Jun 11 2022 to Jun 11 2022 7 p.m.

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Where

Natakvalas

75 17th E Main Rd, 6th Block, Koramangala 560095

Event Description

Reya's Ensemble fuses Jazz & Hindustani Classical in their own rich and groovy renditions. Reya’s Ensemble has performed at the notable TV Show- Music Mojo Season 4 and has produced some quality experimental music with over millions views on YouTube. Reya's Ensemble collaborates with some fine musicians all over the country and has been creating some amazing experimental music over the last 6 years in the field of Jazz Funk Lyrical ballads & Ghazals. About the members: Reya Kundu (Vocalist): Music has been the ultimate form of expression for Reya since childhood and thus considers herself to be an artist who emote through music. She has been training in Hindustani Classical music for the last 15 years under the guidance of her guru Acharya Jayanta Bose. She has a deep inclination towards western music mainly in Jazz Funk R&B Soul and Operatic and effortlessly blends into all the genres and disciplines. She has performed in a lot of noted experimental concerts such as Vocal Symphony Bengali Qawali Music-o-Mime Bengali Operatic and East- West. She has also performed at The Jazz Bar Edinburgh and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017. Reya is also a playback singer for which she has also been nominated at the Mirchi Music Awards Bangla twice for the film “Aami Aar Amaar Girlfriends” & “ Bhagsesh”. She is also the front woman of The A.R Rahman Funk Collective that produces famous A.R Rahman songs in their own interesting way which mainly has Funk & Jazz influences with rich harmonies and different interesting grooves. Varsha Sastry (Pianist): Varsha is a Bangalore based pianist with a Licentiate Diploma in Western Classical Piano Performance. She studied for several years under renowned concert pianist Neecia Majolly. She has performed at the Young Performers Concert series in 2012 and was a semi-finalist at the National level Piano competition Con Brio 2016. She also performed from time to time with various bands at different venues including The Hard Rock Cafe and as a lounge pianist at The Sheraton. In the last few years she has been exploring Jazz and Contemporary styles of composition and improvisation under the tutelage of pianist/composer Aman Mahajan. She also loves teaching the piano and has been doing so for 10 years now. Abhay Nayampally (Carnatic Guitar): Born in Kerala South India and brought up in Mumbai Abhay has grown up with music in his family and his blood. He took a fancy to the Guitar around his early teens and has never looked back since. Starting with Western genres such as Jazz and Blues and being influenced by artists like John McLaughlin Django Reinhardt Joe Pass and B.B.King he developed a keen sense of hearing and playing moulding his own unique expression and texture on the guitar and quickly building a reputation for himself within the music circles in Mumbai and around. A couple of years after exploring the guitar through jazz and blues Abhay felt the need to explore an as yet rarely visited genre on the guitar South Indian Classical music (also known as Carnatic Classical). Being an extremely difficult art form to explore on a predominantly Western instrument not designed for the rigours of Indian Classical Abhay took it upon himself to challenge established norms and develop a new unique and extremely expressive and vigorous style of Carnatic Music on the guitar. It was around this time that Abhay met his Guru and Mentor the legendary Mandolin Maestro Vidwan U Srinivas under whose guidance Abhay cemented his new style of playing and developed it into a polished and fine art form unique to the electric guitar. He is now currently the only Carnatic Guitar Artiste in the world performing and teaching the U Srinivas Bani (style) of playing on the electric guitar.