Maestros in Fusion
Experience a fusion of classical and jazz music with an Indian spin, featuring music from Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, Rakesh Chaurasia and more.
In this performance of diverse musical styles and inspirations, Grammy winners Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, Rakesh Chaurasia take to the stage, alongside music maestros Louiz Banks, Sheldon D’Silva and Gino Banks.
Ustad Zakir Hussain is an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer.
Shankar Mahadevan is a Grammy-winning Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films.
Louiz Banks is an Indian film composer, record producer, keyboardist, and singer. He has been referred to as the ‘godfather of Indian jazz’.
Rakesh Chaurasia is an Indian flautist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute. He is the nephew of flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia.
Gino Banks is an Indian drummer and member of the fusion band ‘Nexus’.
Performers
Shankar Mahadevan vocals
Zakir Hussain tabla
Need to know
For your visit
This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
On Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.