Suvir Misra | |
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Born | Harda, India |
Other names | beenkar suvir |
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Suvir Misra,(pronunciation:[s̪u ʋiːr miɕrə] सुवीर मिश्र) is an Indian musician, vocalist, musicologist, and is an expert in Rudra Veena, Saraswati Veena, Surbahar, Sitar and Tabla. He is unique in being a left handed artist who has mastered all the three veenas of the Indian classical music - the Rudra Veena, the Saraswati Veena and the Surbahar. He is the inventor of Misr Veena.
Suvir Misra was born in Harda, Madhya Pradesh and belongs to a family of musicians. He has studied at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. He started his journey into music at the age of 12.
He joined Civil Services of India in 1993, and currently is working as a Commissioner of Customs, Customs and Central Excise, Mumbai
Suvir started learning Tabla, Sitar and Khayal form of music an early age of 12. He took his training on the rudra veena from Zia Fariduddin Dagar and simultaneously studied dhruapd vocal from Nirmalya Dey. He took guidance in Gwalior Khayal Gayaki from K.N.Ienger and learnt Sitar from N.R.Rama Rao. He studied Tabla from Bandu Khan of Ajarada Gharana. Suvir Misra found inspiration in Veena from S. Balchandarof the Karnatic tradition
Being dissatisfied with the older themes of the classical music, Suvir Mistra started experimenting in the contemporary themes. He believes that older themes have lesser importance to the modern Indian living and to popularize the classical music, contemporary themes should be used. For this he introduced modern Hindi mukta chhanda poetry within Dhrupad composition structure, and also used newer themes in Hindi literature instead of traditional Awadhi language or Braj Bhasha.