Indian music and dance

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Artists/teachers/Music schools


Amsterdam - Bansuri (Flute)
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Ludwig Pesch
Postbus 3350
1001 AD Amsterdam
Tel:020-685 60 44
Fax:020- 685 60 44
Email:sampurna@mac.com
Web:www.sampurna.mimemo.net

Ludwig Pesch taught music and performed with improvisation ensembles while studying music and musicology at the Government Music College and University Freiburg (Germany).

For 15 years, he was a pupil of the late Ramachandra Shastry, musical heir to the great traditions of Tyagaraja and Sarabha Sastrigal.

A scholar under the Indo-German Cultural Exchange Programme and the German Academic Exchange Service, he completed his Diploma Course (five years) in Karnatic Music (First Class) at Kalakshetra. He is the co-founder of a major music documentation centre and archive in Chennai, Sampradaya.

For many years, he performed alongside his guru. While receiving advanced training as a Karnatic flautist in the Post-Diploma Course for two years at Kalakshetra, he also had numerous opportunities to give solo-concerts of his own. Since then, he has performed all over South India. 

Pesch was a guest lecturer in several American universities and Indian music circles. He also performed several times in the USA. As a guest lecturer, he has worked with professional musicians as well as young children. He has also introduced Karnatic music in the context of special education and rehabilitation projects in Germany. Together with the South Indian percussion virtuoso, T.R. Sundaresan and other artists he conducts workshops across Europe. 

As a tribute to his continuous work for the advancement of the Indo-German cultural relations Ludwig Pesch is decorated with the Cross of the Order of Merit on the Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande).

He has also several publications to his credit.
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