Grammy-winning Ustad Zakir Hussain mesmerised Hyderabad in a recent performance with sitar virtuoso Niladri Kumar. The concert commenced with a subdued acknowledgment from Niladri Kumar, expressing ...

Sitar maestro Niladri Kumar talks about his musical journey I was barely four when I first picked up the sitar. My father sitar maestro Pandit Kartick Kumar is the one who guided me onto this soulful ...

If you have ever met director Imtiaz Ali, you will know that he is very involved in the music-making process of his movies. This writer and him have had long conversations about why the AR Rahman ...

On 'Together,' English-born tabla fusioneer Talvin Singh plays with Kolkata-born child prodigy, sitarist Niladri Kumar, whose guitar/sitar hybrid, the 'zitar' can be heard on Bollywood soundtracks.

Eclectic sitar player Niladri Kumar, who has made a name for himself in Indian fusion and film music, is all set to perform in Dhaka later this month. The concert, titled “A Voyage of String”, is ...

Niladri Kumar has revolutionized the sitar with his innovative Zitar, infusing it with an electric sound and pioneering fusion music. Ahead of his recent city performance, Kumar shared insights with ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain performs a duo ...

What happens when ancient ragas meet futuristic soundscapes? Hyderabad is about to find out. On December 7, Niladri Kumar brings India Dream, his bold new musical universe to Shilpakala Vedika. Part ...

"I don't have any idea about what we are going to play at the concert. When you are playing with Zakir bhai, anything can happen," says Taufiq Qureshi, noted percussionist and younger brother of tabla ...

SITAR music has the unfortunate reputation of being associated with flocked wallpaper in Indian restaurants, but 25-year-old Niladri Kumar, the fifth generation of a family of sitarists making his UK ...

Zakir Hussain’s name was twice the size of Niladri Kumar’s on the cover of the program for the duo’s Washington Performing Arts concert Thursday at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Yet Hussain, the ...