Sheema Mukherjee is a British composer and sitar player. She is best known for her work with musical collective Transglobal Underground and The Imagined Village. She is the niece of sitarist Nikhil Banerjee. In 2005, Billboard referred to her as a "sitar prodigy".[1]
Sheema Mukherjee | |
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 Sheema Mukherjee in concert, 2008 | |
| Background information | |
| Instrument | Sitar |
| Years active | 1998 – present |
Mukherjee studied Hindustani classical music under her uncle Nikhil Banerjee, Ali Akbar Khan and later Aashish Khan.[2] In 1998 she joined Transglobal Underground. In 2005, she composed the music for the West Yorkshire Playhouse productions Gluey and the Lion and Non-Contact Time. She also composed the score for the Tamasha Theatre Company's 2009 musical Wuthering Heights.[3] Her composition "Bending in the Dark" was featured during the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4]
Her first solo debut album, Sheema was released on 28 August 2014 by the independent vinyl label ECC100 Records and was well received.[5]
References
edit- ^ Philip Van Vleck (14 May 2005). "World". Billboard. p. 47.
- ^ "El Festival Womad de Cáceres contará con la actuación de la intérprete de música india Sheema Mukherjee". Extremadura de hoy (in Spanish). 3 May 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Walker, Lynne (1 June 2012). "Heathcliffe hits exotic new heights". The Independent. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
- ^ "Bury St Edmunds Festival 2012's Cultural Olympiad theme". BBC. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Sheema Mukherjee: Sheema review – a singular creation". Observer. 24 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.