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Friday, October 9, 2026
Fri
9
OCT
Featuring
Niladri Kumar
View ProfileNiladri Kumar is an Indian sitar player and composer from a five-generation lineage of sitarists. Rooted in the Maihar gharana, he trained under his father Pandit Kartick Kumar, a prominent disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, and is known for inventing the zitar, an electric sitar variant.
Niladri Kumar: The Space Between the Notes (Austin)
Sitarist Niladri Kumar performs in Austin, accompanied by Satyajit Talwalkar, Sambit Chatterjee and Agnelo Fernandes.
Show Time
Fri, Oct 9 · 7:30 PM
Venue
The Austin Stone Northwest
9001 N FM 620, Austin, TX 78726
About this concert
The concert draws on a live album Kumar recorded in Mumbai with tabla player Zakir Hussain shortly before Hussain's death; the tour is conceived as a tribute to that partnership. Kumar plays sitar and the zitar, a five-string electric instrument of his own design, with Talwalkar on tabla, Chatterjee on drums and Fernandes on keyboards.