Jan 04 2025 to Jan 04 2025 11 a.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Igino Giovanni Brunori and Virginia Nicoli of Samvad are an innovative musical duo crafting new sounds from ancient materials. Their performances are journeys through a rich landscape of melody and rhythm, using bansuri (Indian bamboo flute), silver flute, saxophone and voice.

Thanks to their teachers, the Gundecha Brothers, they have forged their own musical language in which Raga (melodic frames of indian classical music) and tala (rhythm cycles) remain the core features. In this sense, their music is less of a fusion and more of a dynamic expression of these traditional principles.

Samvad means to ‘speak together’ or ‘accord’ in Sanskrit. There is much accord between the art and life of Igino and Virginia. Music brought them together and continues to be the driving force in their lives. Their shared passions give a special tone to their sonic creations, at once deeply connected to ancient traditions and still pulsing with the present.

The exceptional quality of Samvad’s music derives from their attention to sound quality, to micro-tonal detail and to the mysterious dialogue between the two. East and West, ancient music and contemporary sounds meet in a new interpretation of tradition and modernity.
Artistes
Virginia Nicoli & Igino Giovanni Brunori
Music Duo

Virginia & Igino have both studied western classical music in Italy since childhood.

They met each other in 2006 through music and began their musical journey towards India.

In 2010 they graduated together from the Conservatorium “Arrigo Pedrollo” of Vicenzia in “tradizioni musicali extraeuropei ad indirizzo indologico” with the award for most outstanding graduates. They presented their final thesis after extensive research in India interviewing great musicians and musicologists.

In Italy they studied with the great maestro of Indian classical music Gianni Richizzi, who dedicated over thirty years of his life to the study and teaching of Indian Classical Music. They also participated in many workshops with great maestros such as Hariprasad Chaurasia.

Since 2008 they spend 6 months a year in India studying Dhrupad with the Gundecha Brothers in Bhopal and Bansuri flute with Rajendra Prasanna in Delhi.

From 2012 they started performing with their Guru’s the Gundecha Brothers performing in many of the biggest Indian Classical Music festivals of India such as Saptak festival in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru Habba in Bengalore and recently in Sawai Gandharva in Pune, and Doverlane Music Conference in Kolkatta.

Samvad are active with performances all over the world , in India, Europe, America, Canada, with their duo Samvad and in different classical and contemporary collaborations. They also opened a school in Italy to teach Indian classical music and to host workshops of different masters.
Roman Das
Pakhawaj

Roman Das is a visionary performer; and an artiste with a difference. He is primarily a Pakhawaj artiste, who has mastered the craft for over a decade.

While Roman is counted amongst the most multidimensional and accomplished young Pakhawaj exponents of India today, he is an ever-evolving artist and constantly strives to expand his skill set. This has led him to extend his exploration of other percussion instruments, undeterred by the restrictions of genre and school.

Roman is constantly working at expanding the genre by blending a variety of schools of thought like the Hindustani, Carnatic, Western and Indigenous taal system.