Anupama Bhagwat, sitar musician nonpareil, has carved a niche in Indian Classical Music with a versatile & eclectic style. Acclaimed world-wide with a repertoire of global performances since 1995, her sensitivity and erudition has taken her to the highest echelons of the modern genre, while remaining true to tradition.

Anupama, born in family of passionate musicians, began her training in sitar in Bhilai at the age of nine and is today, one of the leading disciples of the world-renowned Late Pandit Shri Bimalendu Mukherjee, a doyen of the Imdadkhani Gharana.

Anupama has imbibed the vigor that is a hallmark of her Gharana: scintillating fast taans, mastery of the meditative alaap and brilliant fluency of melody (raag bhava), all the while maintaining her technical virtuosity. Anupama is one of the finest Sitar players of the current generation, who has acquired the finesse and technical nuances of the Gayaki Style while bringing out its lyrical beauty and subtly nuanced style modeled upon the human voice with the emotive cadences of sitar.

Anupama has been lauded by the connoisseurs in India for her performances at prestigious festivals and venues such as: Doverlane Music Conference (Kolkata), Ustad Amir Khan Smriti Samaroh (Indore), Saptak (Ahmedabad), Sankat Mochan Samaroh (Varanasi), Sangeet Research Academy (Kolkata), Baba HarBallabh Samaroh-(Jalandhar), KM Conservatory (Chennai) and more.

Anupama’s repertoire of performances world-wide span major universities and conservatories, notably: SouthBank Center (London, UK), Ali Akbar Khan School of Music (Basel, Switzerland), MIT Fall Concert Series (Boston, USA), U Penn, Berkeley, Ole Miss (USA), Asian Arts Museum (San Francisco), U of Victoria & Calgary, Musée Guimet, Paris, Musée Des Beaux Arts, Angers, France and many more.

Anupama obtained her Masters in music from India Kala Sanger Vishwavidyalaya, India and received grants in '00, 02, '04, and '08, from the Ohio Arts Council, USA. Anupama has been conferred the title Surmani, by Sur Stingar Sansad, Bombay (1995). Early on in her career, she had won the first position in the All India Radio (AIR) Music Competition (1994), as well as a HRD Scholarship from the Government of India (1993-1996). She is a graded AIR artiste. She has regularly appeared on Doordarshan, India's National Television, WKCR (New York City), WDPR (Dayton Public Radio), WEFT (Champaign, IL), Mood Indigo (California Arts TV) and others. Anupama has collaborated with noted musicians across genres. On the world music front, Anupama has performed at Global Rhythms, Lotus Festival, Cincinnati Choir and more. 

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