Ohio Artists on Tour

MUSIC - TRADITIONAL

Hasu Patel

HASU PATEL, one of the few world-class female Composer/Performer/Educator of India's popular string instrument sitar, is dedicated to preserving and propagating the fascinating, highly evolved and traditional music of ancient India in its pristine purity. She plays Sitar in a very special style known as Gayaki Ang (vocal style), where the sitar replicates the fluidity and subtle nuances of the human voice. Her repertoire features unique system of music known as RAGA SANGEET which a scientific, precise, subtle and one-of-a-kind event of Classical Music of North India.

As a Performer, she holds lecture/demonstrations in schools/colleges/universities, and performs at Performing Arts Centers, Music Conferences, Yoga Centers, Classical/Jazz Music Festivals including Woodstock/Chicago Jazz festival, Women Composers Festival, Rhineburger Hall of Cleveland Orchestra and China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China.

As a Composer, she composes all her music for the concerts; composed two stunning Sitar Concertos for Western Orchestras; also composed music for Indian Classical Dances of Noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

As an Educator she taught for 20 years Classical music of India on SITAR/TABLA/VOICE at Conservatory of Music of Oberlin College, Ohio and continues to teach at Sursangam School of Music.

She was included among 25 prestigious Women Composers of USA in a book titled In Her Own Words by Dr. Jennifer Kelly.