A sitar and a piano can share a stage, but they can never truly agree on a single note. One is tuned to the pure ratios of physics, the other to a grid that deliberately breaks them, and here is the ...

June 2026, including Alejandro Falcón, Colin Heshmat, Jan Grabowski, Scott Hamilton, Mike Jones // Editor's pick: Colin ...

His ardent fans call him "the Maestro". Five decades after his debut, Ilaiyaraaja's music still echoes through homes, concert halls and cinema screens across India. The 83-year-old composer from Tamil ...

Kuala Lumpur will once again take centre stage in the global arts landscape as the Malaysia International Carnatic Music Festival 2026 (MYICMF 2026) returns from April 24-26, and among the starry ...

Western instruments have long been part of Carnatic music’s landscape. The violin is credited as one of the earliest to be adapted into Carnatic concerts in the early 19th century by Baluswami ...

Back in eighth grade, when most kids’ notebooks were filled with sneaky games of Flames and tic-tac-toe, Gayathri Krishnan scribbled a dream for the future. “I want to go to Berklee College of Music,” ...

Long abandoned university halls of residence will be carefully demolished to make way for more than 140 new homes. Liverpool Council’s planning committee has signed off on proposals for the Carnatic ...

The violin has a storied place in so much of European classical music. But sometime in the 17th century, it began to intrigue maestros from a very different and ancient music tradition. Fred de Sam ...

Munz - he chose the name for himself in order not to give away his religion or caste to strangers - is the frontman of The Down Troddence (TDT), a folk-thrash metal band based in Bengaluru.

When Rishab Rikhiram Sharma released the music video for Bijli, a track from his album Navaras, last year, he knew the song would go viral. It’s based on Raga Kirwani, and is as thunderous as the name ...

It is that time of the year in Chennai when the city goes Carnatic. The December event, popularly called the Margazhi music season after the Tamil month, is only four years from completing a century.