Yollay - Ustad Aashish Khan & Sandip Burman

Aashish Khan
Music
Aashish Khan is considered among the top handful of Indias 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. 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. With Pandit Rave Shankar, he has worked on many musical products for both film and stage, including Satyajit Rayss Apur Sangsar, Parash Pathar and Sir Richard Attenboroughs film Gandhi. He has also worked with Maurice Jarre on John Houstons film The Man Who Would be King, David Leans A Passage to India, and composed the music for Tapan Sinhas 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. 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.

Sandip Burman
Music
Pandit Sandip Burman a native of Durgapur, India, is an accomplished tabla player. His love and dedication of tabla began at age 6 when he began learning from Shri Sudhir Roy and later he became a student of the late distinguished tabla master, Pandit Shyamal Bose of Calcutta. Sandipjis performances are marked with spontaneous innovation and tonal purity while delivering complex rhythmic patterns (tala) or melody (raga). ? Sandipji is the first generation of musicians in his family and without the backing of a reputed musical heritage, it is an unyielding dedication and enthusiasm that has driven him to continually challenge himself as a student and to grow musically beyond tabla playing and into 3 additional instruments: tabla tarang, sitar and voice also. ? Some of his accomplishments include solo performances at the Kennedy Center, First Night Providence (Rhode Island), Ravinia Festival (Chicago), Percussive Arts Society Conference (PASIC) and Nashville Symphony. ? In different circumstances he has filled in the spot as a side artist for foremost Indian musicians such as .Pt. Debu Chaudhuri , Pt. Jasraj, Smt. Laxmi Shankar, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, L. Subramaniam, Pt Chitresh Das (Indian Dance), Pt. Ravi Shankar and Western artists such as Steve Zerlin, John Wubbenhorst, Kurt Gartner, Dean Linton, Andy Narrell and Victor Wooten they have been gracious enough to let Sandipji share such venues as the Ali Akbar Music College Festival, the Monterey World One Festival, the San Francisco Asian Museum of Art, the International Bengali Conferences in L.A. and Philadelphia, the Getty Museum (L.A.), Street Scene (San Diego), Nelson Atkins Museum (Kansas), Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Colorado), Stern Grove Festival (San Francisco) and Wolf Trap (Washington D.C.). ? While exploring World Music, Jazz, Western Classical and Movie Soundtracks, Sandipji has played on albums such as Facing East, Vishnu, Outbound, Live at the Quick DVD and Global Fusion from Warner Brothers. Always in search of new challenges, Sandipji wrote his first Western Classical piece for wind ensemble & string quartet with Gary Hill and Jonathan Moser, as well as contributed to Danny Elfmans soundtrack of Tim Burtons film, Mars Attacks. He also organized and arranged a tour with Jazz legends Jack DeJohnette, Jerry Goodman, Randy Brecker, Howard Levy, Paul McCandless, Steve Smith, Dave Pietro and Paul Bollenback. ? His dazzling performances, combined with his rich and eloquent playing style, have enabled him to teach master classes and perform at prestigious institutions world-wide such as CalArts, San Francisco State, Stanford, UCSD, Brown, DePaul University, Texas Tech, Penn State, Dartmouth, University of Chicago, Drummer Collective (NY), the Peabody Conservatory, etc. and in Mexico, North Africa, Israel, the Rotterdam Conservatory in Holland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sweden and Ireland.

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