Ustad Sultan Khan is a maestro on the sarangi, a bowed instrument with a unique, viola-like, harmonically complex tone due to 35 to 40 sympathetic strings running under the three playing strings. Raga Marwa is played at dusk and conjures up the introverted calm and contemplative mood of that hour. Bhairavi, with its feeling of 'sweet sadness', is played here in a devotional mood, and Sultan Khan develops the melody with great lyricism and delicacy.The first & only female professional Tabla player in the world (according to the Limca Book of records,1991), Anuradha Pal stormed into the music world with her extraordinary concert performances as a ‘child prodigy’ when she was barely ten & a half years old. Performing a rare blend of diverse styles of Tabla soloing & accompanying the virtual who’s who of Indian classical music, Anuradha has also extensively performed with African, Jazz & World Music musicians in major festivals in U.K, USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore & Africa.
Single minded dedication and an over riding hunger for musical excellence backed by excellent training from her Gurus, Tabla legends Ustads Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain & the guidance of great musicians & her accomplished parents Devinder & Ilaa Dev Pal, have established Anuradha Pal as one of the ’30 leading Women of India’ & ‘a percussionist par excellence’(India Today 2006)
Clarity & tonal balance, pinpoint precision in rhythm & an amazing repertoire spiced with creativity & spontaneity have made Anuradha Pal ‘the most creative & influential female musician of Indian classical music’ according to the A. V Max Music Magazine, May 2001.
Anuradha is the only Indian woman musician & the youngest Indian musician to perform in the world renowned WOMAD festival in UK to an audience of 1.5 lakh people in 1999. She has the unique distinction of performing for dignitaries like the Queen of England, Prime Minister & President of India.
Music Direction- Anuradha Pal is the founder and music director of two distinct music groups ‘Stree Shakti’ (1996) & ‘Recharge’(2006) Anuradha Pal’s ‘Stree Shakti’ is Asia’s much acclaimed only all female, percussion-based, instrumental and vocal fusion group whereas Anuradha Pal’s Recharge is a unique World music fusion group combining various elements of Indian, African, Latin and Jazz music. Anuradha gave the background score in the acclaimed M.F Husain film ‘Gaja Gamini’ in 1999, which won tremendous acclaim in the Cannes Film Festival.
A recipient of several important awards, Anuradha was given the ‘Sanskrutic Puraskar’, the highest cultural award by the State of Maharashtra in 2006. She has been appreciated by the prestigious Encyclopedia Britannica, Asian-American/ Indo American Who’s who journal & "Influential people of the world’ journal for ’her well balanced musicianship & pioneering contribution as a trail blazer and trend setter for societies around the world."
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