Zakir Hussain

Voted “Best Drummer” in World Music in Modern Drummer’s 2007 Reader’s Poll, Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain is widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement. Hussain will tour North America with Maestros in Concert, a new concert designed to expose audiences to a wide range of Indian music and culture and will perform with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma.“A musician of Paganini-esque virtuosity… Apparently with no more then ten fingers, Hussain managed to raise a veritable orchestra of percussion sounds, each distinctive and all rushing together.”— San Francisco Chronicle