Chamber Music in the Atrium: Tejas Nair
- Performance
Ames Family Atrium
Image courtesy of Tejas Nair
About The Event
This evening’s Chamber Music in the Atrium concert features Tejas Nair, a composer and esraj player with roots in Indian classical music. His music combines Western counterpoint and classical form with the ragas and talas of the East. Tejas trained as an esraj player from a young age under Hasu Patel, a disciple of Ustad Vilayat Khan, and studies konnakol, the South Indian tradition of spoken rhythms, under mridangam virtuoso Praveen Sparsh. He often composes for mixed ensembles featuring Indian and Western classical musicians. Tejas has found inspiration in the aesthetics of Kushan and Gandhara sculpture, which are represented extensively in the CMA’s permanent collection.
Sponsors
The 2026–27 Performing Arts Series is sponsored by the Musart Society. This program is made possible in part by the Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund, the P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund, and the Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Performing arts programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
