Even if you don’t know him, it’s quite likely you’ve heard the music of Zakir Hussain. Son of the renowned Indian tabla master Alla Rakha — who is credited for popularizing the Indian drums in the ...

Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

You can catch From “Bandish to Bandits: A Classicool journey with Purbayan Chatterjee” at the UH Student Center this Saturday Purbayan Chatterjee is one of the top sitar maestros of the world. He's ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string instrument ...

Best I can tell—by roaming the vaguely definitive ether known as cyberspace—the term “jugalbandhi” means “entwined twins” and refers to a musical duet, which makes perfect sense for this concert: a ...

Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma, who elevated the 100-stringed hammered dulcimer to classical concert stages around the world, died Tuesday in Mumbai at age 84. He created a famously ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK PM Keir Starmer were impressed by Pandit Naviin Gandharv's performance at Rajbhavan, ...

Trilok Gurtu is a Germany-based artist who is on an exclusive India tour to mark five decades of his musical journey ...

Explore the challenges faced by Indian classical music accompanists, from low fees and backstage treatment to sharing rooms, and how prominent artists are driving change.