Since 2015, our team has produced three cross-cultural mega-concerts that brought together prominent South Asian and international artists. These included Hong Kong’s guitar legend Eugene Pao, erhu virtuosa Jessie Hou, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, music director Anthony Fernandes, and vocalists Baiju Mangeshkar, Smita Jain, Falu Shah, Ronkini Gupta, percussionist Anuradha Pal, and child prodigy Rahul Vellal, apart from local singing talents.
We also conduct music appreciation workshops introducing the richness of South Asian art music to students of music at Hong Kong’s leading universities. Two of our Board members actively nurture and cultivate students learning South Asian vocal and instrumental music.
In 2020 and 2021, we produced KALYANI, an arts festival held at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center that celebrated women in South Asian visual and performing arts. In 2021, our RASA and SAMVAAD concerts showcased local artists presenting traditional South Asian music and dance. This year, we presented two chamber music concerts featuring a sarod recital and a programme of light classical and folk melodies from the ancient city of Benares.
We have also produced two music videos featuring members of the Hong Kong Philharmonic collaborating with South Asian artists. One of these features a composition of the legendary Hridaynath Mangeshkar sung by his son Baiju Mangeshkar, has been released by Saregama India, the oldest record label on the sub-continent.
