In-Person and Online: Dharma Rhythms Summer Music Festival – Violin & Sound Performance
featuring Michael Braudy with guitarist George Kormendi
Saturday, August 8th, 2026 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
This concert will include Western classical violin music, and Indian music with violin and voice. The guitar will join the violin in the Indian music, in addition to selections of his own improvisations. Among the Western violin music will be solo Bach, and a beautiful piece by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov. There will be moments of silence between musical selections, and opportunities to join in the vocalizations.
The goal of this evening will be a meditative experience through music. With attention to the breath and awareness of the vibration of the music, we will enjoy an energizing and calming effect as well as in the pure delight of the music.
This musical gathering is part of New York Insight’s Dharma Rhythms Summer Music Festival.
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Teacher(s)
Michael Braudy
Michael Braudy, a violinist in Western, North Indian and Celtic music, gives Sound and Health through Music workshops, which use the silence between musical experiences as the way to greater awareness of the body, emotions and mind. He is a versatile performer, and as an improviser he has collaborated with vocalists, storytellers and other creative artists. He studied Western violin with Raphael Bronstein and Dorothy Delay, and Indian music with Acharya Roop Verma, Pandit V.G. Jog and Pt. Krishna Bhatt. He has performed in the US, England and Scotland and India, including at the International Festival in Jaipur. He has recorded in India a series of Indian ragas for health CDs including Sumanas (Ragas for the Heart), Vriddhi and Awakening Peace. For more information, please go to www.michaelbraudy.com and www.SoundAndHealth.org.
George Kormendi
George Kormendi currently divides his time between studying and teaching Tai Chi and working on guitar with musicians on various projects. While in his teens, George played in bands which focused on improvisation. Later, inspired by the music of Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, George majored in music at Hampshire College, then enrolled in the Berklee School of Music. In his twenties, George studied and performed with Attila Zoller, who along with George’s friend Joe Fonda introduced George to musicians in the NY, Connecticut, and Boston jazz community. George is grateful to his friend, Michael Braudy, who further opened him to the wonderful world of classical Hindustani music.