He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...

Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma, who elevated the 100-stringed hammered dulcimer to classical concert stages around the world, died Tuesday in Mumbai at age 84. He created a famously ...

A meeting of the executive members of Padam Vibushan Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma Memorial Bhartiya Sangeet Foundation Jammu Tawi was ...

Shivkumar Sharma, the Hindustani classical musician and co-composer of several memorable Bollywood film soundtracks for the late Yash Chopra, died on Tuesday in Mumbai. He was 84. Sharma, addressed by ...

Renowned musician Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the maestro who introduced the santoor to global audiences, once said, “We don’t perform to impress. We perform to express.” And when one looks at his work, ...

Reverentially known as Pandit ("teacher"), Shivkumar Sharma took the hammered dulcimer from humble folk instrument to classical concert stages... Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma, who ...

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