Hari Prasad Chaurasia
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Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Date of Birth:
July 1, 1938Zodiac Sign:
CancerPlace of Birth:
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaSex:
MaleHair Color:
WhiteEye Color:
BrownNationality:
IndianReligion:
HinduismAddress:
Vrindaban Gurukul, Juhu Versova link Road, Andheri (W), Mumbai - 400 053
Email:
info@hariprasadchaurasia.comPhone:
+91 - 22 - 26212121
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Career
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Awards
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
1992 : Padma Bhushan
2000 : Padma Vibhushan
1992 : Konark Samman
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Hari Prasad Chaurasia
- He has performed throughout the world winning acclaim from varied audiences and fellow musicians including Yehudi Menuhin and Jean-Pierre Rampal.
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- He has collaborated with several western musicians, including John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek, and has also composed music for a number of Indian films.
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- Hari Prasad serves as the Artistic Director of the World Music Department at the Rotterdam Music Conservatory in the Netherlands.
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- He has also collaborated with various world musicians in experimental cross-cultural performances, including the fusion group Shakti.
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- Apart from classical music, he has made a mark as a Hindi language film music director along with Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, forming a group called Shiv-Hari.
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Biography
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Last Updated: Thursday, October 01, 2009
With his virtuousic blowing technique, Hariprasad Chaurasia has turned the Bansuri (bamboo) flute into an instrument of beauty. Blending the musical traditions of India with imagination and innovation, Chaurasia has reached beyond classical music to create a sound of his own. Presented with the national award of the Sangeet Natak Academy in 1984, Chaurasia received the Gaurav Puraskar from the state government of Maharashtra, India in 1990, the Padma Bhushan and the Konarak Samman in 1992 and the Yash Bharati Sanman in 1994. In addition to recording as a soloist, Chaurasia has collaborated with such jazz musicians as John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek.
His compositions have been heard in several Indian films including Silsila, which he co-wrote with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma. Although he began his musical studies as a vocalist, Chaurasia switched to the flute after hearing a performance by Pandit Bholanath a year later. Inspired by what he heard, Chaurasia spent the next eight years studying with Bholanath. He later studied with surbahar player Shrinimati Annapurna Devi, the daughter of Ustad Allaudin Khan and the siter of Ali Akbar Khan. In 1957, Chaurasia began playing and composing material for All India Radio in Calcutta. Ten years later, he collaborated with Shivkumar Sharma and Brijbhushan Kabra on a much-celebrated raga suite, "Call Of The Valley."