Sunday, September 29, 2013
ANUPAMA BHAGWAT (born 1974) is an Indian sitar player.
Bhagwat was born in Bhilai, India. She was
introduced to playing sitar at the age of nine by her uncle. Bhagwat
trained under R. N. Verma of theMaihar gharana and traveled to Bhilai at
the age of 13 to train under Bimalendu Mukherjee of the Imdadkhani
gharana. She performed for All India Radio beginning in 1994 and
was awarded a national scholarship by the Indian Ministry of Human
Resource Development.
Bhagwat performed in India and the United States. She
is based in the United States, and married. Bhagwat continues to
train as a sitarist and listens to Indian classical singers to improve her technique.
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