Hariprasad Chaurasia

Along with his virtuousic blowing technique, Hariprasad Chaurasia has turned the Bansuri (bamboo) flute into a musical instrument of beauty. Mixing the musical customs of India with creativity and advancement, Chaurasia has already reached beyond traditional music to make a audio of his personal. Offered the national honor from the Sangeet Natak Academy in 1984, Chaurasia received the Gaurav Puraskar through the state of Maharashtra, India in 1990, the Padma Bhushan as well as the Konarak Samman in 1992 as well as the Yash Bharati Sanman in 1994. Furthermore to recording like a soloist, Chaurasia offers collaborated with such jazz music artists as John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek. His compositions have already been noticed in a number of Indian movies including Silsila, which he co-wrote with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma. Although he started his musical research like a vocalist, Chaurasia turned towards the flute after hearing a efficiency by Pandit Bholanath a yr later. Inspired with what he noticed, Chaurasia spent another eight years learning with Bholanath. He later on researched with surbahar participant Shrinimati Annapurna Devi, the girl of Ustad Allaudin Khan as well as the siter of Ali Akbar Khan. In 1957, Chaurasia started playing and composing materials for those India Radio in Calcutta. A decade later on, he collaborated with Shivkumar Sharma and Brijbhushan Kabra on the much-celebrated raga collection, “Call FROM THE Valley.”