Saskia Rao-de Haas
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Saskia Rao-de Haas is a Dutch cellist based in Delhi, India. She performs North Indian classical music on the cello and uses a specially constructed cello, the Indian Cello made by violinbuilder Eduard van Tongeren for this purpose, with five playing strings and ten sympathetic strings. She has studied Indian music with Koustav Ray, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Sumati Mutatkar, D. K. Datar, and Deepak Chowdhury.
Rao-de Haas is married to the sitarist Shubhendra Rao.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ Ghose, Anindita (18 December 2009). "Raga from Rotterdam". Livemint. http://www.livemint.com/articles/2009/12/18202109/Raga-from-Rotterdam.html. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ Jain, Vaishali (9 March 2009). "Fusion magic". Livemint. http://www.livemint.com/2009/03/08235741/Fusion-magic.html. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
[edit] External links
- Saskia Rao-de Haas official site
- Rao-de Haas 2-CD set from Rhyme Records website
- radio-documentary (59 min., 2002) on Saskia Rao-de Haas
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