Ganesh & Kumaresh Rajagopalan are Carnatic music’s foremost violin brothers, having performed together for over four decades. Their insurance broker father was a talented amateur violinist, and started teaching them at the...
Akkarai Subhalakshmi is a leading Carnatic violinist. Her grandmother R Sornambal was an expert in harikatha (devotional musical storytelling), and she grew up in the music school founded by her father Akkarai...
Meeta Pandit is a renowned khayal singer from the Gwalior gharana. Her grandfather Pandit Krishna Rao Shankar and father Pandit Laxmanrao Krishnarao were her first gurus – she is the sixth generation...
Arshad Khan is a leading exponent of the esraj, a rare bowed-fretted instrument from Bengal, long associated with Sikh devotional music. The esraj has been declining in popularity for decades, but is...
Milind Kulkarni is a modern exponent of Hindustani classical harmonium. Starting at the age of seven, he learned fast under the tutelage of successive gurus – Vasantrao Gurav, Anna Diwan, and Pramod...
Pandit Ranendranath ‘Ronu’ Majumdar is a bansuri master from Benares. His father was a homeopathic doctor, oil painter, and amateur flautist who took lessons from Pandit Pannalal Ghosh, who provided him with...
Dr. Kadri Gopalnath (1949 – 2019) was one of the most versatile Carnatic musicians and a creative genius. He pioneered to apply a purely western instrument – the alto saxophone – into Carnatic music, making it a part of...
Chinmay Kolhatkar received his initial music training from Rajprasad Dharmadhikari, in Kolhapur. He is currently under the tutelage of the noted harmonium player Dr. Arvind Thatte. After completing his graduation in Electronics,...
Abhisek Lahiri is a gharana-blending young sarod player, who fuses ideas from the Shahjahanpur, Maihar, and Senia Bangash traditions. Early training under his father Pandit Alok Lahiri has led to a successful...