About TTYE
Our goal at the Toronto Tabla Youth Ensemble (TTYE) is to transform the common tabla student into an elite tabla player. Thus for a player to be eligible for the Youth Ensemble they must be hand-picked by none other than our teacher, Ritesh Das who evaluates each student. When the TTYE comes together, we experience intense practice and rehearsal, at the same time enjoying what we do. Students in the ensemble enjoy playing because they practice hard and their effort shows during the ensemble’s performances. One of the key factors that keeps us together is motivating each other as team players.
The TTYE made their debut in November 2017 at the Harbourfront Centre during sold out show ‘Parampara’ featuring musicians and artists from Toronto and San Francisco.
Since then they recorded their first audio track along with a music video shot on a boat, appropriately titled ‘Sailing’, released January 2018. They have performed at numerous community outreach events, and fundraisers around Ontario as well as the Royal Ontario Museum. Currently they are working on recording their next single and music video to be released October 2018.