Roopa Panesar + Gurdain Rayatt + Giuliano Modarelli

A world music evening at Kings Place in London, bringing together sitar player Roopa Panesar, tabla player Gurdain Rayatt and guitarist Giuliano Modarelli, whose work draws on Indian classical music.

Roopa Panesar plays the sitar, combining Indian classical music with jazz and Western classical music. Panesar has worked with Talvin Singh and has performed at Lincoln Center in New York, at WOMAD, at the Chicago World Music Festival, and with the Budapest Orchestra in Brussels, Amsterdam and Budapest.

Gurdain Rayatt, a British tabla player, moves between traditional Indian classical playing and cross-cultural and experimental music. Rayatt has performed alongside Anoushka Shankar and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. Giuliano Modarelli, an Italian guitarist born in Milan in 1977, has been active since 2000 and released the album Englobed in 2012. Based in London, Modarelli draws on new jazz, electronic music, dub and Indian classical music. In this programme, Modarelli has a special performance and has written a new piece with Panesar, commissioned as part of the International Guitar Festival.

Kings Place is a concert and performance venue on York Way in King's Cross, London. Hall One is the room hosting this evening's concert.