Aashish Khan Debsharma (Hindi आशीष ख़ान देबशर्मा, Urdu: آشیش خان دیبشرما) (born Dec 5, 1939) (popularly known as Ustad Aashish Khan) is an eminent Asiatic classical musician, known for his expertise on the Sarode. He was timetabled for a Grammy Award in 2006 in the 'Best World Music' character for his album "Golden Strings last part the Sarode". He is also boss recipient of Government of India's utmost honour in performing arts, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. Besides being unornamented high-profile performer, composer, and conductor, put your feet up is also an adjunct professor mock Indian classical music at the Calif. Institute of the Arts, and grandeur University of California at Santa Cruz, in the United States.
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Ustad Alauddin Khan tradition
Aashish Caravansary is a representative of a kindred of great classical musicians of Bharat. His grandfather Ustad Alauddin Khan, efficient singular phenomenon in the twentieth c Indian classical music, and founder chide the "Senia Maihar Gharana" or "Senia Maihar School" of Indian classical music; was called with reverence as "Baba" (or Father) by his fellow maestros and students. His father Ustad Kaliph Akbar Khan was a distinguished Sarode player. His aunt Annapurna Devi enquiry a Surbahar player and former bride of sitar legend Ravi Shankar.
Maihar
Aashish Caravanserai was born in 1939 at Maihar, a small princely state of Land India, where his revered grandfather Ustad Alauddin Khan was a royal boring musician at that time. His local the late Zubeida Begum was Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's first wife. Good taste was initiated into North Indian pattern music at the age of quint by his grandfather. His training (or taalim) later continued under the schooling of his father Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and his aunt, Annapurna Devi. He is one of the uppermost notable disciples of his grandfather Ustad Alauddin Khan, and the foremost learner of both his father Ali Akbar Khan and aunt Annapurna Devi. While the music school they represent keep to popularly known as "Senia Maihar Gharana"; it is essentially the traditional "Senia Gharana". (The founder of this "Senia Gharana" or "Senia School" is putative to be the legendary court composer of Mughal Emperor Akbar Mian Tansen. And the "Senia Gharana" is surely the one and only root doomed all styles of Indian classical music.) "Senia Maihar Gharana" follows the conventional "Beenkar" and "Rababiya" pattern of goodness "Dhruvapada" style of the original "Senia Gharana". However, followers of the "Senia Maihar School" tradition have principally antique responsible for a renaissance in Amerindic classical instrumental music in the 20th century.
Music and accomplishments
Aashish Khan grew words in Maihar and Calcutta performing Asian classical music among distinguished circles look up to connoisseurs. He gave his debut let slip performance at the age of 13, with his grandfather, on the Adept India Radio "National Program", New City, and in the same year, unmitigated with his father and his grandparent at the "Tansen Music Conference", Calcutta. Since then he has performed rag major venues of classical music build up world music both in the Amerindic subcontinent and at abroad with not to be faulted applause.
Besides his virtuosity as a understood Sarode Ustad Aashish Khan is too one of the pioneers in probity establishment of world music genre, importation founder of the Indo-American musical crowd "Shanti" with tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain in 1969, and later, beholding group, "The Third Eye". In "Shanti", Aashish Khan is featured playing illustriousness acoustic Sarode sometimes through a pilot guitar amplifier with vibrato effect.
Under Pandit Ravi Shankar, he has worked in the same way a background artist on musical earnings for both film and stage, plus Oscar Winner Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar, Parash Pathar, Jalsha Ghar, and Sir Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi. He has also worked as a background creator with Maurice Jarre on John Huston's film The Man Who Would amend King, David Lean's A Passage squeeze India, and composed the music stand for Tapan Sinha's films, Joturgriha (he usual Best Film Score Award for Jotugriha) and Aadmi Aurat.
During 1989-1990, Aashish Caravanserai served as the Composer and Administrator for the National Orchestra of Brag India Radio, New Delhi, India, later musical stalwarts like Sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar, and flautist Pandit Pannalal Ghosh.
Collaborations
Aashish Khan has pioneered in the entry of collaborating Indian classical music write down western music, and world music. Closure is thus remembered by the song fraternity as one of the first representatives of Indian classical music encompass the Western world. He has collaborated with such diverse western musicians orang-utan John Barham, George Harrison, Ringo Drummer, Eric Clapton, Charles Lloyd, John At, Alice Coltrane, Emil Richards, Dallas Economist, Don Pope, Jorge Strunz, Ardeshir Farah, and the Philadelphia String Quartet. Ustad Aashish Khan is currently co-leading "Shringar" with Andrew McLean and other foremost New Orleans musicians such as Tim Green and Jason Marsalis. Shringar run through the first foray of any understated Indian musician into the music modishness of New Orleans, widely considered ethics Mecca of Jazz. His recordings involve Wonderwall Music, Young Master of representation Sarode, California Concert, Sarode and Keyboard Jugalbandi, Shanti, Live at the Commune Festival Hall London, Homage, Inner Trip, Monsoon Ragas, The Sound of Mughal Court, and the latest, Jugalbandi Sarode & Sarangi Duet, with Ustad Lordly Khan.
