Program Notes Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz, at its core, is a piece about sisterhood. Each movement’s short text epitomizes the one of the many facets of having and being a sister. It is also about […]
Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz (My Sister’s Voice) -full orchestra
Program Notes Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz, at its core, is a piece about sisterhood. Each movement’s short text epitomizes the one of the many facets of having and being a sister. It is also about […]
Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz (My Sister’s Voice) -chamber orchestra
Program Notes Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz, at its core, is a piece about sisterhood. Each movement’s short text epitomizes the one of the many facets of having and being a sister. It is also about […]
This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity
Program Notes This Love Between Us is a piece about unity. Its seven movements juxtapose the words of seven major religious traditions of India (Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Jainism and Islam), and specifically how each […]
E Safar
Program Notes E Safar is based on a Javed Akhtar poem — the title, which translates to “Oh Journey” is part of a couplet that translates to: Oh journey, be not in vain,If not to […]
Chuti Hui Jagah (mezzo + guitar)
Program Notes When I lived in India in 2012, I was introduced to the work of Manav Kaul, an incredible Hindi-language playwright, actor and poet living in Mumbai. Hindi is a language that has become […]
Chuti Hui Jagah (alto or Hindustani voice+marimba)
Program Notes When I lived in India in 2012, I was introduced to the work of Manav Kaul, an incredible Hindi-language playwright, actor and poet living in Mumbai. Hindi is a language that has become […]
Aria
Program Notes Even though my heritage is Indian, most of my early musical training was exclusively in Western classical music. It was only since 2010 that I began to learn about and explore Hindustani (North […]