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Description: #shivkumar #talwalkar #santoor “Before I started playing santoor, I was trained as a vocalist and a tabla player and I feel that has helped me a lot...I tried to balance melody with rhythm.” (Shivkumar Sharma). We hope you enjoy this presentation by Pandit Shivkumar Sharma If a few brief minutes of Shivkumar & Satyajit aren't enough…watch their full 50-minute performance of Raag Puriya Kalyan in pristine HD on the Darbar Concert Hall, along with dozens of other captivating concerts: bit.ly/35pmK8z NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT: Darbar Academy is launching our new online live course for April 2022. Please click on the below links to find out more and register 100% risk-free with Darbar Academy. 1 - VOCAL: CHILD PRODIGY course with Indrani Mukherjee | nurturing the next generation | for children - click on: bit.ly/3qXSfOi 2 - VOCAL: FIND YOUR VOICE course with Indrani Mukherjee | building confidence & foundations | for beginners - click on: bit.ly/3qVwKxE 3 - VOCAL: LEVEL UP course with Indrani Mukherjee | improve your singing | for intermediate learners - click on: bit.ly/36JCns7 4 - SITAR: Learn How to Play Sitar with Roopa Panesar| for beginners - click on: bit.ly/3J0jMoK 5 - LEARN TO PLAY RAAG ON YOUR WESTERN INSTRUMENT with Jesse Bannister | for intermediate and advanced musicians - click on: bit.ly/375P5kA Enjoy this music piece? You can WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE – bit.ly/35pmK8z You can start your free no-obligation trial of the Darbar Concert Hall and watch the full performance today. Click here and sign up for a no-obligation 3-day trial and watch the full-length version of this video now at - bit.ly/35pmK8z You can also get the Darbar App which will let you download content and watch later, this is great for when you are offline or travelling. Please join us and support Indian classical music and artists. Start your free trial at - bit.ly/35pmK8z ______________________________________________________________ Learn more about the artist: Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is one of very few Indian instrumentalists who has near-single-handedly put their instrument on the classical map. Born in the Himalayan state of Jammu to a Dogri family, his father Uma Dutt Sharma was an esteemed singer who inducted him into vocal music and tabla from a young age. But his path deviated at age 13, as his father recommended that he took up the santoor - a 100-stringed hammered dulcimer traditionally used in Sufi folk music. They set about studying the instrument together, working out how it could be adapted to Hindustani classical settings. Conservative members of the music establishment viewed the endeavor as hopeless folly - the santoor’s rigid strings each have a fixed pitch and cannot be bent, seemingly ruling out the distinctive ornaments of Indian music. But they restrung, retuned, and reconfigured the instrument, changing the weight of the small mallets used to strike it and developing new techniques that allowed the young Shivkumar to glide and bounce his way through a melody, capturing the essence of Hindustani music’s gayaki ang [singing-style]. From the critics came first silence, and eventually applause - although Shivkumar estimates that it took almost two decades from his controversial 1955 debut to win over "the die-hard connoisseurs…and purists." He attributes his santoor style to blending the melodic turns of vocal music with his two-handed percussive training on tabla (he maintained his tabla study for decades, becoming proficient enough to accompany Ravi Shankar at one stage). His long career since has seen him rise to the forefront of Indian classical music. He played on 1967’s Call of the Valley, the first Hindustani album to find a global audience, and teamed up with bansuri master and close friend Hariprasad Chaurasia for several acclaimed film soundtracks. International collaborators have included electronic producers as well as a successful stint with Indo-jazz heavyweights Remember Shakti. Today he takes keen interest in therapeutic music, and teaches dedicated students for free at his ashram during breaks from touring with his santoor-playing son Rahul, who carries his lineage forward. Recorded at the Darbar Festival 2015 Musicians: Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (santoor) Satyajit Talwalkar (tabla) Takahiro Arai (tanpura) ________________________________________________________________ All Rights Reserved ©2022 Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust