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Photo credit: Paul Joseph ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND MASTERS OF PERCUSSION Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7PM PDT CAP UCLA Online channel
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CAP UCLA Presents ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND MASTERS OF PERCUSSION Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7PM PDT CAP UCLA Online channel Approximate run time: 70 minutes, no intermission
MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER Every other year since 1996, Zakir Hussain has served as curator, conductor and producer, bringing the very cream of Indian music to tour America and Europe with his series, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, Masters of Percussion began as a platform for both popular and rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. While performing and collaborating in India for a few months every year, Zakir has sought and unearthed lesser known folk and classical traditions which feed into the greater stream of Indian music, playing an educational role in affording them greater visibility, as well as introducing them to audiences in the West. Over time, the constantly changing ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions, including jazz. All of it creates a truly beautiful field from which he can bring Masters of Percussion to the West. The 2021 version will be no exception, presenting American audiences with extraordinary, exciting and spontaneous combinations of percussive as well as melodic performances. Maestro Hussain comments, “MOP 2021 features master drummers from Uzbekistan, Iran, India and the USA. Abbos Kosimov is a master of the Uzbek frame drum known as the doyra. Pezhham Akhavass is an acclaimed exponent of the tombek and the Iranian frame drum, daf. I represent the traditional rhythm repertoire of north India on tabla and Marcus Gilmore is the most talked about young jazz drummer of our time.” “Indian, Uzbek and Iranian rhythm traditions have common routes; the technique and the repertoire of these three ancient traditions can be interchangeable. The above four genres could easily be recognized as cousins, with the salient unifying feature in all of them being improvisation. Every MOP tour performance is a casting off into the unknown, but 2021 is exceptional in that regard. We will be operating in new musical territories—every moment of every night.” Masters of Percussion 2021 will feature Zakir Hussain (Tabla); Abbos Kosimov (Doyra); Marcus Gilmore (Drumset); Pezhham Akhavass (Tombak and Daf).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso
of our time, Zakir Hussain is appreciated
both in the field of percussion and in the
music world at large as an international
phenomenon and one of the world’s
most esteemed and influential musicians.
The foremost disciple of his father, the
legendary Ustad Allarakha, Zakir was a
child prodigy who began his professional
career at the age of twelve, accompanying
India’s greatest classical musicians and
dancers and touring internationally with
great success by the age of eighteen. His
brilliant accompaniment, solo performance
and genre-defying collaborations, including his pioneering work to develop
a dialogue between North and South Indian musicians, have elevated the
status of his instrument both in India and globally. He has continued the work
begun a generation earlier by his father and thereby brought the tabla into a
new dimension of renown and appreciation.
Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music
movement, Zakir’s contribution has been unique, with many historic and
groundbreaking collaborations, including Shakti, Remember Shakti, Masters
of Percussion, Planet Drum and Global Drum Project with Mickey Hart, Tabla
Beat Science and Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, CrossCurrents
with DaveHolland and Chris Potter, in trio with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer,
and in quartet with Herbie Hancock.
As a composer, he has scored music for numerous feature films, major events
and productions. He has composed three concertos, and his third, the first-
ever concerto for tabla and orchestra, was premiered in India in September,
2015, by the Symphony Orchestra of India, premiered in Europe and the UK
in 2016, and in the USA in April, 2017, by the National Symphony Orchestra
at the Kennedy Center. A Grammy award winner, Zakir is the recipient of
countless awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award, the USA’s National Heritage Fellowship and Officier in
France’s Order of Arts andLetters. Voted “Best Percussionist” by both the
Downbeat Critics’ Poll and Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll over several
years including 2020, Zakir was honored in 2018 by the Montreal Jazz Festival
with their Antonio Carlos Jobim Award. In 2019, Zakir was named a Sangeet
Natak Akademi Fellow and received two honorary doctorates, one from
Berklee College of Music and the other from Indira Kala Sangit University in
Khairagarh, India.
As an educator, he conducts many workshops and lectures each year, has
been in residence at Princeton University and Stanford University, and, in
2015, was appointed Regents Lecturer at UC Berkeley. His yearly workshop in
the San Francisco Bay Area, conducted for the past 30 years, has become a
widely anticipated event for performers and serious students of tabla. He is
the founderand president of Moment Records, an independent record label
presenting rare live recordings of Indian classical music and world music. Zakir
was resident artistic director at SFJazz from 2013 until 2016, and was honored
with SF Jazz’s Lifetime Achievement Award on January 18, 2017, in recognition
of his “unparalleled contribution to the world of music”.
