Brij Narayan

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Brij Narayan ( Hindi : बृज नारायण ; IAST : Bṛj Nārāyaṇ ; born April 25, 1952 in Udaipur ) is an Indian classical musician who plays the stringed instrument sarod . Narayan was born in the Indian state of Rajasthan and learned to play the sarod from his youth under his father Ram Narayan and other teachers . He won the All India Radio Instrumentalist Competition in 1967 and accompanied his father on a tour to Afghanistan in 1969. Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and then worked on films and toured Africa, Europe and America.

youth

A sarod

Narayan was born on April 25, 1952 in Udaipur , Rajasthan, as the eldest son of the sarangi player Ram Narayan . He was trained in music from a young age and began playing the sarod at the age of seven. Narayan knows how to play sarangi , but decided to specialize in playing the sarod on the grounds that his background would favor him over other sarod players and that he appreciated their "combination of melody and rhythmic play". Narayan briefly studied under his uncle, tabla player Chatur Lal , and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan in Delhi , but returned to teaching under his father after Lal's death in 1965. In 1967, Narayan received the President's Gold Medal for Best Instrumentalist in the All India Radio Competition. He was the subject of a film in the late 1960s, took part in a cultural delegation tour to Afghanistan with his father in 1969 and became a scholar of the Bharat Sangeet Sabha.

Career

Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and became a full-time musician; he appeared in the same year at the 1972 Summer Olympics . In the 1970s and 1980s he toured Africa, Europe and America and recorded several albums, including a collaboration with Zakir Hussain . Narayan played for the 1978 film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki and composed music for the 1988 film Die Bengalische Nacht by Nicolas Klotz , in which Hugh Grant played the lead role. He was awarded the Mewar Foundation's Dagar Gharana Award in 1996 and toured France again in 1999. Narayan performed for the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth to get young Indians interested in Indian classical music and played on Music Detected , Deep Forest's 2002 album . Neil Sorrell has named Narayan one of the best sarod players today in The Music Past and Present .

Family and personal

Narayan is married, lives in Mumbai , and has children. His son Harsh was born in the mid-1980s and has been playing the sarangi since 1997 ; both Brij and his son have performed with Ram Narayan. Narayan works for the Pt Ram Narayan Foundation in Mumbai, which offers scholarships for sarangi players.

Discography

  • Raga Lalit, Raga Bairagi Bhairav (1999)
  • Raga Bhatiyar and Raga Shankara (2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d Craig Harris: Brij Narayan - Biography . Allmusic. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b Renuka Suryanarayan: Sarangi at its best . The Indian Express . September 7, 2002. Archived from the original on July 25, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 9, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cities.expressindia.com
  4. ^ A b c Aditi Tandon: Preserving traditional melodies . The Tribune . March 25, 2006. Archived from the original on July 25, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 9, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tribuneindia.com
  5. ↑ An evening to remember . The Indian Express . March 3, 2008. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved on May 27, 2010.
  6. ^ The Bengali Night : plot synopsis . Allmovie. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
  7. ↑ Music.Detected_ - Credits . Allmusic. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
  8. ^ Musical concerts in Mangalore from today . The Hindu . April 1, 2005. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved on May 27, 2010.
  9. ↑ Hans Neuhoff: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): The music in past and present: general encyclopedia of music , 2nd edition, volume 12, Bärenreiter, 2006, ISBN 3761811225 , p. 912.
  10. ^ Regula Burckhardt Qureshi: Master musicians of India: hereditary sarangi players speak . Routledge, 2007, ISBN 0415972027 , p. 110.
personal data
SURNAME Narayan, Brij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES नारायण, बृज (Hindi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian sarod player
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Udaipur , Rajasthan, India