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Queens Museum

Reeta Karmarkar

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Bivas Chaudhuri

Satish Joshi

Siona Benjamin

Tara Sabharwal

Nitin Mukul

Ela Shah

Vinod Dave

Nandini Chirimar

Antonio Puri

Anna Bhushan

Delna Dastur

Niyeti Chadha

Alka Mukerji

Yamini Nayar

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Erasing Borders: Indian Artists in the Diaspora: Feb-Mar 2007

 

Anurag Harsh

Anurag Harsh
(Vocal)
www.Anuragharsh.com
harsh@alum.MIT.edu
   

Anurag Harsh is the winner of the All India National Music contest organized by the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Delhi and many other leading music contests in India. He is known to have among the most powerful voices in the new era of musicians and can sing effortlessly in all three octaves.
  
His bhajan "Guruji" has been remixed by leading DJs in Europe and USA and is perhaps one of the rare classical songs that is widely played at dance clubs around the world. His music appeals to all generations of listeners and its the passion and spirit of his performances that draws the audience into his music.
  
During his 20 years of dedicated music training Anurag listened and learnt from some of the greatest exponents of Hindustani music namely Pandit(s) Bhimsen Joshi, Chandrakant Apte, Kumar Gandharva, Mallikarjun Mansur, and Prabhakar Karekar to name a few. He is among the youngest upcoming vocalists of the new generation and has performed at leading venues around the world including the Royal Festival Hall and Nehru Center in London. He also performed at the Ali Akbar College in San Francisco at the personal invitation of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
Anurag has been a strong supporter of propagating traditional music in an improvised manner to the youth and almost all of his concerts to date have been done with no financial gain to him, including the upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall.
   
Anurag completed his Sangeet Alankaar (MA in Music) from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at the age of 17. His first ever live concert was at the age of 4 when he gave a 45 minute solo performance. He was a regular featured artist at the All India Radio studios in India and during his childhood years, was the youngest regularly recorded radio artist on AIR (at Age 4).
  
Anurag Harsh has a musical repertoire that comprises over 100 ragas and rhythms, including khayal, trivat, chaturang, tarana, thumri, bhajan, as well as Urdu, Sanskrit and Sufi poetry plus scores of other songs. He has also composed many songs of his own that have been recorded and widely broadcast. He has taught and been associated with the leading houses of music in the United States.
  
An interesting little fact about Anurag is that he has a stellar academic record holding an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan School) where he studied as a Sloan fellow. He also has an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School and Penn Engineering) and holds an MA in Music from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya.

 

  
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