Chandrakant sardeshmukh

Chandrakant Sardeshmukh (1955 – 15 August 2011) was a Hindustani classical sitar player of the Maihar Gharana (school).

He was taught by Ustad Shabuddin Khan and Khurshid Mirajkar from the age of 4, and became popular as child artist. He performed in the famous Sawai Gandharva Music Festival in Pune in 1963. In the same year, at the age of eight Pandit Ravi Shankar declared him as child prodidgy and accepted him as a student. Since then till 1976 he learnt with both Pandit Ravi Shankar and his then wife Annapurna Devi. In 1976 he was awarded Sangeet Vibhushan (Sitar Pravin) by University of Rajasthan.

He did a Ph.D. in Samavedic Basis of Indian Music from University of Poona.

He has a Knowledge and background of Ayurveda (Indian Medicine) from his father. He does extensive research in Healing Music and has given several Healing Music sessions to individuals and groups.

He has toured around the world extensively, giving concerts in India, Germany Australia, Japan and the USA from 1982. He has recorded traditional Indian music as well as experimented with several western and Japanese musicians.

Chandrakant Sardeshmukh died in a car accident near Solapur on 15 August 2011. He was aged 56.

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