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38th Annual Seminar – Nov. 11 – 17, 2023

Dear Students and Friends,

It is a pleasure to announce the 38th Annual Seminar of the Ali Akbar College of Music – Switzerland, which will take place from November 11 -17, 2023! The teaching during this seminar will take place both live and online.

The 38th Annual Seminar features the following activities:

I. Intensive Instrumental and Vocal Seminar: November 11 – 17

II. Intensive Tabla Seminar with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri: November 11 -17

I. Intensive Instrumental and Vocal Seminar: November 11 -17

Ken Zuckerman – This seminar will take place both live and online via Zoom and will consist of classes for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Classes include tala exercises, instrumental and vocal repertoire and instrumental workshops.

Daniel Bradley – This sitar seminar will take place live at the Musik Akademie Basel. The teaching will be done in a “master class” format, in which Daniel will work individually with one student at a time with the other students permitted to observe. After registering for the seminar, the sitar students will be requested to arrange their lesson times directly with Daniel.

Nadia Oberli and Vittoria Pagani will give live review classes in the Klaus-Linder Saal of the Music Academy of Basel. These lessons will review the compositions that are being taught in the vocal and instrumental classes of Ken Zuckerman.

II. Intensive Tabla Seminar with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri: November 11 – 17

Our tabla maestro, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, will give live classes for beginning, intermediate and advanced students, at the Musik Akademie Basel.

Tuition fees:
Full participation in the seminar, including vocal, tala, instrumental (sitar, sarod, tabla & western instruments), and all review classes is as follows: for all 7 days, CHF 550.-
— Full participation in all of 6 days of vocal and instrumental classes, without any review classes, costs CHF 450.-
— Full participation in either 6 days of vocal or instrumental classes, without any review classes for 6 days costs CHF 350.-
Tabla classes with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri cost CHF 90.- per day. (Students may also take part as observers in the lessons that they are not actively attending without paying any additional fees.)
Sitar lessons with Daniel Bradley cost CHF 70.- per day. (Students may also take part as observers in the lessons that they are not actively attending without paying any additional fees.)

— The costs for the “live” review classes with Nadia Oberli & Vittoria Pagani, as well as “live” individual lessons, will be determined when we know how many students will be participating.
— Please contact the College if your participation in the Seminar does not fall into any of the above listed categories. (For example, if you cannot attend classes for all 7 days or if you wish to participate in a mixture of classes). We will then let you know what the costs will be. In some cases, tuition reductions may be possible to arrange.

– – Students of the 38th Annual Seminar can purchase tickets for the concert on Nov. 12th at the Student rate of Fr. 30.-

To register for the seminar, please send an email to us at info@aliakbarcollege.org

2023 Seminar Schedule / Stundenplan
Seminar schedule 2023 corrected screenshot of doc

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New! Online classes and video recordings of lessons

One of the few “silver linings” of the pandemic was that I (and many of my music teacher colleagues), were forced to immediately switch to online teaching. I was determined to make the best of teaching on Zoom and have found that although it cannot replace “in person” learning, it provides a very useful way of teaching the incredible compositions of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. By providing students with a high quality, latency-free recording of each lesson, the students have been able to continue learning these essential compositions at home, at their own pace and completely in accordance with the age old practice of non-written tradition, the way that Indian classical music has been passed on for thousands of years! This is a huge advantage and a very important supplement to in-person, individual instruction. Therefore as we try to transition back into live classroom learning, I will continue to record all of the lessons so that each student can review the material at home, with their full attention on the teacher presenting the composition and no distraction from the other students in the group trying to simultaneously figure out the material. In addition, there is no tendency to feel shy about making mistakes and distracting the other students, as well as the teacher. In short, these recordings provide a win – win situation! And if these weren’t already enough reasons to embrace this new form of learning, an added benefit is that it isn’t even necessary to attend the live class, because the recording links are sent to everyone, those who live in Basel, other parts of Switzerland or as we have seen, anywhere in the world!

Here are a few brief video clips of the lesson recordings:

Raga Jogiya Kalingra – Alap phrases

Raga Jogiya Kalingra – Instrumental composition


Video – Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Ali Akbar College

The Ali Akbar College of Music – Switzerland recently celebrated 30 years of activities in Basel: 1985 – 2015. This video / photo / music documentary gives of glimpse of the activities of the College during the past three decades!



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With thanks and greetings! Mit Dank und herzlichen Grüssen!

Ken Zuckerman
Ali Akbar College of Music

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