Saskia Rao-de Haas

Saskia Rao-de Haas

Saskia Rao-de Haas is a Dutch cellist based in Delhi, India. She is the first performer to adapt the cello to the performance of North Indian classical music and uses a specially constructed cello for this purpose, with five playing strings and ten sympathetic strings. She has studied Indian music with Koustav Ray, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Sumati Mutatkar, D. K. Datar, and Deepak Chowdhury.

Rao-de Haas is married to the sitarist Shubhendra Rao.

External links

* [http://www.saskiarao.com/ Saskia Rao-de Haas official site]
* [http://www.rhymerecords.com/sitarcello.aspx Rao-de Haas 2-CD set from Rhyme Records website]
* [http://www.wereldomroep.nl/themes/cultuur/saskiarao021127.html radio-documentary (59 min., 2002) on Saskia Rao-de Haas]


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