Tabla

Pandit Sadanand Naimpalli, one of the outstanding Tabla and Pakhawaj players of India, is a Metallurgical Engineer by training. He was initiated into the art of Tabla playing by the legendary Guru and Tabla and Pakhawaj Maestro, Pandit Taranathji. After an extensive taalim extending to six years, he won the President's award for standing First at the All India Radio Competitions in 1963. Sadanandji is today a top grade artist of Akashvani and Doordarshan and has participated with distinction in several music conferences and festivals in India and abroad. He is a winner of several national awards. His workshops and lecture demonstrations have made him one of the great educators of tabla today. Besides being an famous soloist creating new compositions in diverse taals, Sadanandji has accompanied most of the top vocalists and instrumentalists of India. He has also participated and conducted ""Taal Vadya Kacheri"" Concerts involving leading percussionists of Carnatic, Hindustani traditions and Western drummers. Sadanandji has also taught hundreds of aspiring young Tabla players, many of whom are now themselves teaching and performing creditably. Sadanandji's first book Theory and Practice of Tabla, with a foreword by Ustad Zakir Hussain, has become a best-seller in its genre.