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INNER VISIONS - CELEBRATING BLIND MUSICIANS-CONNECTING CULTURES-UK-INDIA.

 

Baluji Music Foundation based in London UK and Indian (NGO) Astha Mahila Utthan Samiti  Kanpur branch with the support of The British Council are developing a programme of music to be performed in Kanpur  January 15 2011 and later in London.

 

Internationally acclaimed blind maestro Baluji Shrivastav comes to Kanpur in January 2011 to work with Dr. C. L. Tripathi and his group of blind musicians.

The  pieces created in India will form part of the material that can then be brought to UK and performed in collaboration with some of the members of the newly emerging Inner Vision Orchestra .

For this particular and first and vital development project, while in India Baluji will hold a 9 day program consisting of informal presentations and sharing, practical music skills and music creation workshops and rehearsals with a group of blind musicians, culminating in a public performance in Kanpur, to which all the local supporters from the institutes and colleges and fans of Baluji's will be invited.

During the week, Baluji will also record the music of the artists performing and present each of them with a copy which they may use as a way to market and demonstrate their skills and enhance  their career opportunities.

 

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Inner Vision Concert in India

 

On January 15 2011 at Merchant Chamber Hall  a concert called "Inner Visions" "Antar Drishti" took place in Kanpur India. It featured Baluji Shrivastav and a group of local blind musicians as part of a project funded by the British Council as part of their India-UK connecting cultures initiative. You Tube footage will follow soon.

 

Below you can see press cuttings from this occasion. Translation into English will be available soon. Click images to enlarge.

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INNER VISION ORCHESTRA 2011 news

 

It’s been a remarkable and busy year for Inner Vision Orchestra. Since the Inner Vision concert in India in January this year, there has been a constant development with the Inner Vision programme in London. We began with a series of workshops with an international group of talented musicians at Outlook Islington.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next Inner Vision Orchestra event is at Islington Council Community Chest on 29th November 2011 at Cripplegate Foundation Ltd. 76 Central Street, London EC1V 8AG Please ring 0207 566 3132 for more information.

Inner Vision Orchestra is currently running a series of music workshops based at Outlook Islington and is preparing for a debut performance of new works in April 2012 at Pleasance Theatre Islington. This concert will be the first from the Inner Vision Orchestra London tour from April-June 2012 at various venues to be confirmed. Keep tuned!

 

A successful fundraising concert was held in April at the Shaftsbury Tavern in North London, where some talented musicians performed live for the first time in front of an audience.

 

Baluji Music Foundation's Inner Vision project presents Fereshteh from Iran accompanied by Takashi on viola, Abbi baker piano and Baluji on percussion. All these are blind musicians taking part in a concert at the Shaftesbury in Hornsey London April 15 2011.

 

This event was the first opportunity Fereshteh has had to sing in public:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSj7odK5Vgs

 

Abi Baker performs Chopin and talks about her life Inner Vision Orchestera London concert as a part of a fundraising event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1l6utgxNY

 

Takashi Kikuchi on viola accompanying baluji Shrivastav on Sitar and Sheetal Sing Sitara is playing tabla at an Inner Vision London Fund raising Concert for Baluji Music Foundation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZo1S7AE1Zc

 

Inner Vision Orchestra from the Baluji Music Foundation fund raising concert in London April 2011 presenting blind musicians in the UK. Takashi Kikuchi viola player and Abbi Baker pianist perform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_O8oRom1Ic

 

There were two innovative performances at the Arts Depot. One of which was the Inner Vision three blind maestros playing part of Vieuxtemps Capriccio on Viola and Gershwin’s Summertime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqJMXtpWuwo

 

Baluji Music Foundation promotes visually impaired musicians through Inner Vision Orchestra presenting Tristram Llewellan, Takashi Kikuchi and Baluji Shrivastav. Here the Three Blind Maestros play Greensleeves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZMR_TuvZ0

 

Baluji Music Foundation Inner Vision Orchestra presents a unique interpretation of a traditional Japanese folk tune combining viola with sitar and tabla with Inner Vision Duo Takashi Kikuchi & Baluji Shrivastav:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Airbcmwcs

 

Abi Baker and Takashi Kikuchi play Mendelson at Inner Vision Concert supporting the work of Baluji Music Foundation celebrating the talent of blind musicians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjfDC9YSHRo

 

With thanks to Islington Community Chest, Greater London Fund for the Blind, the Cripplegate Foundation and the British Council for helping to develop this project.

 

 

Photos from the workshop at Outlook Islington:

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