Mukherjee, a sarod player, is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi’s prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Award, among numerous other awards Joydeep Mukherjee presented a mohanveena recital at the G20 ...

Fan of Indian classical music and want to play some popular tunes on your own? You need to have some good Indian classical musical instruments at your home that will ensure the perfect audio when you ...

Have you ever found yourself grooving to a fleeting sitar section or a tabla rhythm that sat in the back of the mix in your favourite Bollywood tracks? These age-old instruments have long been ...

They're the ones keeping classical cool. A cadre of performers under 40 are doing their best to keep instruments such as the violin, piano and cello front and center in music lover's minds. Artists ...

Naomi: The Classical period of music put an emphasis on elegance, balance and beauty. Classical composers largely worked between the years 1750 to around 1810 and this period was dominated by giants ...

With centuries of history to consider, it can be easy to get in a bit of a twist when it comes to the various eras of Western classical music. Here’s a quick guide to the four key periods we usually ...

After graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988, Yoko Shimomura was torn between career paths. Classically trained since the age of 3 and raised in a family of piano players, Shimomura had ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...