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William Rossel - longtime disciple of legendary Tabla Maestro Padma Shri Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri - is a talented and versatile tabla player, educator, archivist, and musical innovator.
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Initiated in Hindustani classical music over 20 years ago by sitarist Nalini Vinayak, William has been training under Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College of Music since 2006.
In 2010, under the mentorship of his Guru, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in North Indian Classical Music Performance from the California Institute of the Arts.
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William has performed with such artists as Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Sri Alam Khan, Sri Arjun Verma, Sri Manik Khan, Sri Nilan Chaudhuri, Sri Suman Laha, and many others, and has performed at prestigious venues including the War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco), Harbourfront Performing Arts Center (Toronto), Luis Ángel Arango Concert Hall (Bogotá), San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Fort Mason Center of Arts and Culture, Ali Akbar College of Music, Aashish Khan School of World Music (Kolkata), and many others.
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William is Designer, Principle Archivist, and sitting Board Member of the Swapan Chaudhuri Digital Tabla Library, an online database dedicated to the preservation of the teaching and performance legacy of his Guru.
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He is also the creator of the Tihai Clock, and Tihai Pro (available in the App Store) which are unique means of calculating all possible North Indian rhythmic patterns known as Tihai.
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William is a longtime faculty member of the Ali Akbar College of Music. He is a Professor in the Music Department at Yuba College, where he is Director of the YC Indian Music Ensemble, which he created in 2016. He is also a Lecturer at the California College of the Arts, where he teaches World Music.
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William lives in San Anselmo, California, where he teaches tabla privately from his home, and through the Ali Akbar College of Music.
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