Writing together a Franco-Indian adventure
Some write travel diaries. As far as Thierry Pécou is concerned, his wanderings turn into musical scores.
Sangata means sheer connivance. This word of Sanskrit origin reflects what took place on stage in 2019. Three distinguished young Indian artists, Rishab Prasanna, Bansuri flute, Ragini Shankar, Indian violin, Amaan Ali, tabla, and Thierry Pécou, accompanied by two of his Ensemble Variances musicians, Anne Cartel, flute, and Carjez Gerretsen, clarinet, embarked on an intercultural musical dialogue of great depth and sheer joy marked by fusion and dialogue between Hindustani classical music and Thierry Pécou’s writing.
Not only is the enthusiastic audience captivated and moved by the soft and enticing moods, the exhilarating moments created by the rhythm of the tabla, a blend of impromptu sequences and portions as established in Thierry Pécou’s music score, but the enthused artists themselves feel there is still much more to come.
Sangata#2 or the step forward
Sangata#2 or the step forward that leads to a truly joint creation by Thierry Pécou and Rishab Prasanna. The young Bansuri flutist, who comes from a Hindu family from Benares boasting of six generations of musicians, and was recently hailed in the press as ‘A radiant flute all the way from India’ (La Croix, July 2019), will be combining his creativity with Thierry Pécou’s creativity, to give rise to a music that will be undoubtedly stunning, undoubtedly humanistic, but which, above all, will be pervaded by the friendship that binds the French and Indian musicians. This program will be a concert-length unique creation, a moment where the present shall become a present of sharing.
Duo Sangata
Two magicians with a bansuri flute and a clarinet as their batons: Rishab Prasanna and Carjez Gerretsen, both as intense in the expression of their virtuosity as in the evocation of a note suspended in silence...
This encounter between orality and writing, modality and harmony, horizontality and verticality, takes you on a musical journey and offers an alternative approach where emotion is the only guide.
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The cast
Guest artistsRagini Shankar violin |
Ensemble Variances
Anne Cartel flute |
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Co-production Alliance Française de Delhi / Ensemble Variances / Kalasetu.