David Trasoff, Sarod
Benefit Concert
Friday, October 17, 7 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel

$5 requested donation at the door to support NIRMAN in Varanasi, India, a non-governmental organization working for children and their families, for education, civic consciousness, the arts, and international exchange.

Hinustani music workshop at 4 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel. Conducted by Dr. Nita Kumar, Ms. Irfana Majumdar, and Dr. David Trasoff.

Free and open to the public.

David Trasoff has studied sarod performance and North Indian classical music under maestro Ali Akbar Khan, India's 'Living National Treasure,' since 1972. He has also received guidance from Dr. Rajeev Taranath, renowned sarod performer and senior disciple of Ali Akbar Khan.

David has appeared in concert in arts centers, universities, conservatories and festivals in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has made numerous performing tours in India.

David holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.F.A. in music from California Institute of the Arts. He served as Director of the Indian Music Ensemble at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1995-1997, and taught in the Visual and Performing Arts Program at California State University, San Marcos from 1997-2001. David presently teaches North Indian classical music and improvisation in the World Music program of the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts.

David has contributed as a composer and performer to numerous film, recording and live music events, including the release of a solo classical recording on compact disc featuring accompaniment by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. In 1997, David composed and directed music for an acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. He has also participated in contemporary music, theater and dance projects in Los Angeles.