Padmashree Prabha Atre

Everson Museum of Art, downtown Syracuse
Friday, April 18, 2008, at 8 pm

Free and Open to the Public

Padmashree Dr. Prabha Atre is an internationally acclaimed singer and composer of Indian Classical Music. She is one of the finest living exponents of the Kirana performance style noted for its exquisite tonal purity and meditative melodic improvisation. Dr. Prabha Atre has received two of the most coveted awards from the Government of India, Padmashree and Padmabhushan. Her musical compositions are known for their originality, poetic beauty, and melodic intricacy. Few performers of Indian classical music also have her academic credentials. A respected scholar-teacher, she has been visiting music professor at the University of Calgary, U.C.L.A and the Rotterdam Conservatory. Her book Swaramayee won the Maharashtra State Government Book Award.

Website: http://prabhaatre.freeservers.com/prabhaatre.htm

Directions to the Concert
Take the Connective Corridor shuttle to the Everson