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Berliner Künstlerprogramm and started
a teaching
course
of Indian music at the
Hochschule
der
Künste
(HdK), Berlin, set-ting
a
precedent. Since 1979
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Later
Sankha has studied under the tutelage of great maestros like Late Ustad
Maseet Khan, Late Ustad Keramatulla Khan and Late Ustad Allarakha Khan
in Guru-Shishya Parampara tradition. His high reputation as a performer,
composer and teacher stems from his mastery over three leading Gharanas
(schools) of Tabla: Farukkabad, Delhi and Punjab.
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conferences
all over India, where he has
accompanied
the
most famous musicians,
as mentioned above. Sankha became well known to European and American audiences through concerts with the great Sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan as well as with Imrat Khan and many other renowned Indian and Western musicians. Among his memorable concerts are the concerts at the Westminster Abbey, Royal Festival Hall (London), Congress Hall (Berlin) and a two hours Tabla-Solo inaugurating a new studio of RIAS Berlin (radio station) in 1975. Sankha has the distinction of being the first Indian musician to be invited by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in the |
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he had been guiding a class on Indian music at the Musik-schule Neukölln
(Berlin), at the Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati (Venice),
and seminars organized by cultural organisations in Italy, Germany and
Holland creating hundreds of music lovers and students.
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