Musical Influences
These are the musicians that inspire and inform my music making.
Listen to their recordings to hear the most authentic performances of each instrument in the collection.
Sitar
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Ustad Imrat Khan
Ustad Shahid Parvez
Pandit Manilal Nag
Pandit Kushal Das
Pandit Krishna Bhatt
Ustad Buddhaditya Mukherjee
Ustad Nishat Khan
Ustad Irshad Khan
Pandit Kartik Kumar
Pandit Indrajit Banerjee
Ustad Ashraf Sharif Khan
Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
Pandit Partha Bose
Ustad Sharif Khan Poonchwaley
Sri Ramprapanna Bhattacharya
Sri Purbayan Chatterjee
Sri Nilradi Kumar
Pipa
Lin Shicheng
Gao Hong
Wu Man
Liu Fang
Liu Dehai
Wang Fandi
Lui Pui-Yuen
Li Tingsong
Shenshen Zhang
Yang Jing
Zhang Qiang
Tang Liangxing
He Qiuxia
Zhou Yi
Samuel Wong
Tar
Ostad Jalil Shahnaz
Ostad Lotfollah Majd
Ostad Mohamadreza Lotfi
Ostad Shahram Mirjalali
Ostad Hossein Alizadeh
Ostad Farhang Sharif
Ostad Hoshang Zarif
Ostad Qolamhossein Bigjekhani
Ostad Majid Derakhshani
Ostad Dariush Talai
Ostad Ali-Akbar Shahnazi
Ostad Hamid Motebassem
Ostad Ali-Naqi Vaziri
Ostad Nurali Borumand
Ostad Arshad Tahmasebi
Ostad Reza Mazandari
Ostad Jalal Zolfonoon
Ostad Keyvan Saket
Ostad Salman Salek
Ostad Mousa Maroufi
Ostad Rahim Manish
Aidin Olianssab
Saba Tabkhi
Sahba Motallebi
Mohsen Nafar
Ali Ghamsari
Oud
Munir Bashir
Mansour Nariman
Simon Shaheen
Farid Al-Atrash
Nasser Houari
Riyad Al-Sunbati
Mustafa Sa'id
Marcel Khalif
Sa'id Chraibi
Ahmad Fathi
Yurdal Tockan
Hossein Behroozinia
Richard Hagopian
George Michel
Micheal Ibrahim
Amer Ammouri
Yasamin Shah-Hosseini
Ahmad Al-Khatib
Samir Tahar
Mohammadreza Ebrahimi
Nasser Shamma
Abdolvahab Shahidi
Aarif Jaman
Ali Hassan
Charbel Rouhana
Raed Khoshaba
Abadi al-Johar
Saz
Erdal Erzincan
Ҫetin Akdeniz
Muhlis Berberoğlu
Erkan Oğur
Mehmet Demirtaš
Saidallah Nasiri
Arif Sağ
Mehmet Erenler
Ashik Veysil
Periklis Papapetropoulos
Muhlis Akarsu
Mustafa Budan
Koray Berat Sari
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