Tabla master Pandit Maruti Kurdekar had a massive heart attack on the morning of october 28, 2008.
We are all struck with grief. May his soul rest in peace.
Maruti Venkatesh Kurdekar has for a long time been working as a senior professor in tabla at the faculty of Indian music and dance of Kala Academy in Panjim, Goa.
He studied both tabla and pakawaj for 17 years under the guidance of renowned Guru Pandit Taranath Rao, Farukhabad gharana. Maruti is known as an accomplished solo performer; he is also an approved artist of Doordarshan and AIR (national Indian television and radio).
Maruti Kurdekar has for the last 30 years been devoted to guide tabla students, and he is a very well known teacher and pedagogue. He has toured Europe and Scandinavia on several occations and conducted lecture demonstrations and workshops at academies and schools abroad.
He took part in Sebastian Åberg's Sangeet Project a couple of years back on the Country & Eastern label.
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Å nej va trist. Hade ingen aning om detta . Han som verkade vara i så god form. Glömmer aldrig den heldagen jag satt med på hans lektioner. Vilken bra pedagaog han var och vilka bra elever han hade. Särskilt minns jag två tioåringar som spelade så att det rök...
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