For other uses, see Ali Akbar Khan (disambiguation).
Ali Akbar Khan
Background information
Born
(1922-04-14)14 April 1922 Shibpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (present day Bangladesh)
Origin
Maihar (present-day Madhya Pradesh, India)
Died
18 June 2009(2009-06-18) (aged 87) San Anselmo, California, U.S.
Genres
Hindustani classical music
Occupation(s)
Composer, Sarodiya
Instrument(s)
Sarod
Musical artist
Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he also composed numerous classical ragas and film scores.[1] He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which moved with him to the United States and is now based in San Rafael,[citation needed] California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland.
Khan was instrumental in popularizing Indian classical music in the West, both as a performer and as a teacher. He first came to America in 1955 on the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and later settled in California.[2] He was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3]
Khan was accorded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1989.[4] Nominated five times for the Grammy Award, Khan was also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship.
^Grimes, William (19 June 2009). "Ali Akbar Khan, Sarod Virtuoso of Depth and Intencity, Is Dead at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
^"50 Most Influential Indian Americans". Rediff.com. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^Rappaport, Scott. "Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Indian Classical Music". UC Santa Cruz.
^"Padma Awards". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India). Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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