Artist Profiles: Aruna Sairam
Aruna Sairam was born October 30, 1952. Her virtuosity is expressed through a stunningly beautiful voice coupled with extraordinarily skilled improvisation and an ability to…
Artist Profiles: Badal Roy
Amerendra ‘Badal’ Roy Choudhury arrived in New York in 1968 with a pair of tablas and eight dollars in his pocket. In three days he…
Artist Profiles: Ashwin Batish
Ashwin Batish is a composer, performer, teacher of music, and recording artist. He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. His field of expertise includes…
Artist Profiles: Ashim Mallick
Sitar player Ashim Mallick was born and brought up in a family where music is the first passion. Ashim started learning Sitar at the age…
Artist Profiles: Ananda Shankar
Ananda was born in Almora, Uttar Pradesh in 1942. The son of dancers Uday and Amala Shankar and the nephew of Pandit Ravi Shankar, he…
Artist Profiles: Amjad Ali Khan
Extraordinary New Dehli sarod player Amjad Ali Khan has established a reputation as one of the living legends of Indian classical instrumental music and is…
Artist Profiles: Arnab Chakrabarty
Arnab Chakrabarty was born in Bombay, India, in 1979. His musical training started at the age of three and by the time he was five,…
Artist Profiles: Anjan Chattopadhya
Sitar maestro Anjan Chattopadhyay was born in a family of culture and aristocracy, in Calcutta. He was brought up in an environment of soft, sweet…
The First World Music Networking Conference to Be Held in Russia in July 2018
Kamwa international world music conference is the first three-day conference in Russia, aimed at the development of Russian ethno-music industry, and organized by Kamwa festival.…
Urban Classical Music From Iran
Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami – Melodic Circles – Urban Classical Music From Iran (ARC Records EUCD2794, 2018) It is often said of traditional Iranian…