Rishab Rikhiram Sharma's Sitar for Mental Health combines music and meditation. He reflects on his experiences playing sitar, being mentored by Pandit Ravi Shankar, and the importance of improving the ...

Purbayan Chatterjee innovates Indian classical sitar music by blending traditional ragas with modern elements, collaborating with global artists, and utilizing cutting-edge technology. His approach ...

The New England Conservatory of Music Intercultural Institute, is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week with a symposium on bimusicality. Bimusicality is when artists can perform in two distinct ...

Contemporary sitar artist Anoushka Shankar, one of Indian classical music’s most important modern figures, has witnessed just about every kind of live audience across her two decades touring the world ...

For a long time, the sitar has been seen as an instrument of tradition, deeply tied to Indian classical music, discipline, and centuries-old practice. Its identity was shaped by maestros like Ravi ...

Baby boomers may remember classical sitar player Ravi Shankar from his legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, or his influence on popular music culture at the time. But ...

New York-based sitar player Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, the last disciple of late sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar, is on a tour of the country where he is presenting his music in the hopes of ...

SOUTH BEND — The Asian Indian Classical Music Society of Michiana presents “Scintillating Sounds of Sitar” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library. The concert, of ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Sursagar, in association with ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Alliance Francaise and supported by Canara Union, will present Hindustani Raagdhaari Sangeet featuring sitarist Partha Chatterjee and Medha ...