Sufi Music Workshop: Dr Madan Gopal Singh & Dhruv Sangari (India)

This workshop is for people with music experience and appreciation  who wish to learn more about Sufi music and poetry, as well as Qawwali. Participants will be given a broad introduction to the artform and singing tuition.

A well-known name in the world of cinema, art and cultural history, Dr Madan Gopal Singh is a treasure-house of Sufi music and folk poetry. At music festivals around the world, he has performed Punjabi translations of Rumi, Attar, Rilke, Neruda, Brecht, Rabindranath Tagore and even John Lennon. Singh has composed music for many films and been invited to sing at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, and the closing ceremony of Belgium’s Festival of India.

Dhruv Sangari’srepertoire includes Persian and Arabic poetry, Punjabi and Hindi song and Urdu poetry. He has performed both classical and qawwali music all over India and has worked under many great artists such as Ustad Iqbal Khan, Vidya Rao and Madan Gopal Singh. Sangari has regularly pushed musical boundaries in his collaborations with the likes of Mexican saxophonist Ariel Guzik, Egyptian dancer Ahmed Faares, British electronic musician, Vishal Gopal, and Russian violinist Gennady Lavrentyev.

Dr Madan Gopal Singh and Dhruv Singari will perform in concert with Chaar Yaar at Riverside Theatres on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November. They will also perform in collaboration with David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir on Sunday 6 November, in the festival’s finale concert, titled Sufi Music and Harmonic Spheres.

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