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 Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is acknowledged
throughout
India
as one of its foremost classical musicians and the
maestro of his chosen instrument, the Sarod.
He was all of 6
years old, when Amjad Ali Khan gave his first
recital of Sarod.
It was the beginning of yet another glorious chapter
in the history of Indian classical music. Taught by
his father Haafiz Ali
Khan, a musician to the royal family of
Gwalior, Amjad Ali Khan was born to the illustrious
Bangash lineage rooted in the Senia Bangash School
of music. Today he shoulders the sixth generation
inheritance of this legendary lineage.
After his debut, the career graph of this musical
legend took the speed of light, and on its way the
Indian classical music scene was witness to regular
and scintillating bursts of Raga supernovas. And
thus, the world saw the Sarod
being given a new and yet timeless interpretation by
Amjad Ali Khan. Khan is one of the few maestros who
consider his audience to be the soul of his
motivation.
As he once said, "There
is no essential difference between classical and
popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate
with the listener who finds Indian classical music
remote."
He has performed at the WOMAD
Festival in Adelaide and New Plymouth,
Taranaki in New Zealand, WOMAD
Rivermead Festival in UK, Edinburgh Music Festival,
World Beat Festival
in Brisbane, Summer
Arts Festival in Seattle, BBC
Proms, International
Poets Festival in Rome, Shiraz
Festival, UNESCO, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Adelaide
Music Festival, 1200 Years celebration of Frankfurt
and Schonbrunn in Vienna.
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