Abbos Kosimov is recognized globally as
a master of doyra and an ambassador of
Uzbek culture. He was born in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, to a highly musical family
and studied at the College of Culture and
Music and under doyra master Mamurjon
Vahabov, graduating in 1984. He also
trained from the age of ten with Ustad
Tuychi Inagomov, one of the few honored
artists officially recognized by the Uzbek
head of state. In 1991, Abbos won second
prize in Central Asia and Kazakhstan’s
Competition of Percussive Instruments.
He has recorded independently as well as with Stevie Wonder, with Zakir
Hussain and Masters of Percussion and for the soundtrack of Alonzo King’s
Lines Ballet piece “Scheherazade,” which premiered in Monte Carlo in
November 2009. In March 2010, Abbos performed at Carnegie Hall with the
Kronos Quartet. He has worked with Dohee Lee, Homayoun Sakhi and the
Alim Qasimov Ensemble, Omar Sosa, Giovanni Hidalgo, Terry Bozzio, Swapan
Chaudhuri, Steve Smith, the Hand Ensemble, Adam Rudolph, and other
leading musicians.
Multi-Grammy Award-winning drummer/
composer Marcus Gilmore is one of the
most gifted jazz prodigies on the scene
today. The grandson of the master jazz
drummer Roy Haynes, Marcus graduated
from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and
subsequently received full scholarships to
both the Juilliard School and Manhattan
School of Music. In addition, Marcus has
embarked on studying and incorporating
ideas and techniques from many folk
rhythms of Africa and the diaspora, while
cultivaing an encyclopedic knowledge of
the history of jazz, funk, gospel and soul drummers as well as the rhythmic
sensibilities of contemporary producers in hip-hop and electronic music.
He has been touring since he was sixteen, and has performed with a large
selection of the best and best-known contemporary jazz players, including
the late Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, Savion Glover, Pat Metheny, Gonzalo
Rubalcaba, Nicholas Payton, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Ambrose Akinmusire,
Wadada Leo Smith, Cassandra Wilson, Bilal, Talib Kweli, Queen Latifah, Black
Thought, Esperanza Spalding and Roy Hargrove. He pursues solo projects with
his bands Actions Speak and Silhouwav.
Among his honors was being introduced as one of the “25 for the Future” by
DownBeat magazine in 2016. He won a Latin Grammy for his work with Chick
Corea and was also featured on the cover of the June 2019 issue of Modern
Drummer. In 2020, he performed his first orchestral composition, “Pulse,” with
members of the Cape Town Philharmonic as part of the 2018 - 2019 Annual
Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative for which Zakir Hussain was his
mentor.
Besides his illustrious grandfather, he cites as major musical influences Tony
Williams’s group Lifetime, Elvin Jones’s album Speak No Evil, and the work
of free jazz drummer Milford Graves. Marcus’ playing is unique, a melodic
language of fine shadings and gradations, eliciting optimal tone and
vibrations from his instrument.Pezhham Akhavass is a percussionist/
multi-instrumentalist/ music director,
master of tombak (a type of goblet drum
from Persia) and daf (the frame drum).
Pezhham was born in Iran and began his
percussion studies at the age of five with
Ostad Naser Farhanghfar, and soon after
with Saeid Roudbary. Pezhham developed
a remarkable ability to grasp the technical
aspects of the tombak and simultaneously
bring a new approach to rhythm, and this
unique gift has made him one of the most
distinguished musicians of his generation.
After earning a Bachelor’s degree in music from Sureh University in Tehran,
he earned a second Bachelor’s and a Master’s from San Francisco State
University. He has also studied tabla with Zakir Hussain.
From 2001 to 2007 he toured around the world with the renowned vocalist
Shahram Nazeri, with shows ranging from Iran to Australia, the U.S. and
Europe, including such prestigious music festivals as the Festival del Popolo
in Italy, Théâtre de la Ville and Théâtre du Soleil in Paris, and the Fes Festival
in Morocco. In 2008, he was a guest artist with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road
Ensemble at the Hollywood Bowl.
In 2010 he was the featured percussionist of the Masters of Persian Music
Tour across the U.S., and in the years since he has continued touring and
performing at major festivals, including the Pan Asian Music Festival.
He is also the Global Music Director for Iran of the San Francisco World
Music Festival. The pandemic brought him an invitation from the Stanford
Livestream Project at the behest of Zakir Hussain to take part in the “The
Stitches That Bind Us,” which united him with Zakir and Abbos Kosimov.2020-21 Season Calendar
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