Sangam

An unique collaboration between Sitar and Lute representing the confluence of oriental and occidental music by Lute, Sitar & Tabla by maestros Emilio Bezzi from Italy and Rohan Dasgupta from India and Pt.Udai Mazumdar from India.

Renaissance and Indian classical music, blended together into an amazing story of a nobleman from Venice traveling to India for spice and jewels trading, meeting sitar and tabla musicians into a Mughal palace, and making together fusion music, centuries before the "West meets East" of Shankar and Menuhin.

Emilio Bezzi - Lute

Emilio was born in Milan in 1982. He approached the Music at the age of eleven years old first with the clarinet and the year after with the guitar as the possibility to make concurrently more sounds deeply affected him. He passed by his own through different musical genres which the basic of the language is improvisation: from Hendrix Rock, passing through Jazz Music, he reached Bossa Nova and then started to play the guitar with fingers. As a reflection of any musical feelings, the direct touch of the strings became his elective way to express the Music and in 1999 he started to study Western Classical Music.

Udhai Mazumdar - Tabla

On the precincts of percussion and maxims of melody a name, it seems, has come to stay. A name which is now creating melodic and rhythmic raptures in uncounted musical concerts all over the globe is Udhai Mazumdar. Udhai hails from a family of musicians and fine artistes of Allahabad. A versatile tabla player of the Benares Gharana, and also a composer of great finesse. Udhai shifted to Delhi to further his musical experience and became the disciple of the world-renowned Sitar Maestro, Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar, lived with him and learnt the art of Tabla accompaniment.