Bahauddin Dagar

October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM

The DiMenna Center, Cary Hall

Ustad Bahauddin Dagar is the world’s leading performer of the rudra veena today and the torchbearer of the Dagar vani style of dhrupad, the oldest living form of Indian classical music. FourOneOne is honored to present an afternoon performance as part of our ongoing multi-year collaboration with Bahauddin. Since 2023, this collaboration has spanned rehearsals, master classes, publications, live performances, and other forms of cross-stylistic exchange with New York’s many audiences and creative communities. Marking Ustad Dagar’s first return to New York since 2001, the project reconceives the living connection between Dagarvani dhrupad and New York-based audiences and artists, emphasizing social context, history and the creative lives of communities over virtuosity, individual genius, and technique.