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Aashish
Khan is considered among the
top handful of India’s
greatest living Sarod players.
His pedigree of training and
lineage is unquestionable, having
descended from the illustrious
family of great musicians.
Aashish Khan
was initiated into North Indian
classical music at the age of
5 by his grandfather, the legendary
Acharya Baba Allauddin Khan,
exponent of the “Senia
Beenkar” and “Senia
Rababiya” Gharana. His
talim (training) continues under
the guidance of his father Ustad
Ali Akbar Khan, and his aunt,
Smt. Annapurna Devi, presently
the leading exponents of the
“Senia Gharana”,
in the Beenkar and Rababiya
anga of the Druvapada style.
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Aashish gave his first public performance
at the age of 13, with his grandfather,
on the All Indian Radio “National
Program”, New Delhi, and in
the same year, performed with his
father and his grandfather at the
“Tansen Music Conference”,
Calcutta.
Besides his virtuosity as a traditional
sarodist, Aashish was a pioneer in
the establishment of world music genera,
as founder of the Indo-American musical
group “Shanti” in 1969/70
and later, fusion group, “The
Third Eye”; and composed a Sarod
Concerto in “raga” form.
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With Pandit Rave Shankar, he
has worked on many musical products
for both film and stage, including
Satyajit Rays’s “Apur
Sangsar”, “Parash
Pathar” and Sir Richard
Attenborough’s film “Gandhi”.
He has also worked with Maurice
Jarre on John Houston’s
film “The Man Who Would
be King”, David Lean’s
“A Passage to India”,
and composed the music for Tapan
Sinha’s films, “Joturgriha”
and “Aadmi Aurat”.
Aashish has collaborated with
such diverse western musicians
as John Barham, George Harrison,
Ringo Star, Eric Clapton, Charles
Lloyd, John Handy, Alice Coltrane,
Emil Richards, Dallas Smith,
Don Pope, Jorge Strunz, Ardeshir
Farah, and the Philadelphia
String Quartet.
His recordings include: The
Wonder Wall, Young Master of
the Sarod, California Concert,
Sarod and Piano Jugalbandi,
Shanti, Live at the Royal Festival
Hall London, Homage, Inner Voyage,
Monsoon Ragas, The Sound of
Mughal Court, and the latest,
Jugalbandi Sarod & Sarangi
Duet, with Ustad Sultan Khan.
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In 1989, Aashish
was appointed to the prestigious
post of the Composer and Conductor
for the National Orchestra (“Vadya
Vrinda”) of All India
Radio, New Delhi, succeeding
such musical starwarts as Pandit
Ravi Shankar and Pandit Pannalal
Ghosh.
Aashish Khan is a respected
guru and teacher, formerly on
the faculties of the Ali Akbar
College of Music in San Rafael,
California, and the University
of Washington, Seattle. While
pursuing a busy career as a
concert artist and composer,
he teaches students throughout
the U.S., Canada, Europe, and
Africa, as well as India. |
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