RAHUL SHARMA

RAHUL SHARMA -THE SANTOOR MAESTRO

He is a musician. A versatile musician, who loves to take the tougher path, To begin with, he chose Santoor, an instrument with 100 strings. Then he chose the ancient and extremely demanding idiom of Indian classical music to harness and express his creativity. And, after diving deep within this time-tested ocean if Indian classical music, he chose to share the pearls he discovered with creative minds across the globe.

Rahul thrives on challenges, loves to crossover boundaries, take un-treaded path and try the never before. Result? A series of hugely successful ‘firsts' in the list of his musical adventures

or instance he is the first young musician (not to mention the only Indian musician) to collaborate with the world-renowned pianist Richard Clayderman to not just cut an album but give live concerts too. And, he is the youngest Indian musician to perform at the WOMAD (World of music, Arts and Dance) festival in UK, as well as the Edingburgh festival, Scotland (2001). And, his performance along with his illustrious father Pandit Shivkumar Sharma was the first ever concert of Indian music in Egypt. And, he is the first young Indian classical musician to give music for a commercial Bollywood feature

film all by himself. And, probably the youngest music director for whom Lata Mangeshkar, the queen of Hindi filmdom; agreed to sing in his very first venture.

Not just that, there are consistent additions to his list of awards like the Indo American Society Award (1998), Bollywood Music Award for promising New Music Director, New York (2002), MTV (IMMIES) Music Award for Best Classical / Fusion Album 2003 and so on.

Along with all these innovations, experimentations Rahul continues to give his concerts of pure Indian Classical Music across India and beyond her shores. Obviously, his is a vast spectrum where popular music, collaborations, sublime, new age music, high-energy trance, folk music, thematic music, psychedelic sounds and film music co-exist very comfortably with his first love – Indian Classical Music.

Check out some of his videos :

http://www.rahulsantoor.com/samandar.html

http://www.rahulsantoor.com/video7.html

This is his website:

www.rahulsantoor.com