Running in counterpoint with this year’s featured juxtaposition of Vivaldi’s Venice with the neighbouring Ottoman empire is a cross-cultural look at Hindustani vocal stylings marked by virtuoso rhythmic interplay. The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, following last season’s 100th birthday tribute to composer György Ligeti, joins forces with the Padmabhushan Ustad Mushtaq Husain Khan Association, Hong Kong’s premier Indian arts organisation, in presenting six short performances at Tai Kwun’s Laundry Steps. Three concerts feature Hong Kong-based father-and-son vocalists Ghulam Siraj and Mehdi Hasan as well as Najmi Khan, all esteemed practitioners of Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, a vocal style tracing its lineage back 400 years to the reign of the Mogul emperor Akbar. Three additional concerts will pair Shehzad Khan, an accomplished Bollywood musical figure, with Indian instrumentalists and members of the HKNME to create a singular fusion of Indian, Chinese and Western Classical traditions.

Programme

05.12.2024 (Thu) 6pm-6:30pm Indian Vocal Performance by Najmi Khan

07.12.2024 (Sat) 5pm-5.30pm Fusion Performance by HKNME with Sitar, Tabla and Harmonium

08.12.2024 (Sun) 1pm-1.30pm Fusion Performance by HKNME with Sitar and Tabla

08.12.2024 (Sun) 5pm-5:30pm Indian Vocal Performance by Mehdi Hasan

09.12.2024 (Mon) 6pm-6.30pm Fusion Performance by HKNME with Tabla and Harmonium

15.12.2024 (Sun) 5pm-5:30pm Indian Vocal Performance by Ghulam Siraj

https://www.taikwun.hk/en/programme/detail/prison-yard-festival/1464