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Betsy Hildebrand
Director of Public Relations
75 College Avenue
Greenville, PA 16125
Phone: 724-589-2855
FAX: 724-589-2856
bhildebrand@thiel.edu
1-800-24-THIEL
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Press Release
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GRAMMY-WINNING INDIAN PERCUSSIONIST
TO PERFORM AT THIEL COLLEGE
For immediate release September 8, 2005
 GREENVILLE, PA - Sandip Burman, a Grammy-winning Indian tabla artist, will perform
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20 in the Lutheran Heritage Room of Thiel College's Howard Miller Student Center.
Burman, a native of Durgapur, India, began his love of tabla playing at age six when one of India's most distinguished
tabla maestros, Pandit Shyamal Bose, took Burman as his pupil.
Burman has collaborated with such artists as Bèla Fleck and the Flecktones, world-renowned sitar player
Ravi Shankar, and also worked with Hollywood composer Danny Elfman on the soundtrack to Tim Burton's "Mars
Attacks."
Admission to the performance is free and is open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael
Bray, professor of music, at 724-589-2149. |
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