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Hindustani, Sarod

Alam Khan

Alam Khan was born in California in 1982. He studied sarod under his father, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in the guru-shishya tradition from age seven. Khan is the direct heir to the legacy of the Senia Maihar gharana which...
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Dance, Dance
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Akram Khan MBE

Akram Khan may be trained in classical kathak dance, but he is not a classicist. Born in...
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Hindustani, Sarod
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s illustrious career has lasted almost seven decades since his debut at the...
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Kirtan, Harmonium, Vocal
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Bhai Anantvir Singh

Bhai Anantvir Singh is a renowned kirtan exponent, who has spent a lifetime taking the devotional...
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Hindustani, Tabla
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Aneesh Pradhan  

To say that tabla player Dr. Aneesh Pradhan has a multi-faceted personality would be a gross...
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Percussion, Tabla
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Pandit Anindo Chatterjee

Pandit Anindo Chatterjee is one of the most accomplished tabla players of the modern age, known...
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Hindustani, Sitar
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Anupama Bhagwat

Anupama Bhagwat’s sitar style exemplifies the best elements of the Imdadkhani gharana -...
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Carnatic, Mridangam
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Arjun Kumar

Arjun Kumar was born into a family of mridangam artists, and upholds their renowned style on the...
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Hindustani, Esraj
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Arshad Khan

Arshad Khan is a leading exponent of the esraj, a rare bowed-fretted instrument from Bengal, long...
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Carnatic, Vocal
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Aruna Sairam

Aruna Sairam’s voice brings a husky authority to modern Carnatic song. She first learnt to sing...
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Khayal, Vocal
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Dr. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande’s khayal vocal style draws on her PhD in Biochemistry as well as the...
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Shujaat Khan

Ustad Shujaat Khan hails from the illustrious Etawah (‘Imdadkhani’) gharana alongside greats such...

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Omkar Dadarkar

Omkar Dadarkar’s khayal style is receiving growing plaudits across the world. He first learned...

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Nahid Siddiqui

Nahid Siddiqui is one of the world’s leading kathak dancers. She infuses deep, personal artistry...

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Arshad Khan

Arshad Khan is a leading exponent of the esraj, a rare bowed-fretted instrument from Bengal, long...

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Shivkumar Sharma

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is one of very few instrumentalists who has near-single-handedly put their instrument on the...

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Aruna Sairam

Aruna Sairam’s voice brings a husky authority to modern Carnatic song. She first learnt to sing by listening to her...

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Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers

Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers are among the world’s very finest exponents of Qawwali - a hypontic,...

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Waseem Ahmed Khan

Waseem Ahmed Khan’s lineage is enviable. An exponent of the Agra gharana, Khan is a direct descendent of the...

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