Jon Sterckx

Weekly Tabla Classes in Swindon resume from September 14th 2019.

New beginners welcome.

Venue: Lawn Community Centre, Guildford Avenue, Swindon, SN3 1JL

Time: Saturdays during termtime.
Main class (for existing students): 10:00am - 11am
Beginners: 11:00am - Midday

Please contact Jon Sterckx to register: jon@jonsterckx.co.uk
www.jonsterckx.co.uk

About the teacher:

Jon Sterckx is a tabla player & innovative percussionist with over 25 years experience of working with world percussion & World Music.

He studied tabla in UK with Harjinder Singh Matharu and in India with Shivanand Bandhari at the Naadashree Arts Institute in Kumta, Karnataka, and with Kailash Nishad in Benares (Varanasi).
Jon was a selected performer at the National Celebration of British Asian Live Arts in 2008, and his sitar & tabla duo Samswara were voted ‘Best Group in South West & South Wales’ in the MTM South Asian & Ethnic Minorities Awards 2014. Jon has performed twice at TED events, and his performance at TEDxWarwick was selected from over 10,000 TED events globally for the TED Global Music Project.

Jon has delivered Tabla, World Music, Indian Music & World Rhythm workshops to schools, colleges, universities & festivals for 20 years.

Jon currently works as a percussion teacher at Wynstones School, near Stroud / Gloucester & as an instrumental tutor ( tabla & world percussion ) at Wynstones School, Thomas Keble School, Stroud, Sir Thomas Rich Grammar School, Gloucester & Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham. Workshops at festivals include WOMAD, Musicport & Larmer Tree Festivals.

Between 2003-2017 Jon was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, teaching modules in Ethnomusicology, World Music & Composition with the BA Music students.

Find more information about Jon & his work, music & videos here: www.jonsterckx.co.uk