Such a pleasure to be in conversation with an acclaimed film sound designer from Kolkata and to interact with a lively audience at Jadavpur University in Kolkata. It brought back such great memories of the years I spent there from 1996-1999 and the many visits over the following years. Thanks to Dr Rahi Soren for the organising this.
Was so happy to be back in Kolkata after 5 years of Covid affected travel.
I had been invited to give 5 performances in one of my most musically vibrant and inspiring cities in the world. I was honoured to have performed in front of highly renowned musicians Ustad Irfan Khan, Pandit Buddhaditya Mukherjee, Pandit Anindya Banerjee, Subranil Sarkar and Kathak danseuse Vidushi Sushmita Banerjee
A couple of the posters plastered on the streets of Kolkata for one of the performances which took place at Shishir Manch in the city’s Arts precinct.
September 2023, online performance with the Hindustani Music Collective Melbourne for Culture X Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/live/CPhNcyAkEnc?si=r-h_1K8W6ykALzEk
December 2023 – composed and performed music for a short film made in Melbourne.
17th April 8pm and 18th April 3pm
Bobby and I are so looking forward to performing again after a 12 month COVID-19 hiatus. We are really excited to be playing at such a great venue for Hindustani music in Sydney – @107 (107 Redfern St, Redfern).
Hope to be able to catch up with as many of our friends in Sydney as possible (we miss you!)
Melbourne Hindustani Classical Music Society
Adrian McNeil sarod
Bobby Singh tabla
7.30pm Kew Court House
188 High St, Kew, VIC 3101
Full details: https://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/events/hindustani-classical-instrumental
The Sourindro Mohan Tagore/Bengal Renaissance project was featured on the ABC Radio National show, The Live Set with Alice Keath on November 27th, 2014. The ensemble Vinod Prasanna, Michael Galeazzi Damian Wright, Bobby Singh and Adrian McNeil recorded 3 tracks and Alice spoke to Adrian about the musical and historical significance of the project in an extended interview.
Click here for details
Adrian has received a prestigious Creative Fellowship from the State Library of Victoria. This award is granted for a six month performance research project based project. The project is based around notations published in a collection of music books sent to Victoria by the Bengali aristocrat Sourendra Mohan Tagore in the late nineteenth century along with a collection of musical instruments. The instruments included a number of hybrid inventions, such as one in which the sitar neck had been combined with a violin body. They are currently housed in the music archives at Monash University. The various songs notated in the books were also quite unique and similarly embraced intercultural themes and elements. The project will revisit these notations and arrange them for an intercultural ensemble put together especially for the project. The performance will be held in the middle of 2014 in the State LIbrary. Details to be posted when they are confirmed
Have, finished recording a new CD of Hindustani music with Bobby Singh in early April 2013 (Ragas Bairagi and Hemant). Just at the production stage now and looking forward to its release later this year.