Ravi Shankar, the legendary sitarist and composer is India's most esteemed musical Ambassador and a singular phenomenon in the classical music worlds of East and West. As a performer, composer, ...

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - CIRCA 1970: Ravi Shankar sits with Beatle George Harrison in London, England, circa 1970. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The casting is significant. Ravi ...

After Anoushka Shankar clarified earlier this month that her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar, was never Rishab Rikhiram Sharma’s guru, the Ravi Shankar Centre has also issued a clarification. Trashing ...

NEW YORK, NY – Schirmer Theatrical, a division of Wise Music Group, has announced the formation of The Ravi Shankar Ensemble and its inaugural 12-city U.S. tour in 2026. This new concert production ...

“What Andrés Segovia is to the guitar, what Pablo Casals is to the cello, so Ravi Shankar is to the sitar. The master. The one who you might say revolutionized the instrument.” This is how Chicago ...

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The multi-generational ensemble of world-class musicians is dedicated to the masterful compositions and enduring legacy of the legendary sitar-musician. IMAGE: Pandit Ravi Shankar. Photograph: Kind ...

Sitarist Shubhendra Rao, who studied under Shankar, looks to bring his guru's music to the masses again with an American tour. Sitarist Pandit Shubhendra Rao leads the Ravi Shankar Ensemble on their U ...

Shubhendra Rao has been playing the sitar ever since he can remember. He was a student of Ravi Shankar’s, playing alongside him at venues around the world throughout the 1980s and 90s. “He used to ...