Yousuf Ali Khan

Surtaal Performing Arts organises and presents a variety of high quality programmes concerning South Asian music. Its Director is Yousuf Ali Khan, a renowned Tabla player of classical and ethnic music and an experienced teacher of Indian music in Local Education Authority and private schools. Thus the leadership of musical programming lies in high quality musical performance. 

Yousuf Ali Khan has served for many years as a teacher of Tabla, Harmonium and singing at Local Education Authority Schools including the Leciestershire School of Music and various borough councils in the London area. He has also been teaching at private schools in East London and at his own Surtaal School of Indian Music located in Edmonton, North London. He has organised and performed at a number of lecture demonstration offered by Local Education Authorities and private bodies. Yousuf Ali Khan has given performances with distinguished artists in many places in the UK and in other countries including USA, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Russia, India and Bangladesh. He has performed with well known artists of Sitar, Sarod, Santoor, with Singers of classical, traditional and folk music and with dancers of different schools.

Yousuf's special interest lies in Asian sub-continent traditional folk, folk dance, Bollywood music and contemporary as well as in inter-cultural blending of music, for example, his performances and compositions for Grand Union Orchestra, a renowned Orchestra group in the UK, as well as other combinations of Indian, western and other music, classical to contemporary.