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CHICAGO, IL (November 18, 2005) - North Park University's instructor of Flute
and World Music, Lyon Leifer, has been awarded a Senior Fulbright
Fellowship to India. The fellowship, for 2005-2006, will allow Leifer to
pursue his project, "Mastering the Bansuri, a Lifelong Quest."
The bansuri, is a keyless, bamboo, flute; an important instrument in
Indian music. A Julliard graduate, Leifer began studying bansuri and
Indian music in 1965 during his first Fulbright fellowship.
Since that time, he has won wide recognition for his mastery of both
Western and Indian flute music. He performs with a number of prestigious
ensembles in Chicago, including Music of the Baroque, Ars Viva and the
Chicago Opera Theater. He has given Indian music recitals across the
United States, and has appeared in concert and offered master classes in
Great Britain, China, India, Venezuela, Cuba, Barbados, Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, and Turkey. His renditions of Indian classical music have been
widely acclaimed in the Indian press.
Leifer will use the grant to fund a residency at Sangeet Mahabharati, a
well-known institution in Mumbai, India. While there, he will study
North Indian classical music with that institution's principal, the
highly regarded sitarist, Nayan Ghosh and provide flute lessons and
music coaching in Western classical music with a particular focus on
North American flute repertory.
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