Anuradha Pal

Anuradha Pal is a Tabla virtuoso, multi-percussionist and music composer who has been hailed as the first professional female tabla player by the Encyclopædia Britannica, Who’s Who Journal of the World and the Limca Book of Records.
A disciple of tabla players Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain, Anuradha Pal is the youngest and only female Indian musician to have performed at the Woodstock Festival in 2008, where she performed with her world music band Recharge for an audience of 400,000 people.

Pal has performed extensively at music festivals such as Woodstock, WOMAD, Voices of the World, Night of the Virtuosos, Rhythm Sticks Festival and Masters of Indian Music Festival; amongst numerous others in the US, UK, Europe, Japan, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Far East.

She became the first and the youngest woman Indian musician to perform at the WOMAD Festival in 1999, where she presented her band Stree Shakti for 150,000 fans.

She has performed tabla solos and has accompanied musicians such as Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Smt. Girija Devi, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Sultan Khan, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt; younger musicians like Rahul Sharma, Niladri Kumar, Rakesh Chaurasia, as well as, acclaimed jazz, Latin and African musicians in Indian and international festivals.

She has also performed at the Global Fusion Concert in Dubai with the classical crossover string quartet Bond, jazz drummer Sherrie Maricle, saxophonist Sharel Cassity, flamenco dancer Concepcion Jareno and guitarist Antonia Jimenez; and ney artist Burcu Karadag.

Pal composed the background score for M.F. Husain’s film Gaja Gamini. She has also composed music for short films, documentaries, theatre and other commissioned work and events.

Pal was invited as an artist-in-residence, at the New England Conservatory and Berkeley School of Music. She contributed in the research of the "Relationship between Brain, Music & Language" at Neurosciences University, San Diego and the 'Study of Tabla, Aesthetics & Complexities' at the Harvard Science Center.

Anuradha Pal has received several awards.

• 2016 Woman of Excellence Award - Awarded by FICCI FLO Ahmedabad
• 2016 All India Radio/ Doordarshan Top Grade - Awarded by Prasar Bharati, New Delhi
• 2015 Women Achievers' Award - Awarded by Young Environmentalists
• 2014 Empowerment Award - Awarded by Molecule Communications
• 2013 Dagar Gharana Award - Awarded by HRH Arvind Singh Mewar
• 2011 Malva Taal Shiromani Samman - Awarded by the Malva Sangeet Manch Samiti
• 2010 Excellence Award - Awarded by the State of Canada
• 2010 Adwitiya Stree Shakti Puraskar - Awarded by Kalidas Academy, Ujjain
• 2009 Star Taal award - Awarded by Star TV
• 2007 Zee Astitva Award - Awarded by Zee Network
• 2006 Sanskrutic Puraskar - Awarded by Maharashtra State Government
• 1999 Best Musician Award - Awarded by Pandit Jasraj
• 1997 Taal Ratna - Awarded by Bhatkhande Lalit Shiksha Samiti
• 1995 Vocational Excellence award - Awarded by Rotary club, Mumbai
• 1993 Mahakal Samman - Awarded by Mahakaleshwar Samiti, Ujjain
• 1990 Taal Mani - Awarded by Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai
• 1989 Gold Medal - All India Youth Festival

BBC Radio World Service Program featured her as one of the "Five Prominent Women Musicians of India" in 1991 and as "one of the World’s youth Icons & trendsetters" in 2008.

Doordarshan National Archives featured her in a film titled Woman of Substance in 2006.

Times Now channel featured her in a documentary titled All About Her in 2004.

Adventure Divas by the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) made a film featuring Anuradha Pal as "one of the great women achievers of India and the World" in 2001.

Films Division of India featured her in the documentary titled Aaj ki Nari in 1999.

Anuradha Pal resides in Mumbai. She teaches at Anuradha Pal‘s Tabla Academy in Mumbai & Online through Skype.

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