Artist description Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, a world renowned performer on the santoor, thrills everyone with his music on the 'Shata Tantri Veena' (hundred-stringed lute). He modified the instrument and created new playing techniques to express the full range and beauty of classical Gandharva Music on the santoor. Pandit Sharma has won the prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy Award of India and several other national and international honours. Santoor is played with a pair of curved sticks made out of walnut wood, and produces a variety of lively tonal effect reminiscent of the Piano or the Harp. Santoor The santoor is called the 'shata tantra veena' – the hundred-stringed lute. It produces a variety of lively tonal effects reminiscent of the piano or harp. The santoor is played with a pair of curved sticks made of walnut wood, and consists of a trapezoid-shaped sound body with twenty-five to twenty-nine bridges on each side and four strings per bridge. Two strings are tuned to the same pitch.

Music Style Gandharva Veda

Musical Influences Gandharva Veda

Similar Artists Classical Indian Musicians

Group Members On this recording Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is accompanied by Aneesh Pradhan on tabla, and by Rahul Sharma on tanpura.

Instruments Santoor (100-stringed lute), tabla, and tanpura

Albums Melody for Celebration and Joyfulness

Press Reviews "...full of life, rhythm and vocal inflections, charged by the spirit of true improvisation." - Washington Post “...improvisations that sizzle without ever losing elegance.” - The Village Voice "I can only marvel at how this science and art of music reflects the beauty, order and perfection which exists at every level of creation. Somehow Gandharva-Ved makes everything fit together in one incredible gift to humanity." - India Currents

Additional Info Played 4-7 p.m. or anytime

Location Vlodrop, ZG - Netherlands

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