Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar has emerged as one of the leading figures in World Music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, and is now one of the foremost performers in that tradition. In tandem with this, she has flourished as a performer and composer, exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including electronica, jazz, flamenco and Western classical music.

 

Born June 9, 1981, Anoushka has been playing and studying the sitar with her father since she was nine. With three classical sitar recordings under her belt, she is in increasing demand as a touring artist, establishing her growing international reputation as a classical sitarist, playing as many as 80 concerts per year. Her work now is notable for the way she has applied her expertise as a very fine Indian classical musician, and the profundity of the Indian raga framework, to working with top-quality musicians from a range of traditions, creating innovative music that appeals to her own generation as much as to that of her father.

 

For more information about Anoushka, please visit her website.