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Shadaj Iyer brings the rare Agra gharana to a Delhi concert
Shadaj Iyer, a 23-year-old vocalist, performed in Delhi at a concert in the Morning Ragas series.
He specialises in the Agra gharana, a Hindustani classical music tradition with relatively few performers on the concert stage.
The gharana takes its name from Agra and Attrauli, where its founders settled, and traces its musical lineage to descendants of Tansen.
It has had respected singers and teachers, but it has not had a star singer since Ustad Sharafat Hussain Khan, who died in 1985.
Iyer began learning music as a child and now trains with Subhra Guha at ITC SRA in Kolkata.
At the concert, he sang the raga Ramkali and showed the tradition’s vocal power and complex ornamentation.
His performance brought fresh attention to a less-heard tradition and showed him developing his own musical identity.
Twenty-three-year-old vocalist Shadaj Iyer performed at the Habitat Centre in Delhi as part of the Morning Ragas Series.
Iyer specialises in the relatively rare Agra-Attrauli gharana, which has had few exponents on the concert stage.
He began training in the style at age seven and is now studying under Subhra Guha at ITC SRA in Kolkata.
His concert included the raga Ramkali and compositions in Ek taal, and reviewers praised his vocal power and command of gamaks.
- Who
- Shadaj Iyer, a 23-year-old vocalist.
- What
- He performed a Hindustani classical concert featuring the Agra-Attrauli gharana style.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- The Habitat Centre in Delhi.
- Why
- The concert was part of the Morning Ragas Series, organised by ITC SRA and the Habitat Centre.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Iyer was drawn to the Agra-Attrauli gharana.
He began training under Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan.
Iyer began performing.
He is training under Subhra Guha at ITC SRA in Kolkata.
Iyer performed at the Habitat Centre in Delhi as part of the Morning Ragas Series.
- Age
- 23 years old
- Concert venue
- Habitat Centre, Delhi
- Gharana
- Agra-Attrauli
- First teacher
- Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan
- Current teacher
- Subhra Guha at ITC SRA, Kolkata
- Opening raga
- Ramkali