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Sitar Virtuoso Nishat Khan to perform at UC Santa Cruz
The event is co-sponsored by UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies.
Ustad Nishat Khan on sitar (left) and Nitin Mitta on table (right) / (Image: UC Santa Cruz)
Renowned Indian sitar player Ustad Nishat Khan will perform at the Music Center Recital Hall at University of California (UC), Santa Cruz, on February 17, 2024. Khan will be accompanied by musician Nitin Mitta on the Tabla.
The programme is funded by the Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classic Indian Music, Dard Neuman, and by the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Music, and co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies.
63-year-old Khan hails from one of the illustrious musical families in Kolkata, India, who have been contributing to the Indian classical music for seven generations. Beginning to learn sitar at the age of three, Khan rendered his first public concert at the age of seven.
The prodigy went international at the age of seventeen performing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. During his career, Khan has worked with major performers and composers such as John McLaughlin, Philip Glass, Paco Peña and Evelyn Glennie.
He has performed at major venues internationally, including Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
"He is one of India’s finest musicians and a virtuoso sitar player, transcending musical barriers with his provocative expression and spellbinding technical mastery," a statement by the university said.
Nitin Mitta has performed with many top Indian musicians worldwide, including Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Amjab Ali Khan, and Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. He had also collaborated with Grammy-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer and carnatic electric guitarist R Prasanna to produce their album titled Tirtha.
UC Santa Cruz has stated that Mitta's music instructors, Pandit G Satyanarayana and Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar, were disciples of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan, Nishat Khan’s father. Mitta teaches Tabla at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has performed at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, at Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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