School of North Indian Music

With Pranesh Khan on Tabla at Asian American Jazz festival,
Performing Arts Center, Skokie, IL

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

MUSIC FESTIVALS:

• Opening Night 2000 New Year’s Eve Celebration of the arts
  At Fine Arts Council of Trumbull County, Warren, OH
• 2001 Kent State Folk Music Festival at Kent State University, OH
• 2001 Day of Music in Severance Hall (Cleveland Orchestra), Cleveland, OH
• 2001 Damaru's - 'e-desh o-desh' Indian Classical Concert, Calcutta, India
• 1999 & 2000 Woodstock 30^th Reunion Music Fest, Yasgurs Farm, Bethel, NY
• The 1997 Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival
   North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, IL
• New York State Music Conference for Int'l Music At Long Island, NY
• Eastern Conference for Performing Group At Atlantic City, NJ
• Midfest International Music and Dance Festival at Middletown, OH
• Ethnic Extravaganza Music Festival – Neighborhood Centers Assoc.
  TRW World Head Quarters, Richmond Ht., OH
• Cain Park Arts Festival at Cleveland, OH
• Cleveland Heritage Foundation
• Traditional Concert Series by The National Park,Cuyahoga Valley, OH

• Shiva-Vishnu Temple at Parma, OH
• Laxmi-Narayan Temple at Youngstown, OH
• First Unitarian Universalist Church, Rochester, MN
• Cleveland Catholic Diocese’s Sesquicentennial Celebration
  Inter Faith Concert of Sacred Music at St. Bernard Catholic Church, Akron, OH
• Music And Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, OH

• 2002 Conservatory of Music Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin College, OH
• 2001 Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
• 2000 The University Of Toledo, OH
• University Hospital, Ireland Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH
• Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, OH
• The Cleveland Music Settlement School, OH
• College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
• Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH
• Visual And Performing Arts at Valparaiso University, IN
• University of Urbana-Champaign at Krannet Center for Performing Arts, IL
• University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY
• Carnegie-Mellon University and Uni. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• Illinois State University at Normal, IL
• The Indian Students Assoc. of Kent State University, Kent, OH
• Cleveland Public Theatre – Sonic Disturbance, Lakewood, OH
• Cleveland Sight center, Cleveland, OH

• Odissi Dance Drama - Chitrangada, written by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore
  Composed & Played Sitar in a live music ensemble at Kelly-Strayhorm Community Performing Center, Pittsburgh, PA presented by Srishti Dances of India
• Composed & Played Sitar in a live music ensemble at Kathak Dance Recital by Nupur School of Dance, Avon, OH

RADIO/TV STATIONS:

• LIVE Radio Broadcasting WRUW 91.1 FM, Cleveland, OH
• LIVE Radio Broadcasting WEFT at Champaign, IL
• TV Talk/Performance Show at Hibsa Ent Poorva’s Fragrance of East, OH
• Documentary show on TV 61 for Master Classes, OH

ACCOLADES:

• "She was a key element in the ensemble and she performed her beautiful music superbly"
      Sreyashi Dey, Artistic Director, Srishti Dances of India
• "Her improvising skills are amazing, especially in the light of her absorbtion of glissando vocal techniques into her Sitar playing"
      Dr. Robert Rollin, Professor of Music, Youngstown State University, OH
• "Held the attention of a packed audience so well that you could hear every nuance of her music"
      Dr. Gale Sherwood, Professor of Music, The University of Toledo, OH
• "You are a brilliant musician"
      Joe Garry, Cleveland Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH
• "Your ensemble was expertly assembled"
      Peter Czornyj, The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland, OH
• "Native of  India a ceaseless champion of Nation's music"
      Robert Finn, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH
• "Your music added authenticity to our festival"
      Tatsu Aoki, Artistic Dir.,Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival
• "Indian Music 'Enchants' Kiva audience" - Daily Kent Stater
• "She wove an elaborate web of sound that held the rapt attention of our audience from start to finish.The purity of austerity of the tradition in which she was trained rang through the melodic improvisation of her alap and jhor in different ragas."
      Andrew Killick, Asst. Prof. Dept of Music, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
• "Her technique is powerful, ranging from the piercing high notes punctuating the first raga to the more plaintive lines of the second to the whisper-like tones of the third, in which the plucking is at times almost louder than itself. Patel is formidable musician." - Peggy J.Latkovich, Dirty Linen
• "Performance was mesmerising, held audience of 5000 spellbound, quiet unique and not soon to be forgotten."
      Jerry Abramson, Woodstock 30th reunion Music Festival,Yasgurs Farm,Bethel,NY
• "The audience was transfixed. The silvery twang of the sitar began to weave a spell through the room that contained until the very last notes" 
      The Oberlin Review, Oberlin, OH
     

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