Rudresh Mahanthappa for a one-night-only concert at Onassis Cultural Centre

At 44, Mahanthappa has been declared Saxophonist of the Year three times by the Jazz Journalists Association, has won the coveted Doris Duke Performing Artist Award for his enviable dedication to jazz, has received a research grant from the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation and has been commissioned to compose dozens of works.

These many distinctions serve to applaud the ways in which Mahanthappa - the child of Indian immigrants in the US - has explored his Southern Indian musical heritage and translated it into his own personal idiom, coining multicultural hybrids which he uses as an approach to contemporary jazz.