Blossoming: santoor virtuoso Eeshar Singh in collaboration with Royal Northern Sinfonia at The Glasshouse, Gateshead

Eeshar Singh & Royal Northern Sinfonia

As part of GemArts‘ Masala Festival at The Glasshouse in Gateshead on 18 July 2025, santoor virtuoso Eeshar Singh is collaborating with Royal Northern Sinfonia on Blossoming, a live performance that Indian classical instrumentation with Western orchestration and neoclassical textures.

Musicians from Royal Northern Sinfonia will join Eeshar Singh (santoor), Jeevan Singh (percussion) and multi-instrumentalist Sirrjan Singh for an evening that promises to be an immersive journey of music and storytelling inspired by ancient mythology and Indic folklore. The work is based on Eeshar Singh’s EP, Blossoming which came out last year. The Indian santoor is a hammered dulcimer.

Eeshar Singh has also written the score for the Suraj Podcast, a chapter by chapter summary in English of the most famed pre-colonial Sikh historical text The Suraj Prakash, where Singh’s work blends modern sound design elements with traditional Raag structures and instrumentation to create a captivating audio experience that merges his passion for music with his love for storytelling,

Full details from The Glasshouse website.