CURRENT PROJECTS:
Pushpanjali
Composition commissioned by Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company
Premiered at the maximum INDIA festival at the Kennedy Center (March 9, 2011)
[raga: Gavathi / talam: Roopaka Chapu]
Rajna Swaminathan - piano, mrudangam
Anjna Swaminathan - violin
Liminal Spaces: Explorations in Musical Hybridity
Culmination of a 2-year research project on the issues of cultural appropriation and power inequalities in the field of "world music"
Original compositions showcase the concept of musical/cultural hybridity and innovation as a proactive resolution to the commodification of genres of world music
Presented at the University of Maryland 4th Annual Honors Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium in May 2011
Rajna Swaminathan - vocal, piano, mrudangam
Anjna Swaminathan - violin
