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The Hutchins Consort presents: Colors of Autumn featuring Pt. Kartik Seshadri

The Hutchins Consort is joined by one of the great performers of our time on Sitar, Pt.
Kartik Seshadri. Pt. Seshadri will perform his Concerto for Sitar, which uses Indian Ragas
in extraordinary ways to exploit the full color of the Sitar with Western instruments. Other
works celebrating this season of color will include Jeffrey Harrington's haunting Song of
R'lyeh as well as tributes to Dia de los Muertos and Halloween.

Performers:
Pt. Kartik Seshadri, Composer and Sitar
The Hutchins Consort:
Steve Huber, Treble
Bethany Grace, Soprano
Chris Woods, Mezzo
Erin Breene, Alto
Pete Jacobson, Tenor
Maksim Velichkin, Baritone
Joe McNalley, Artistic Dirctctor, Bass
Scott Worthington, Contrabass
other guests:
John Mark Harris, Keyboards

About the Hutchins Consort: The Hutchins Consort plays on the eight scaled violins
designed and built by luthier Dr. Carleen Hutchins, whose research into the acoustic
properties of string instruments resulted in an innovative process called free-plate tuning; a
precise method of refining the top and back plates of a violin before it is assembled to bring
it to peak acoustic performance. The fruits of her labor are the eight Hutchins violins,
ranging in size from the 18.5-inch treble to the 7.2-foot contrabass. Like all violins, these
instruments capture the emotional element of the music. They have the additional unique
advantage of being crafted as a complete set with the same harmonic DNA giving them
the ability to produce a unique array of sounds that add a new dimension to the works they
perform.