Chandrakant Sardeshmukh
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Chandrakant Sardeshmukh is a Hindustani classical sitar
player of the Maihar Gharana
(school).
He was taught by Ustad Shabuddin Khan and Khurshid Mirajkar from the age of 4, and became popular as child artist. He performed in the famous Sawai Gandharva Music Festival
in Pune in 1963. In the same year, at the age of eight Pandit Ravi Shankar
declared him as child prodidgy and accepted him as a student. Since then till 1976 he learnt with both Pandit Ravi Shankar and his then wife Annapurna Devi. In 1976 he was awarded Sangeet Vibhushan (Sitar Pravin) by University of Rajasthan
.
He did a Ph. D. in Samavedic Basis of Indian Music from University of Poona.
He has a Knowledge and background of Ayurveda (Indian Medicine) from his father. He does extensive research in Healing Music and has given several Healing Music sessions to individuals and groups.
He has toured around the world extensively, giving concerts in India, Germany Australia, Japan and the USA from 1982. He has recorded traditional Indian music as well as experimented with several western and Japanese musicians .
Chandrakant Sardeshmukh died in a car accident near Solapur on Aug 15th, 2011.
Sawai Gandharva 1963
Sitar
The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
player of the Maihar Gharana
Maihar gharana
The Maihar gharana is a gharana or school of Hindustani or North Indian classical music formed principally by the versatile genius and sarod maestro Ustad Allaudin Khan in Maihar in the Madhya Pradesh state of India....
(school).
He was taught by Ustad Shabuddin Khan and Khurshid Mirajkar from the age of 4, and became popular as child artist. He performed in the famous Sawai Gandharva Music Festival
Sawai Gandharva Music Festival
The Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav is amongst the largest and most popular musical festivals of Indian Classical music in India....
in Pune in 1963. In the same year, at the age of eight Pandit Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
declared him as child prodidgy and accepted him as a student. Since then till 1976 he learnt with both Pandit Ravi Shankar and his then wife Annapurna Devi. In 1976 he was awarded Sangeet Vibhushan (Sitar Pravin) by University of Rajasthan
University of Rajasthan
University of Rajasthan is the oldest university in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was set up on 8 January 1947 as the University of Rajputana and was given its current name in 1956.- Introduction :...
.
He did a Ph. D. in Samavedic Basis of Indian Music from University of Poona.
He has a Knowledge and background of Ayurveda (Indian Medicine) from his father. He does extensive research in Healing Music and has given several Healing Music sessions to individuals and groups.
He has toured around the world extensively, giving concerts in India, Germany Australia, Japan and the USA from 1982. He has recorded traditional Indian music as well as experimented with several western and Japanese musicians .
Chandrakant Sardeshmukh died in a car accident near Solapur on Aug 15th, 2011.
External links
- Official web site: www.darshanam.com
Sawai Gandharva 1963