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1. Artist Information.
Global Rhythms is a World Music Ensemble consisting
of over 60 members, based in Miami University, Ohio. The group performs primarily Indian raaga based music, with
a heavy emphasis on rhythm and strives to integrate the music of Asia, Africa and South America. The result is
unique, complex, and the "pulse of a new era." The group has played with Grammy award winning percussionists
such as Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Eguie Castrillo, Jon Santos and Glen Velez. Other notable artistes who have
played with Global Rhythms include, Umayalapuram Sivaraman, T.V.Vasan, Manargudi Easwaran, Effrain Toro, Arnaldo
Vacca, Hafiz Shabazz, Casey Scheurell, Min Xiao Fen and Mohamad Camara.
Global Rhythms will be playing for the first time in
Cambridge on October 20 at Kresge Auditorium. The show will feature more than 60 artistes including 40 singers.
(Miami University Choraliers).
(The following list is not an inclusive list and is subject
to change.)
Srinivas Krishnan
- Tabla (finger drum), Bodhran (Irish framedrum)
Srinivas Krishnanis is the Artistic Director of Global RHythms World Music ENsemble. He is a Master Percussionist
from India and has been trained under four master musicians in India. Srinivas performs on the tabla, the ghatam,
the Middle Eastern dumbek, the Irish Bodhran,
and the mridangam. He is currently the Artist in Residence at the Center of World And American Cultures at Miami
University. Kindly visit his website at Miami University for further information.
Roger Davis
- Bass Guitar and Musical Arrangements
G. Roger Davis holds a DMA and a MM in composition from The Ohio State University. His Bachelors Degree is from
Berklee College of Music. He was a faculty member at Berklee from 1984 through 1986 where he taught jazz theory,
jazz arranging, aural training, and directed numerous jazz and popular music ensembles. Since 1990 he has served
as Assistant Professor of music theory at Miami University. Dr. Davis is an active commercial music and art music
composer. His music for jingles, industrial videos, and television programs have been heard in the U.S.A., Canada,
Europe, and Japan. With Music Department Associate Professor, Dr. Claire Boge, Dr. Davis has co-presented numerous
music theory papers at regional and national meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the College Music Society.
In 1995 Dr. Davis's work, The Dancing Difference, was recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic, Rubin Silve, conducting.
The CD is out on the Vienna Modern Masters label.
Ethan Sperry
- Vocals
Ethan Sperry (D.M.A., University of Southern California, 2000), assistant professor of music, conducts the Men's
Glee Club and the Collegiate Chorale and teaches classes in voice and choral music. He holds a B.A. from Harvard
College in Philosophy and master's and doctoral degrees in choral music from the University of Southern California.
He has studied choral conducting with Jameson Marvin, William Dehning, and Robert Shaw, and orchestral conducting
with John Barnett and Robert Spano. While at USC, Sperry served as conductor of the Men's Chorus, assistant director
of the Chamber Choir and University Choir, and Director of Choral Activities at Santa Ana College in Orange County.
He has also served as Director of Music at the Roxbury Latin School, Music Director of the Dunster House Opera
Society, and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. Sperry has recently been appointed Artistic Administrator
of the Arad Philharmonic Chorus in Romania, where he conducted the Romanian premiere of the Dvorak Stabat Mater
with the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus last year.
Pat Hernly
- Ghatam (Clay pot)
Pat won a scholarship to study in India under T.V. Vasan, Uma Jaishankar (Rishi Valley school), and Guruvayur Dorai.
He is known for his skills on drumset and performs for the group "Glow Worm". Pat has also been trained
in Vocal Indian Music and is mastering the complex art of swara kalpana.
Kiran Pathakota
- Mridangam (double sided South Indian drum)
Kiran is a 11 year old Mridangam Prodigy. He is a student of the renowned mridangam maestro Karaikudi Mani.
Anupama Sharma
- Sitar
Anupama is a rising young Sitarist. Born to parents with great devotion to music, she started learning Sitar at
the age of nine under Shri R. N. Verma, an exponent of the Maihar Gharana. Anupama then had the privilege to become
the disciple of Pandit Shri Bimalendu Mukherjee, a doyen of the famous Imdadkhni Gharana, and has been learning
the Gayaki style of Sitar playing. She has completed the Sangeet Visharad and holds an M.A. in music. She was conferred
the presitigious "Surmani" title from the Sur Sringar Samsad in Bombay, and was awarded the National
Scholarship for Music from the Ministry of Human Resources Development for the period 1993-1996. She was awarded
First Place in the All India Radio instrumental music competition in 1994, First Place at the Jalgaon Competition
in Nagpur, First Place in the Youth Festival, and Second Place in the First National Youth Festival in 1995.
Sathish Pathakota
- Kanjira (Indian tambourine)
Sathish is also a student of Karaikudi Mani. He is a mathematical
genius with the tal. Sathish Pathakota has the unique ability to make mathematical complications sound crystal
clear, and his brisk speed is unmatched. He has been featured at major performance centers around the world including
the Lotus World Music festival.
Seetha Shivaswamy
- Flute
Seetha recently graduated with her M.M. in flute performance from the University of Texas-Austin as a student of
Dr. Karl Kraber. She recently performed in a masterclass for the piccoloist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Seetha
is co-principal flute in the top orchestra, a member of the Wind Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble and New Music Ensemble
and teaches flute privately in the Austin area. Seetha attended the Flute Symposium at Domaine Forget in Quebec,
Canada in July 1999, where she was chosen by competitive audition as one of 15 performers (out of 56 participants)
for masterclasses with Ransom Wilson and Emmanuel Pahud. In April 1999, she was named Outstanding Instrumentalist
in the School of Music. Seetha was named alternate to the 1997 Eastern Music Festival, Greensboro, North Carolina.
She is a past winner of the Indiana Music Teachers Association Collegiate Woodwind Competition and was Principal
Flute for the European tour of Indiana's Musical Ambassadors Symphonic Band in the summer of 1996. Seetha has been
a substitute flutist with the Muncie and Anderson Symphony Orchestras and a member of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra
Woodwind Quintet for three years.
Jason Bruns
- Drumset
Jason Bruns is a student of music in MU. He is involved with both the university wind ensemble and the university
jazz band.
John Terpin
- Trombone
John plays in the Miami university Jazz ensemble.
Emily Power
- Clarinet
Emily Power is the director of Musical Activities and Musical Friends. Emily is music education major with the
clarinet as her major instrument. In her spare time she likes to play the saxophone, watch movies, read, and loves
swing dancing. Emily spent the Winter of 2000 in India studying Indian music.
Adrianne Wininsky
- Cello
Adrianne is a graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music
degree in cello performance at Miami University, where she performs as a member of the graduate string quartet,
and as principal cellist of the Miami University Symphony Orchestra. Adrianne has spent summers in India training
with the renowned violinist V.S.Narasimhan and the Madras String Quartet.
Gregory Thorkelson
- Violin
Greg is a Finance major at the Miami University. He is minoring in Music and plays the violin. Greg spent the Summer
of 2001 in India with Srinivas Krishnan.
Vijay Rao
- Congas
Siddharth Rao
- Shakers
Benjamin Meye, Joey Schultz and Michael Greer - Steel Pan
Stephani Evans, Jenny Lapple
- flute
Susan Schroeder
- Piano
Laura Guyer
- Oboe
Andy Strauss
- djerido
Rajoun Caldwell
- Trombone
Siri Hoogen - Cello
Andy Carr
- Trumpet
Rob James
- lead guitar
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