Hasu Patel and Arup Chattopadhyay with The Doctors Orchestra of Houston

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

MUSIC FESTIVALS:

• Women in Music Festival, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
• Ohio Gourd Society, Mt. Gilead, OH
• Opening Night New Year's Eve Celebration, At Fine Arts Council Warren, OH
• Kent State Folk Music Festival at Kent State University, OH
• Day of Music in Severance Hall (Cleveland Orchestra), Cleveland, OH
• Damaru's - 'e-desh o-desh' Indian Classical Concert, Calcutta, India
• Woodstock 30th Reunion Music Fest, Yasgurs Farm, Bethel, NY
• The Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival
  North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie, IL
• New York State Music Conference for Int'l Music, Long Island, NY
• Eastern Conference for Performing Groups, Atlantic City, NJ
• Midfest International Music and Dance Festival, Middletown, OH
• Ethnic Extravaganza Music Festival - Neighborhood Centers Assoc., Richmond Ht., OH
• Cain Park Arts Festival at Cleveland, OH
• Traditional Concert Series by The National Park, Cuyahoga Valley, OH

CHURCHES, TEMPLES & YOGA CENTERS:

• Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) Monastery, Woodstock, NY
• Forest Hill Church - Presbyterian, Cleveland, OH
• The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre
  Val Morin, Québec; Woodbourne, NY; Paradise Island, Bahamas; Buckingham, VA;
  Grass Valley, CA
• Amrit Yoga Institute, Salt Springs, FL
• Music And Performing Arts, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, OH
• Finney Chapel, Oberlin, OH
• Shiva-Vishnu Temple at Parma, OH
• Laxmi-Narayan Temple at Youngstown, OH
• First Unitarian Universalist Church, Rochester, MN
• Cleveland Catholic Diocese's Sesquicentennial Celebration Inter Faith Concert, Akron, OH

ART CENTERS, ART MUSEUM AND UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGES:

• The Penn State Vedic Society, State College, PA
• Defiance College, Schomburg Auditorium, Defiance, OH
• The Gallery at Deep Listening Space of Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Kingston, NY
• LeFevre Gallery, The Ohio State University, Newark, OH
• Conservatory of Music, Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin College, OH
• Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
• The University Of Toledo, OH
• University Hospital, Ireland Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH
• Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, OH
• The Cleveland Music Settlement School, OH
• College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
• Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH
• Visual And Performing Arts at Valparaiso University, IN
• University of Urbana-Champaign at Krannet Center for Performing Arts, IL
• University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY
• Carnegie-Mellon University and Uni. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• Illinois State University at Normal, IL
• The Indian Students Assoc. of Kent State University, Kent, OH
• Cleveland Public Theatre - Sonic Disturbance, Lakewood, OH
• Cleveland Sight center, Cleveland, OH

COLLABORATION WITH INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE:

• Odissi Dance Drama - Chitrangada, by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore
• Composed & Played Sitar in a live music ensemble at Kelly-Strayhorm Community Performing Center, Pittsburgh, PA presented by Srishti Dances of India
• Composed & Played Sitar in a live music ensemble at Kathak Dance Recital by Nupur School of Dance, Avon, OH

RADIO/TV STATIONS:

• LIVE Radio Broadcasting WRUW 91.1 FM, Cleveland, OH
• LIVE Radio Broadcasting WEFT at Champaign, IL
• TV Talk/Performance Show at Hibsa Ent Poorva's Fragrance of East, OH
• Documentary show on TV 61 for Master Classes, OH

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ACCOLADES:

• "Doctors Orchestra of Houston’s winter concert features East-West tryst" Full review
  INDIA HERALD, Houston, TX
• "Recording with Hasu Patel was a great pleasure for me and the music very intricate and absorbing."
  Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Kingston, NY
• "You are clearly a world-class musician and performer."
  Dr. Ron Emoff, Assistant Professor, School of Music, The Ohio State University, Newark,OH
• "Artists have to be technically very prepared, but it is a very rare gift to be capable of infusing their soul in their music. Through your performance we could see the beautiful heart of India."
  Swami Mahadevananda, The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Val Morin, Quebec, Canada
• "She was a key element in the ensemble and she performed her beautiful music superbly"
  Sreyashi Dey, Artistic Director, Srishti Dances of India
• "Her improvising skills are amazing, especially in the light of her absorbtion of glissando vocal techniques into her Sitar playing"
  Dr. Robert Rollin, Professor of Music, Youngstown State University, OH
• "Held the attention of a packed audience so well that you could hear every nuance of her music"
  Dr. Gale Sherwood, Professor of Music, The University of Toledo, OH
• "You are a brilliant musician"
  Joe Garry, Cleveland Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH
• "Your ensemble was expertly assembled"
  Peter Czornyj, The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland, OH
• "Native of India a ceaseless champion of Nation's music"
  Robert Finn, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH
• "Your music added authenticity to our festival"
  Tatsu Aoki, Artistic Dir.,Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival
• "Indian Music 'Enchants' Kiva audience"
  Daily Kent Stater
• "She wove an elaborate web of sound that held the rapt attention of our audience from start to finish.The purity of austerity of the tradition in which she was trained rang through the melodic improvisation of her alap and jhor in different ragas."
  Andrew Killick, Asst. Prof. Dept of Music, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
• "Her technique is powerful, ranging from the piercing high notes punctuating the first raga to the more plaintive lines of the second to the whisper-like tones of the third, in which the plucking is at times almost louder than itself. Patel is formidable musician."
  Peggy J.Latkovich, Dirty Linen
• "Performance was mesmerising, held audience of 5000 spellbound, quiet unique and not soon to be forgotten."
  Jerry Abramson, Woodstock 30th reunion Music Festival, Yasgurs Farm, Bethel, NY
• "The audience was transfixed. The silvery twang of the sitar began to weave a spell through the room that contained until the very last notes"
  The Oberlin Review, Oberlin, OH
• "Watching Hasu's serene countenance as she moved easily from the calm alap to rapid virtuoso passages leading to the jhala climax was sheer enjoyment." Roderic Knight, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Oberlin College, OH
• "The sound of the classical music of India was truly splendid in the cathedral." Mike Telin, Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, Inc.