Rishabh Iyer performs Raag Vrindavani Sarang at Ustad Amir Khan Music Festival, May 19, 2018. Accompanied by Rahul Joshi.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rishabh Iyer has been learning sitar for the last eight or nine years. He started his initial training from Dr. Rajan Sachdeva who runs a music school in West Bloomfield, Michigan. He went on to take lessons from the sitar maestro Ust Shahid Parvez and his son Shakir Khan. Currently Rishabh is under the tutelage of Pt Nayan Ghosh, the famous sitar and tabla maestro. Rishabh has won a national competition in Hindustani Classical music, held in Atlanta, Georgia and was also named IndianRaga fellow in 2014. Rishabh released a professional CD when he was just 12 years old. He has given several solo sitar performances in and around the Detroit area including at the liberty fest in Canton and Arts, Beats and Eats in Royal Oak. Currently Rishabh is pursuing undergrad studies at Stanford.

Rahul Joshi

Rahul Joshi just completed his second year at UC Berkeley. He is majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology. He has learned Hindustani classical vocal from Smt. Shubhangi Sakhalkar. He has also learned table from Shri Ravi Gutala and Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri.