Shujaat Khan

Shujaat Khan, 2011

Shujaat Husain Khan , also Shujaat Hussain Khan , (born May 19, 1960 in Calcutta ) is an Indian sitar player.

Shujaat Khan comes from an old Indian family of musicians and is himself a seventh generation musician. To her belonged his great-great-grandfather Sahabdad Khan , the great-grandfather Imdad Khan , his grandfather Enayat Khan and his father, the famous sitar player Vilayat Khan , who was also his teacher. He had sitar lessons from the age of three and performed publicly at the age of six.

Soon he not only played at the major national festivals in India, but also had international appearances in Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, China, Mongolia and other East Asian countries. On the 50th anniversary of India's independence, he performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Paramount Theater in Seattle, the Meyers Symphony Theater in Dallas and at the United Nations in Geneva.

Khan is a representative of the Imdadkhani gharana music school, named after his great-grandfather, but has often worked with representatives of other musical genres. He performed in the USA in 2000 with Seiji Ozawa and Luciano Pavarotti , recorded the album Rain with the Indo-Persian Ghazal ensemble in 2004 , which was nominated for a Grammy for best traditional world music album, and his album Lost Songs of the Silk Road came out In 2009 among the list of the 100 greatest world music albums of all time by Amazon.

With Asha Bhosle he gave 2010 concerts in Birmingham, Leicester and the Royal Festival Hall in London, and their joint album came in 2011 on the list of Top Of The World CD of Songlines Magazine . From 1993–94 Shujaat Khan was artist in residence at the University of Washington , and he also taught as a guest at the Dartington School of Music in England and the University of California, Los Angeles .

Web links

• Homepage of Shujaat Khan
• Allmusic - Shujaat Khan
• Le Temps, September 25, 2015: "Shujaat Khan, la liberté de chanter"
• Indian Classical Music Circle - Shujaat Khan