Catherine Potter
Catherine Potter (born December 25, 1957 in Guelph , Ontario , † December 3, 2010 ) was a Canadian flautist and composer who fused Indian classical music and jazz .
biography
Catherine Potter learned to flute as a teenager and then studied jazz at Concordia University and ethnomusicology at Université de Montréal . From the beginning of the 1980s he was concerned with Asian cultures, discovered the bansuri flute in India in 1982 and had lessons from the Indian flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia since 1986 . She also performed publicly with Chaurasia, and the bansuri became her main instrument. In 1997 her debut album Bansuri was released . In 2002 she founded the Duniya Project , with which she recorded a second album ( Duniya Project , 2006), on which she fused jazz and Indian classical music. She performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival ; In 2008 she toured Europe and India with her music. Her third album Convergence also contained elements of African music as a tribute to Boubacar Diabaté , which she composed with the kora player Zal Idrissa Cissokho. She also worked with Simon Shaheen , Ramasutra, Subhankar Bannerjee and Ganesh Anandan .
Potter has received various awards from the Canadian Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts ; In 1999 she won the Jon Higgins Award .
Catherine Potter died of breast cancer on December 3, 2010.
Web links
- Obituary The Globe and Mail December 23, 2010
- Obituary at World Music Central
Remarks
- ↑ The Duniya Project consisted of Jorge Martinez ( flamenco guitar ), Nicolas Caloia (double bass), Vineet Vyas (tabla) and Thom Gossage (drums).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Potter, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guelph |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | Montréal |