Brij Narayan

Brij Narayan (Hindi: बृज नारायण; IAST: Brij Narayan, born April 25, 1952 in Udaipur ) is an Indian classical musician who plays the string instrument sarod. Narayan was born in the Indian state of Rajasthan and learned from a young age under his father Ram Narayan and other teachers to play the sarod. He won the All India Radio instrumentalist competition in 1967, and accompanied his father on a tour to Afghanistan in 1969. Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai from in 1972 and then worked on movies and toured Africa, Europe and America.

Youth

Narayan was born on April 25, 1952 in Udaipur, Rajasthan as the eldest son of sarangi player Ram Narayan. He was taught from an early age in music and began with seven years of playing the sarod. Narayan knows how to play the sarangi, but made ​​the decision to specialize in playing the sarod, on the grounds that it would be back before share over other players of the sarod and that he appreciated her " combination of melody and rhythmic game". Narayan studied for a short time under his uncle, tabla player Chatur Lal, and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan in Delhi, but returned to Lal's death in 1965 to the doctrine under his father back. In 1967, Narayan was awarded the gold medal of the President as the best instrumentalist in the All India Radio competition. In the late 1960s, he was the subject of a film that took part in 1969 with his father at a cultural delegation tour to Afghanistan and was a scholar of the Bharat Sangeet Sabha.

Career

Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and became a full-time musician; He appeared at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the same year. In the 1970s and 1980s, he toured Africa, Europe and America and played recorded several albums, including a collaboration with Zakir Hussain. Narayan played for the movie Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1978 and composed music for the 1988 released movie The Bengali Night by Nicolas Klotz, in which Hugh Grant played the lead role. He was honored in 1996 with the Dagar Gharana Award from the Mewar Foundation and toured again in 1999 by France. Narayan joined the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth in order to attract young Indians for Indian classical music, and played on Music Detected, the 2002 album released by Deep Forest. Neil Sorrell has called Narayan in the music past and present as one of the best Sarod players of today.

Family and Personal

Narayan is married, lives in Mumbai, and has children. His son Harsh was born in the mid 1980s and has been playing the sarangi 1997; both Brij and his son have occurred with Ram Narayan. Narayan works for the Pt Ram Narayan Foundation in Mumbai, which offers scholarships to sarangi player.

Discography

• Raga Lalit, Raga Bairagi Bhairav ​​(1999)
• Raga Raga Shankara and Bhatiyar (2002)