Roopa Panesar Trio - Diwali concert

Name: Roopa Panesar Trio - Diwali concert
Start: 2025-10-18T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Leicester Cathedral

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Leicester Cathedral | Leicester, EN

For this home-coming concert, at the start of the Diwali celebrations, Roopa will be accompanied by Gurdain Rayatt on tabla, and Bangalore Prakash on Carnatic percussion for a unique presentation of Indian classical music.
The first half of the concert is sitar and tabla in the more traditional style. In the second half Roopa will invite Prakash ji to add Carnatic percussion and then present shorter pieces with the textures of tabla and Carnatic percussion and some light electroacoustics.
Being raised in Leicester afforded Roopa Panesar the opportunity to learn sitar from an early age. At the age of seven, Roopa’s lifelong journey with renowned educationalist and leading UK musician Ustad Dharambir Singh ji MBE started, and she was quickly recognized as a talent for the future. She remains with her musical guru to this day.
Gurdain Rayatt is one of the leading tabla players in Europe, who excels both within the classical tradition, as well as a versatile and expressive musician in cross-cultural, folk and world music projects.
Bangalore Prakash is a popular mridangam and ghatam artist performing globally, with many Carnatic concerts relying on his flawless ghatam accompaniment. Although his expertise is in Indian classical music, he is versatile, adventurous and open minded.