, Boston to teach percussion to Percussion
major students in September 2006. |
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In Japan - Tokyo Music Festival,
Phoenix Music festival, Japan Music Festival etc. |
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In Europe -The world famous
Woodstock festival (Poland), Voices of the world festival (Denmark),
Sangam Indian Music Festival (Germany), Museum Rietberg (Zurich)
amongst others. |
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In Australia - Bellingen
Global Festival, Carnivalli Festival, Melba Conservatory of
music, Queensland Performing arts complex |
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Rest of the world - In the
Bangkok International Music festival, Hong Kong, Victoria Arts
Hall in Singapore, New Zealand & for the CHOGM summit in
Africa amongst numerous other concerts all over the world. |
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| International Media Appreciation
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Anuradha has received tremendous appreciation
& media acclaim in the Press, Radio and TV channels across
the globe. |
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Featured on Polish TV’s major European
channel as a great achiever &
Indian musician in 2008. |
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Featured Anuradha in film by Doordarshan National
Archives titled 'Woman of Substance'
in 2006. |
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Documentary 'All about
her’ on the Times now channel in 2004. |
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'Adventure Divas'
by USA based Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) made a film titled
featuring Anuradha Pal as one of the great women achievers of
India and the World in 2001. |
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In 1999, the BBC World Service recorded her group
‘Stree Shakti’s’ memorable concert at the
world famous WOMAD festival in Reading, UK where she had the
packed audience of 1.5 lakh begging for more! This
recording was shown by BBC T.V in 56 countries. |
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Anuradha was featured in the documentary titled
'Aaj ki Nari’ by the
Films Division of India in 1999. |
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BBC Radio World Service Program as one of the 'Five
Prominent Women Musicians of India' in 1991. |
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Featured extensively on
NPR, Asia TV (USA), Radio 3, Sunrise Radio. (U.K), ITV, Australian
T.V & Radio channels like ABC, SBC and 3LO, Japanese TV-
Radio channels & all Indian TV & Radio channels like
Doordarshan, Star TV, Zee, Times TV, NDTV, Aaj Tak, CPC, Alpha,
ETC, Surya T.V, ETV etc. |
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| International Collaborations
& Versatility : |
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Anuradha is the founder- musical director of
the much acclaimed group Stree Shakti,
India's only all female percussion based instrumental and vocal
fusion group which has performed extensively in very prestigious
festivals in India & UK. |
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Anuradha has also extensively collaborated with
musicians of other cultures like the Pan African Orchestra of
Ghana in 'Africa & India in conversation', Japanese musicians,
Jazz & even Rajasthani Folk musicians, recently even creating
new groups like 'Energy' ( Indo- Jazz Fusion) and 'Kala Siddhi'
( Fusion of Carnatic, Jazz, Rajasthani & Hindustani styles
of music) |
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Anuradha composed & performed the entire
background score using only Tabla & mouth percussion in
‘ Gaja- Gamini ‘ the much acclaimed film by celebrated
painter, M. F Husain. The background score was extremely appreciated
especially in International film festivals like Cannes, Big
Bear etc. |
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Anuradha has directed music for commercial music
albums like 'Nirvana’ and ‘Stree Shakti’ which
has been highly appreciated. |
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Anuradha has good selling music albums like 'Sheer Magic’,
'Anu’- A Tabla solo', ‘Sensational’, ‘Jugalbandi’
etc featuring her as a Tabla soloist and accompanist, released
both in India and abroad. |
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