Siddharth Kishna sitarist

Siddharth Kishna was brought up in an atmosphere of Indian classical music. In his early age, he was exposed to various great musicians who inspired in him a reverence for Indian classical music. He started learning sitar at an early age of ten under Ustad Jamaluddin Bhartiya, under whose guidance he studied the basics of sitar playing. In 1995 he started studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands under Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee, on of the leading sitarists of India and an exponent of Imdadkhani gharana or school of sitar playing. The main feature of this tradition is the gayaki or vocalised style, which lays emphasis on imbibing elements and nuances of the human voice into the string instrument. In 1996, Siddharth was invited by the Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai to perform during the seminar Indian music and the West in which he was introduced as one of the most promising sitarists based in the West. In 2000 Siddharth was awarded with the Provision for Excellent Young Musicians, a grant which is given by the Dutch government to stimulate top talents of conservatory students. Till now one of his most remarkable performances were in 2005 and 2007 when Siddharth performed in presence of the Queen of The Netherlands. Following the footsteps of his masters, Siddharth performs the traditional sitar music with an uncompromising approach to purity yet at the same time with creativity, virtuosity and playfulness.“Siddharth could make the strings of the sitar sing like the whistling of the wind… The grand finale was not less virtuosic than guitarist van Halen. - Veluws Dagblad, The Netherlands – You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor ! http://www.dealturtle.com