The Austrian-Indian Institute is glad to invite you to the album presentation of our first album release – KABIR – IM GARTEN DER LIEBE. We are celebrating this occasion with a concert by Pandita Anuradha Pal from Mumbai and Alokesh Chandra from Vienna! Pandita Anuradha Pal is a world-renowned, multifaceted Tabla virtuoso, multi-percussionist and music…

SUFI SOUL WITH ANANDITA BASU – LIVE Anandita Basu, born in India, started to learn Indian music at the age of four. She began her basic training with her mother and Guru Professor Anjana Basu, who gained the first position in classical singing all over India. Due to her excellent performance in singing and teaching,…

Do you know the Mahabharata? The tremendous Epic poem ist the most important dramatical and spiritual work of India. Bloody like Shakespeares Dramas. Philosophical like the Faust of Goethe.  Fantastic like the Odyssee and also a religious work like for example the Bible. Only much older. It is written in Sanskrit and it is a…

THE SOUL OF SUFI – ABHAY RUSTUM SOPORI & GROUP PRESENT THE MYSTIC MUSIC OF KASHMIR (INDIA) “Gar firdaus ae baruhe zamin ast Hamin astu hamin astu hamin ast” “If there is heaven on earth -  It is here, it is here, it is here.” (Famous Proverb on Kashmir) ABHAY SOPORI  is the youngest recipient…

SONGS FROM THE SILK ROAD – Living Legend Shujaat Hussain Khan live in Vienna “His music is psychology and wisdom about how to put notes together” – Village Voice, New York “The music was as much a speeding locomotive as it was intricate tapestry” – The Washington Post “The lyrical eloquence was like someone humming…