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 ...
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 ...
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, ...