User:Ludwigpesch

Ludwig Pesch is based in Amsterdam. A flautist, musicologist and educator trained in Western and Carnatic music, he authored "The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music". His music has been described as "an eloquent demonstration of the universal fact that music transcendents cultural and linguistic barriers" (Indian Express); "captivating and chaste rendition ...  a golden link with the West." (Another Garland: A Biographical Dictionary of Carnatic Composers and Musicians; Chennai, 1993). "Pesch created melodies that reached one's heart" (Eindhovens Dagblad, The Netherlands)

Interested in “other” ways of teaching and sharing music, he studied South Indian music at the Kalakshetra (Diploma and Post-Diploma courses) after serving as church organist and studying music and musicology in Freiburg (Germany). He specialized in bamboo flute under the guidance of his Indian teacher Ramachandra Shastry (1906-92), an adherent to the personalized gurukula system of teaching with whom he performed on many occasions.

In 2006-7 he taught at the Bern University of the Arts Switzerland based on a HKB research project titled "Sam, Reflection, Gathering Together!" (www.sam.mimemo.net) and as part of the 2007 "Musik und Mensch" colloquium series of the Pädagogische Hochschule FHNW in Switzerland.

He developed English and German online courses for the distance education department of Lüneburg University, Germany (www.carnaticstudent.org). He was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Award “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the spread of knowledge about India's spirit and life”. --Ludwigpesch (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2010 (UTC)