Vocal By Rashid Khan & Flute By Ronu Majumdar: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR VOCAL BY RASHID KHAN...

ITC Sangeet Research Academy is organizing the ITC Sangeet Sammelan on 4th and 5th October, at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kulapati Munshi Sadan.

ITC's association with music began with the ITC Sangeet Sammelan conducted in Delhi in 1971. This Sammelan also instituted a substantial cash award to be given to one of the oldest living musicians of stature. The Sammelan took Delhi by storm and went on to become an annual rage.

ITC Limited established the prestigious ITC Sangeet Research Academy (ITC-SRA) in 1978 with the objective of preserving and promoting Hindustani classical music. ITC-SRA has played a major role to revive and nurture India's rich heritage of Hindustani Classical Music. ITC-SRA was created as an independent Public Charitable Trust. It was modelled as an institution to epitomise the best of Hindustani Classical Music.

The ITC Sangeet Sammelan is held at all major cities across the country.

On October 5th, the second day of the Sammelan at Hyderabad, the following artistes will perform:

Rashid Khan - Vocal
The great-grand-nephew of Ustad Enayat Hussain Khan Sahib, founder of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, 1966-born Rashid was tutored under his illustrious great-uncle and guru, the late Padmabhushan Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan. Rashid gave his first performance in 1977 at the age of eleven. He is a recipient of several awards such as Rashtriya Kumar Gandharva Award (2002), Padmashri (2006) and Sangeet Natak Academy Award (2006).

Ronu Majumdar - Flute
Pandit Ranendranath Majumdar, popularly known as Ronu Majumdar, began playing the flute under the guidance of his father Dr. Bhanu Majumdar, Pandit Laxman Prasad Jaipurwale and finally under the revered Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao. Ronuji