Soumik Datta

Following a tour through the UK and India, sarod virtuoso Soumik Datta will touch down for an intimate concert in the Recital Hall. With his roots firmly in traditional Indian music, he strives to maintain this ancient musical heritage while bringing the universal and personal values expressed in the music into the now. His new performance, Mone Rekho (‘remembering’), will stimulate your imagination. This concert is presented in part by DesiYUP.

Soumik Datta

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Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Concertgebouwplein 10

1071 LN Amsterdam

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Soumik Datta

Soumik Datta is an absolute master on the sarod, a 19-string fretless lute. He is also a versatile composer, producer, band leader, TV presenter and artistic director of the Soumik Datta Arts charity. On the one hand, Soumik Datta is firmly rooted in traditional (Indian) music and strives to preserve centuries-old musical heritage. On the other hand, he uses contemporary art forms to expose and tackle the pressing problems of our time in a current way. He believes music can serve as a 'cultural anchor', strengthening the sense of community, identity and heritage and reaching people from different backgrounds in powerful ways. In recent years, Soumik has become even more known through the legendary artists and ensembles he has collaborated with, such as Beyonce, Jay-Z, Bill Bailey, Nitin Sawhney, Anoushka Shankar, Arijit Singh, Akram Khan, Javed Akhtar, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia.

Mone Rekho

What is the price of forgetting? What happens when we misremember things? Mone Rekho ('remember' in Bengali) is a compelling concert that explores how the beauty and complexity of Indian music transforms through the versatility of memory. Mone Rekho emerged from Soumik's conversations with the elderly in nursing homes. In the concert, Indian music is interwoven with electronics, visual collages, film scenes, personal anecdotes and humour. Accompanied by Gurdain Singh Rayatt on tabla and Camilo Tirado on live effects, Soumik moves between the roles of student, storyteller and master musician in a space that changes from concert hall to classroom, from a nursing home to the streets of Kolkata. The audience is left with something to think about - from remembering lost memories to learning something new. Intimate yet outspoken, Mone Rekho stimulates the imagination.

DesiYUP

DesiYUP is an online community specializing in encouraging cultural traditions in music, art and literature from India. With the belief that meaningful music nourishes the soul, strengthens self-awareness and can help achieve goodness that serves society as a whole. The vision of DesiYUP is to share the beauty of Indian art and culture in abundance in the Netherlands. A platform that connects the music fraternity: cultural institutions, artists and audiences.