Angela Hina Gates

Biography for musicians on the newly released album:
‘Love Forever’

This album was born from the inspiration of four years of song writing by Angela Hina Gates. She shared the songs with friends who perform world music and they have added their magic and spice to make this album appeal to a large audience who appreciate sublime uplifting music of the heart.

Angela Hina Gates grew up with a great indie music tradition in Melbourne going to lots of local gigs and in the 90’s she was playing acoustic sets including covers from the Sundays ‘Reading Writing and Arithmetic’ with a friend at Central Club and the Empress.
She has studied singing with teachers such as Antonio Lancuba for opera and Bikram Malhar for Indian Classical raga. She has played harmonium and tanpura for devotional music in America, India and Australia.
Recently she was performing harmonium and singing at the Northcote Uniting Church with the devotional music group Ecstatic Sound Circle. She performed with the eleven piece world music ensemble for the Harmonius Gathering on 11th November 2011 at Glen Eira Auditorium.
Her voice expresses the beauty and vulnerability of the human heart.

Pin Rada – sound engineer, mixing and mastering album ‘ Love Forever’. Also performing lyra, sarangi and ney flute on many tracs. Pin is a world music producer and multi-instrumentalist performer based in Melbourne, Australia who as a migrant from Chile, regularly collaborates in studio work and on stage with other musicians from diverse backgrounds. He specializes in unique Eastern bowed and wind instruments including the North Indian Sarangi, Turkish Ney ad Creten Lyra. He has studied extensively in Turkey, Greece and India and has a passion for modal composition and improvisation.
He produces recordings ad is gaining a reputation for his characteristic versatility across a wide range of instrumentation. Locally in Australia he has worked with an enormous variety of other migrant and ethnic Australian musicians. He regularly travels and collaborates overseas with musicians from Turkey, India and Thailand and has worked extensively in Istanbul with a variety of musicians. He performed with the eleven piece world music ensemble for the Harmonius Gathering on 11th November
2011 at Glen Eira Auditorium.

Ami Hasson – has touched each song with gorgeous Percussion, arrangement ideas and irresistible energy! Ami is an Australian based musician and music events producer. Ami was born and raised in Israel to a North African family of Morocco and Libya. He has been drumming since he was 13 years old and through his journey he developed his skills on drum kit and eastern percussion including djembe, cajon, bongos, frame drum, darbuka, udu, timbales and shakers. Five years ago he moved to Australia and has been involved with
many different local and international musicians as a percussionist and vocalist. Ami is known for his great sense of music, organic improvisations and powerful presence on stage and in studio recordings. Ami also produced and managed a few bands including one that performed at the Australia Day concert to 11,000 people as the final act.
He was the event producer and performer with the eleven piece world music ensemble for the Harmonius Gathering on 11th November 2011 at the Glen Eira Auditorium.
He is also a sound therapist – using the therapeutic qualities of music and sound produced by crystal bowls/chimes/gongs and voice to bring healing, harmony and balance.

Glen Kniebeiss – performs tabla with the cream of Indian classical musicians who visit Australia. Glen Kniebeiss has devoted himself to playing table since 1998. He has studied with great masters in Indian including Ustad Anthony Dass, Pandit Ishwar Lal Mishra and Pandit Lacchu Maharaj. Glen received funding from the Australian Council for the Arts and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to study table in India during 2003/04 and was again awarded funding from the Australian Council in 2010 for further tabla studies. Glen’s playing style is emotional and expressive with subtle nuance and a very clear sound. Glen is one of the finest table artists in Australian and has performed at
many festivals and concerts around the country. He has performed in India, Japan, Holland and Denmark. He performs regularly with Vinod Prasanna in Melbourne. He performed with the eleven piece world music ensemble for the Harmonius Gathering on 11th November 2011

Vinod Prasanna – bansuri flute – 15th generation bansuri flute player in his family and every note he plays is sweet and divine. Vinod Prasanna inherited the musical treasure of his ancestors. From the King’s court of old to the modern music stage, the Prasanna family have performed bansuri flute for more than two and a half centuries. His passion, technical brilliance and performance style charms audiences in solo, duo and world music ensembles. He performed with the eleven piece world music ensemble for the Harmonius Gathering on 1