Uwe Neumann, Sitar and Sansa

Uwe Neumann, Sitar and Sansa, has lived and studied full time for 10 years in India with the sitarmaestro Pandit Indranil Bhattacharya and received a Bachelors and Master-of-Music Degree on Sitar from Indian University in Shantiniketan.
He had studied classical guitar and jazz-rock in Germany 1974-86. He founded Ragleela in 1990 and had many classical, world-music and television concerts all over India, including a unique performance at the Millennium-Concert for H.H. the Dalai Lama in Benares, at the Alliance Francaise in Pondicherry, at the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture with tabla virtuoso Subhen Chatterjee and in the prestigious hall Rabindra-Sadan in Calcutta.
Uwe Neumann arrived in Canada in the year 2000 to share the treasures of this music and gave since then more than 200 concerts with Ragleela, Sitaria and other world music projects like at the Festival Musique Multi Montréal with Radio-Canada recording, Festival "Rhythms of the World" Victoriaville, International Jazz Festival in Montreal with NoEMI, Diversity and Starbelly Festivals in BC with Adham Shaikh, East-meets-West Concert Series at Concordia University, International Jazz Festival in Quebec with NoEMI, Asian Heritage Festival 2002,03,04,05, Performances with tabla virtuoso Partha Sarathi Mukherjee and Kathak-dancer Akram Khan, Salle La Basoche in Gatineau.

Ragleela is Uwe Neumann, Jean-Marc Hébert, Bertil Schulrabe, Marie-Soleil Bélanger, and Eric Breton.