Mumbai:
Sitar maestro Ustad Shamim AhmedKhan, one of the finest exponent of Hindustani instrumentalmusic, passed away this morning in a private hospital herefollowing a massive cardiac arrest. He was 74.
Khan was buried at Marine Lines cemetery in Mumbaithis afternoon. His funeral was attended by santoor maestroPandit Satish Vyas, sitar player Pandit Nayan Ghosh, AgraGharana vocalist Raja Miya, tabla maestro Yogesh Samsi andAditya Kalyanpur.
Khan was born in 1938 in Baroda into a musical familyof the Agra Gharana, which boasts of luminaries like UstadFaiyaz Khan, Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan, Ustad Khadim HussainKhan and Ustad Latafat Hussain Khan.
He was initiated into vocal music at a very young ageby his father Ustad Ghulam Rasool Khan but his love for sitarled him to become a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1955.
Mourning the death of his pupil, Ravi Shankar said,"Shamim was a devoted and sincere disciple of mine. I willmiss very much."
Khan was one of the leading exponents of the famousSenia-Maihar Gharana. He lived in Mumbai for almost fivedecades.
Khan performed in New York's Carnegie Hall and theLincoln Center, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and the BarbicanCentre and the Griffith Centre in Los Angeles.
He teamed up with Ustad Alla Rakha, Buddy Rich andPaul Horn for the World Pacific recording company.
The musician also recorded for short film Drop in theOcean and stage show A touch of brightness. His sitarrecital featured in Circarama Film by German filmmaker RamonPelinski which was screened at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Khan was buried at Marine Lines cemetery in Mumbaithis afternoon. His funeral was attended by santoor maestroPandit Satish Vyas, sitar player Pandit Nayan Ghosh, AgraGharana vocalist Raja Miya, tabla maestro Yogesh Samsi andAditya Kalyanpur.
Khan was born in 1938 in Baroda into a musical familyof the Agra Gharana, which boasts of luminaries like UstadFaiyaz Khan, Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan, Ustad Khadim HussainKhan and Ustad Latafat Hussain Khan.
He was initiated into vocal music at a very young ageby his father Ustad Ghulam Rasool Khan but his love for sitarled him to become a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1955.
Mourning the death of his pupil, Ravi Shankar said,"Shamim was a devoted and sincere disciple of mine. I willmiss very much."
Khan was one of the leading exponents of the famousSenia-Maihar Gharana. He lived in Mumbai for almost fivedecades.
Khan performed in New York's Carnegie Hall and theLincoln Center, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and the BarbicanCentre and the Griffith Centre in Los Angeles.
He teamed up with Ustad Alla Rakha, Buddy Rich andPaul Horn for the World Pacific recording company.
The musician also recorded for short film Drop in theOcean and stage show A touch of brightness. His sitarrecital featured in Circarama Film by German filmmaker RamonPelinski which was screened at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
