The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), in association with Citigroup, launched Indian classical music festival Aadi Anant: From Here to Eternity in 2012. The multi-city travelling festival showcases celebrated gurus (teachers) performing with their shishyas (students), as a testimony to the age-old guru-shishya tradition.
Previous editions of the festival, the flagship edition of which is held in Mumbai at the NCPA, have been held in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad. It has featured performances by such renowned teacher-student pairs as singers Ajoy Chakrabarty and Kaushiki Chakrabarty, sarod players Amjad Ali Khan with Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, and santoor players Shiv Kumar Sharma and Rahul Sharma. Vocalist Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and sitar player Shujaat Khan are among the other stars to have regularly performed at the event. Most instalments have included at least one recital by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain who has performed with his students as well as with Indian and international contemporaries and collaborators in a variety of concert formats.
The Mumbai leg of the twelfth edition of Aadi Anant in 2022 featured Hussain, who performed both solo and with sitar player Niladri Kumar (on Saturday, 10 December 2022); a collaboration between violin player Ambi Subramanian, flautist Shashank Subramanyam, kanjira player Selva Ganesh and Norwegian tuba player Øystein Baadsvik; and concerts by two student-teacher pairs (on Saturday, 17 December 2022). Karnatik classical vocalists Bombay Jayashri Ramnath and her son Amrit Ramnath performed both individually and together (on Saturday, 07 January 2023); and singer Shankar Mahadevan and his sons Siddharth and Shivam Mahadevan presented a show spanning multiple genres (on Sunday, 08 January 2023).
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