Check out the latest vocal-santoor jugalbandi concert at www.AnuragHarsh.com. Winner of India's most prestigious classical music contest finals organized by ITC's Sangeet Research Academy, Anurag Harsh is one of the most versatile vocalists of the younger generation. At a sold out concert at New York's Carnegie Hall in March, Anurag received a standing ovation by both critics and listeners. With formal training in the Kirana and Gwalior gharanas of Hindustani music, Anurag's highly animated and involved style of concert performances have made him very popular among the music connoisseurs. With a deep and meditative voice, his taans are reminiscent of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi spreading across all three octaves. Anurag spent over a decade learning Pandit Bhimsen Joshi’s style and rendition. This is the period when he learnt to realize as his true musical awakening.Anurag was born in the north Indian region of Kashmir. When he was 2 years old, he heard a bhajan by Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan on All India Radio. At the age of 3 he reproduced the tunes of that Bhajan he had heard a year back. This is when his parents discovered his latent talent and thus commenced his formal music training under his mother Smt. Asha Kaul, a renowned artist of Kashmiri film and radio. At the age of 4 he gave his first 45 minute solo concert in the city of Jamshedpur where he grew up. At 6, he formally started learning Hindustani classical music under Pandit Chandrakant Apte of the Gwalior gharana. During this period Anurag spent listening to various great artistes who visited his Guruji's home including Prabhakar Karekar, Ajay Pohankar, and Kumar Gandharva to name a few. After 11 years of formal theoretical classical music examinations, Anurag completed his Alankar (MA in Music) from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at the age of 17.He has spent majority of his adult life outside of India mainly in the UK and in US. He now lives in New York City. Anurag holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MSE in Management of Technology from the Wharton School.
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