Jon Sterckx

United Kingdom,

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.

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