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Olivia Moore

Olivia Moore is one of the UK's most innovative and creative violinists. She performs with her band Unfurl, a quintet who collaborates, drawing from their diverse influences of Jazz, Indian and Arabic rhythms. They have appeared at most of the main UK Jazz festivals including the Manchester, Marsden, Marlborough, Brecon and London Jazz Festivals and at jazz clubs and theatre venues across the country.

She has performed internationally with tabla players Mukesh Jadhav from Pune, Kousic Sen from UK and has given solo recitals in the UK. From 2005-2009 she played with Tarang, the National South Asian Music Ensemble in venues such as The Bridgwater Hall and The Purcell Room. She performed with bansuri player Lisa Mallett and sitarist Jonathan Meyer at the Shambala Festival in 2010 and also plays concerts with Razwan Sarwar (piano) and Mohinder Singh (tabla) and Guiliano Modarelli (guitar).

Olivia is an experienced teacher of Indian music having taught at The Academy of Indian Culture and Education and at St Margaret's primary school, Manchester. She teaches Indian music on the violin privately and in workshop situations for example at The Royal Northern College of Music and The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

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KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

Kuchipudi

A dance rooted in antiquity and religious art linking to temples and spiritual belief; performance is expressed with rhythmic gestures as sign language to mime a story.

Santoor

A classic ancient Indian instrument that is played while sitting with the instrument across the lap, and the strings are lightly stroked with a pair of light wooden mallets.