John Ball
John is an Indian Music specialist who plays both the Tabla drums and the 100 hundred string Santoor. He has trained in India with several Indian music masters including Pt. Yogesh Samsi and Ustad Harjinder Pal Singh. John is based at the University of Sheffield where he teaches Indian Music Performance, and runs an Indian Music Ensemble which features traditional Indian classical music played on western instruments. He is also the lead tabla tutor at South Asian Arts UK (Saa-Uk) in Leeds. John regular performs with both Indian Classical Music and Dance as well as several collaborative, mixed genre projects. He has toured with Balbir Singh Dance Company and Jaivant Patel Dance and most recently he has been an active member of Mishra, a collective combining Indian music and British Folk music, with whom he has toured and recorded two albums.
