Released on: June 21, 2008, 6:35 am

Press Release Author: Deepak Gupta

Industry: Advertising

Press Release Summary: This was for the first time this year that a musical evening
was orgranised during the World Music Day celebration in Delhi NCR. Unity in
diversity through god's direct gift to the mankind - Music, is quite evidently
reflected in the compositions of this exceptional band.

Press Release Body: Recently on the eve of World Music Day on 20th June, Austrian
Cultural Forum in association with Spandan Communications & Chandigarh Tourism
organised an enthralling musical evening by Austrian Band NIM SOFYAN - A
multicultural & interdisciplinary Jazz group. A rare Jugalbandi was also seen during
the concert with the band & Indian Classical Musicians Sanjeev Shankar (Shehnai) &
Anand Shankar (Tabla). On this occasion Gudrun Hardiman - Pollross (Director,
Austrian Cultural Forum), Anshuman Pandey (Director, Spandan Communications), Munish
Bahal (Dy. Director, Austrian Cultural Forum), Kamal Modi and many others were also
present there.
This was for the first time this year that a musical evening was orgranised during
the World Music Day celebration in Delhi NCR. Unity in diversity through god's
direct gift to the mankind - Music, is quite evidently reflected in the compositions
of this exceptional band.
Austria often named as The Land of Music has generated a broad contribution to
various forms of art, most notably among them music. Austria has been the birthplace
of many famous composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Franz
Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss Sr., Johann Strauss Jr. and Gustav Mahler
as well as members of the Second Viennese School such as Arnold Schoenberg, Anton
Webern and Alban Berg and conductors like Felix Weingartner, Clemens Krauss, and
Herbert von Karajan, are just a few who have enriched Austrian cultural life. The
Vienna Boys' Choir and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra are celebrated
organizations. Music in all its format and facets still continues to enjoy a special
place in present day Austria.
The Austrian Cultural Forum, Department of Culture of Austrian Embassy, New Delhi in
collaboration with Chandigarh Tourism and Spandan Communications this year invited
this exceptional band evolved in the multicultural music. - from Electrifying music
of the Balkans and Asia Minor, garnished with the most interesting elements of
Mediterranean and Western European world music plus an occasional pinch of funk and
jazz. NIM SOFYAN was awarded in December 2004 Austrian World Music award at Viennese
venue Porgy & Bess by a jury of highly regarded music journalists and musicians. The
sixtet managed to combine lyrical elegance with use of guitar, violin, variety of
percussion, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet that convinced the audience with lots of
positive energy and with their multifacets voice tatto the songs from Armenia to
Greece and Macedonia into the listeners' hearts.


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