David Philipson
David Philipson is an American bansuri player.
Philipson studied from 1978 classical north Indian music and bansuri with Amiya Dasgupta , tabla and rhythm with Taranath Rao as well as south Indian , Jawan and Balinese and Ghanaian music at CalArts . In 1984 he went to India on a Fulbright scholarship , where he was a student of Pannalal Ghosh , VG Karnad , Devendra Murdeshwar and Nityanand Haldipur until 1986 , and also had lessons with Ali Akbar Khan , Ravi Bellare and Rajeev Taranath .
Philipson was the soloist in the US première of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Sternenklang at the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival (1984) and of T. Sankaran's composition Lagu Misra at the CalArts World Music Festival in 1994. In 1993 the Guthrie Theater performed Girish Karnad 's Naga Mandala , on the Philipson participated as composer, musical director and performing musician.
He also worked as a companion to Balinese and Indian dancers such as Viji Prakash , Nandita Behera , Maulik Shah , Bhairavi Kumar and Oguri .
Since the late 1990s he has been a member of Wadada Leo Smith's Ensemble N'Da Kulture and Adam Rudolph's go: organic orchestra , with each of which he recorded several albums as a soloist. In 2000 he recorded the album Venus Square Mars: Music for Deep Night with Mark Nauseef .
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| SURNAME | Philipson, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American bansuri player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |