The Performers
“Music will play a most important role in bringing about world oneness, for music embodies the Universal Heart, the Oneness-Heart. Music transcends the barriers of nations, nationalities and religions.” Sri Chinmoy
The Sahadeva Ensemble
A powerful, dynamic and haunting presentation of the music and poetry of Indian composer Sri Chinmoy arranged and conducted by Sahadeva Torpy.
Here are a selection of tracks taken from different concerts around the world. All songs composed by Sri Chinmoy and arranged by Sahadeva Torpy.
The Sahadeva Ensemble has been an integral part of the International Songs of the Soul concert tours since 2012. In their concerts you are warmly invited to experience meditation in music, music for the soul, to share your aspirations for Oneness and Peace in our world and to leave inspired, energised and emboldened. Musicians have been selected from across the globe. Our string section is from Austria, Canada, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Our percussionists are from Italy and Ireland, our bass player is from Canada and our singers range from over 7 different countries.
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Ananda
Ananda is a group of male singers and musicians based mainly in various locations around Great Britain. We arrange the beautiful and haunting melodies of Sri Chinmoy for guitar, harmonium, mandolin, sitar, tablas, violin, keyboard, percussion and voice. All the songs have a meditative quality and we try to express this quality whilst performing. For these series of A New World of Peace concerts other musicians from around the world have joined the group from Austria, Italy, Iceland, The Netherlands and the USA.
We perform in concerts all over the UK and Europe. We have played in both Bristol and Lincoln Cathedrals, Glasgow Mela, the Louvre in Paris, the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, Rydal Cave in the Lake District and to around 1000 people at Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York.
Awakening
Awakening is an all-female classical ensemble bringing together voices, cello and piano in a deeply expressive exploration of the music of Sri Chinmoy.
For A New World of Peace, the ensemble presents a collection of Sri Chinmoy’s spiritual melodies in beautiful new arrangements by Icelandic pianist and arranger Laufey Haraldsdottir. Drawing upon the warmth of the human voice, the rich resonance of the cello and the intimacy of the piano, the arrangements reveal a contemplative and deeply lyrical dimension to these simple, heartfelt compositions.
Sri Chinmoy’s music is rooted in the inner journey — expressing peace, aspiration, love, joy and the search for a deeper connection with the spiritual heart. Through a refined classical sound, Awakening invites the audience into a musical space of stillness, beauty and reflection.
“Music helps the spiritual seeker to go deep within to get the utmost satisfaction from life, from truth, from reality. The spiritual life, in turn, helps music to offer its capacity and its strength, which is the soul’s light, to the world at large.” Sri Chinmoy