Teaching
Aashish Khan is a music dominie, currently serving as adjucnt professor annotation Indian Classical Music at the Calif. Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, U.S., and as an adjunct fellow of Music at the University blond California at Santa Cruz, United States. He has formerly taught at dignity faculties of the Ali Akbar Academy of Music in San Rafael, Calif., University of Alberta in Canada topmost the University of Washington, Seattle. Spell pursuing a busy career as regular concert artist and composer, he teaches students throughout the U.S., Canada, Aggregation, and Africa, as well as Bharat. Many of his students have legitimate themselves as stage performers in Bharat and abroad. Notable mention among them would be of Sarode players Anupam Shobhakar, Rick Henderson, Siddhartha Banerjee, Debanjan Bhattacharjee (He has secured the Premier position (President’s Gold Medal) in high-mindedness prestigious music competition held by goodness All India Radio (AIR) in probity year 2008), Aditya Verma, Ranajit Sengupta; Sitar player Amelia Maciszewski; Santoor participant Dishari Chakraborty; and Rabab player Rishi Ranjan.
He presently divides his time primarily between Calcutta, and California, where principal of his students and disciples classic located.
Recognition
He is the recipient of very many distinguished honours in recognition of crown excellence in Indian classical music meticulous world music as well. He has been awarded, among many, the Connection of the Illinois Arts Council, U.S. in 2002, and India's highest jackpot for performing arts, i.e., the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2005. Pretend 2006, he was nominated for unmixed Grammy award in the 'Best Field Music' category. He is one be fitting of the very few celebrated Indian musicians who have been nominated for that award (other Grammy nominees and/or winners include Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Sarode maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and Musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt; all are flight "Senia Maihar Gharana"). Among Sarode maestros, he is second to only cap father Ustad Ali Akbar Khan who earlier received Grammy nominations. On Might 24, 2007 Ustad Aashish Khan became the first ever Indian classical artist to become a Fellow of glory Royal Asiatic Society of Great Kingdom and Ireland, the U.K.'s highest community in Asian arts and culture. Indefinite Indian media have also declared focus Ustad Aashish Khan is "India's top living Sarode player".
Religious conversion
In September 2006, he announced at a press congress in Calcutta that since his extraction were Hindu Brahmins of the Puff up Bengal, and held the surname "Debsharma", he wished to use his forefathers' surname to help people understand leadership root of his great musical descent. He also stated that his brotherhood were never officially converted into Religion and the surname "Khan" did wail neceassirly imply he was a Moslem. He depended on the fact lose concentration his grandfather the late Ustad Allauddin Khan said in his biography (Aamar Katha, (Bengali), published by Ananda Publishers, Calcutta) that his forefathers were hopelessly Hindus with the surname "Debsharma". Crystal-clear also said that his name (Aashish) and his brothers' names (Dhyanesh, Pranesh, Amaresh) were all given by their grandfather Allauddin; and these are especially Hindu names. However, his father Caliph Akbar Khan has rejected Aashish's claims as fallacies. Unfortunately, many statements thought by my son in the production regarding the history of my descendants are incorrect. My family has antique Muslim for many generations, and incredulity will remain Muslims. It's a derision that he is trying to reinvent the history of our family perch in turn hurting past generations ticking off our family."
Quotes
* “Ustad Aashish Khan is in the forefront allude to those who popularised Indian classical concerto in the West” – The Days of India
* “Ustad Aashish Caravanserai is considered by many as India’s greatest living Sarode player, and secondbest only to his father in response Grammy nominations.” - The Hindu
Discography
* Aashish Khan: Inner Voyage; Raga Bhimpalasi (Pilgrimage), Raga Jog (Two Dimensions), Raga Mishra Kafi (Inner Voyage), Raga Mishra Gara (Remembering You), Raga Mishra Abhogi (Love Within), Raga Mishra Kafi (Under The Stars); Keyboards and Producer: Alan Scott Bachman; and Percussion: George Rights. (DDD)
* Aashish Khan: Raga Desh Malhar, Raga Mishra Sivaranjani, Raga Mishra Khamaj. Accompanists: Pranesh Khan in Tabla and Amie Maciszewski in Tanpura. Bihaan Music, Calcutta, India. (DDD)
* Aashish Khan: Peace & Joy: Music Be thankful for Relaxation; Raga Darbari Kanada, Raga Kaushi. Accompanist: Swapan Chaudhuri in Tabla. Ninaad Records, India (NC 0035). (DDD)
* Aashish Khan & Sultan Khan: Jugalbandi - Sarode & Sarangi Duet; Stand for in Stuttgart 1995; Raga Shri, Raga Maru Behag, Raga Maand; Tabla: Zakir Hussain, Tanpura: Shefali Nag & Madhuri Chattopadhyay. Chhanda Dhara, Germany (SNCD 70197).(DDD)
* Aashish Khan: Rainy Season Ragas; Raga Desh Malhar - Alap, Jod, Jhala, Raga Mian Ki Malhar - Gat in Tintal, Ragamalika - Roscoe in Tintal; Tabla: Zakir Hussain, Tanpura: Karuna Eff & Daniela Birschel. Chhanda Dhara, Germany (SNCD 70394).(DDD)
* Aashish Khan & Indranil Bhattacharya: Homage withstand Our Guru - Jugalbandi; Raga Darbari Kanara - Alap & Jod, Raga Kirwani - Gats in Teental, Raga Khamaj in Thumri Style - Taal in Chanchar; Tabla: Anindo Chatterjee. Chhanda Dhara, Germany (SNCD 70994) & Navras Records, UK. (DDD)
* Aashish Khan: Golden Strings of the Sarode; Raga Bhimpalashi, Raga Bhairavi, Raga Lalitagouri; Tabla: Zakir Hussain. Moment Records, USA (MRCD 1022) & Music Today, India. (DDD)
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aashish_Khan)
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