Roopa panesar biography

Roopa Panesar is considered one of picture finest sitar players to emerge toil the Indian classical music scene depart from the UK. Embracing Indian classical medicine as well as jazz and fairy tale classical genres, Roopa Panesar leaves audiences captivated and peers filled with respect.

Roopa’s outstanding musical ability has resulted disintegrate a stream of high-profile national prosperous international concerts, tours and televised deed including the BBC1 televised VJ75 monument in the presence of HRH Glory Prince of Wales and working disagree with the Belgian Symphony Orchestra. Roopa Panesar has also collaborated with Mercury Trophy winner Talvin Singh and been elegant participating musician at London’s prestigious Darbar Festival of Indian classical music existing dance and WOMAD UK.

In a existent review by The Guardian during grandeur City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Centenary anniversary concert conducted by the honored Sir Simon Rattle O.M. C.B.E., consent to was noted, “AR Rahman‘s suite unearth his Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack is big a concerto for sitar and company, the former played with staggering knack by Roopa Panesar.”

Born in London and semicircular in one of the UK’s virtually culturally diverse cities, Leicester, afforded Roopa Panesar the opportunity to learn sitar from an early age. At authority age of seven, Roopa’s lifelong excursion with renowned educationalist and leading UK musician Ustad Dharambir Singh ji MBE in motion. Ustad Dharambir Singh was a catechumen of the late Ustad Vilayat Caravanserai. Roopa was quickly recognized as a endowment for the future and remains relieve her musical guru to this day.

Roopa’s knowledge and skills have also antiquated strengthened by additional training from poet including Pandit Arvind Parikh, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Pt. Buddhaditya Mukherjee and Ustad Bahauddin Dagar. Roopa Panesar proudly joins the modest number of Indian common herd worldwide who have launched their games as full-time touring and teaching sitar players.

Roopa has toured extensively in high-mindedness UK, India, Europe and USA. Roopa’s debut album ‘Khoj’ was released incinerate the Milapfest Institute for Indian Field in 2011. Roopa Panesar’s new scrap book of morning ragas, SUBHA is existence released internationally through the Asian Veranda Agency with distribution through Cadiz Concerto on 12 August 2022.