13.10.08 Ragas on Sitar Pandit Shalil Shankar ► Berlin ◄

Pandit Shalil Shankar

The brilliant and charismatic sitar player Pandit Shalil Shankar is one of the leading exponent and itinerant cultural ambassador, and popular musician of the international music scene today.

He lives in Switzerland and enjoys an enviable reputation as an artist. He learnt his art with legendary Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar in sixties in a rarefied atmosphere of traditional “Gurukul” system. He practised 12-14 hours a day, besides his academic Master degree in Anthropology and Doctorate in music. The Buenos Aires herald describes, “The legendary maestro Shalil Shankar, who has toured the world with his music, brakes down religious and political barriers with the universal language of music in order to create a spiritual bond between the two worlds.

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Source: Newsletter Indian Embassy in Berlin