Shawn Mativetsky

It gives me great pleasure to announce that for the fourth year in a row, a scholarship is available for this year's annual summer tabla workshop! Thanks to a generous donor, the scholarship will cover the $350 tuition fee…

I was recently asked to write an article for Percussive Notes magazine, which is a publication of the Percussive Arts Society. The intention of this article is to give some insight into the structure of a Benares-style…

It gives me great pleasure to announce that for the third year in a row, a scholarship is available for this year's annual summer tabla workshop! Thanks to a generous donor, the scholarship will cover the $350 tuition fee for…

I'm happy to report that, as planned, Rivers has been recorded this past December 29 and 30 at Number 9 Audio in Toronto, with George Koller on dilruba, and sound engineer Bernie Cisternas! We're in the process of finalizing the…

The Rivers cover photo is especially meaningful to me, as it is a composite of two photos that I took myself. This is an idea that I've had for a long time, and to see it finally come together is…

Dear friends, 

I am excited to announce that I will soon be recording my first traditional solo tabla album, RIVERS! This will be a full-length tabla solo, in the style of the Benares gharana; a rhythmic journey to Varanasi…

This past May, I was fortunate to have a few performances and workshops booked in Europe! 

Nottingham - home of Robin Hood!

First stop - Nottingham, UK, where I gave a couple of workshops at the University…

Over the past several years, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with guitarist Tim Brady for an annual series of creative music-making and improvisation workshops called the Symphonie du Sud-Ouest. We just completed our eighth season; wow! We’ve…

It gives me great pleasure to announce that for the second year in a row, a scholarship is available for this year's annual summer tabla workshop! Thanks to a generous donor, the scholarship will cover the $300 tuition fee for…

The Benares Baaj Story is an archival project by the Pandit Ram Sahai Sangit Vidyalaya (PRSSV), documenting the history of the Benares gharana (the style of tabla playing that I learned to play). Founded in London in 1987 by my…