Meghana Sardar Kenjale

The tradition of dhrupad is a pristine musical experience of spiritual knowledge and its performance is an act of devotion or prayer inducing a feeling of peace and contemplation. Meghana is a disciple of this ancient stream of music, following the Dagar Parampara, learning vocal music under the prestigious guidance of Guru Pandit Uday Bhawalkar since 2005.

Born in 1987, Meghana undertook her initial music lessons from Smt Sudha Deo, Dr. Mohan Darekar and Dr.Saleel Kulkarni. Completing her ‘Sangeet Alankar’ (Masters degree in Indian Classical music) she has taught music at The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) as well as at Dr. Saleel Kulkarni’s academy in Pune. She has participated in various stage and television shows, such as the series ‘India Stage’ on Insync television channel, and is a graded artist of the All India Radio for dhrupad.

She has performed at the very prestigious ‘Franz Liszt Conservatory of Music’ in Europe and for the Indian Embassy of The Netherlands in The Hague. She has been awarded the scholarship from the Indian Ministry of Culture and the National Centre for Preforming Arts and the "Lalkaar" award in 2017. She has been a Scholar at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, since 2012 to 2017.

Federico Sanesi

I've always thought that integrating is better than excluding. Facing and confronting differences always gives me a deep pleasure and a cultural and inner enrichment and I don't feel any contradiction in the fact of containing them and loving their multiple quality, because I feel that they are part of me.

Percussionist and composer born in Milan in 1963, Sanesi studied classical music at the Milan Civic School with D. Searcy, and at IIMC in Venice. In 1980 he began his studies of tablā with the master P. Shankha Chatterjee and later studied percussions from South India with Anil Kumar from the Kalakshetra Academy.

His musical work focuses on the integration of various musical and cultural languages. He has collaborated in different artistic fields: poetry, dance, theater, cinema and other visual arts, reaching a concept of art in an interdisciplinary, intercultural and synergetic way. He has played with musicians from all over the world in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and India and has participated in the most important festivals (including The First Hatra International Festival, Iraq; Handelsbeurs Concertzaal Festival, Belgium; Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland).

He teaches tablā at the Arrigo Pedrollo Music Conservatory in Vicenza (Italy), the only institutional reference in Italy for Indian classical music and dance.