Siddharth Kishna was brought up in an atmosphere of Indian classical music. In his early age, he was exposed to various great musicians who inspired in him a reverence for Indian classical music.
He started learning sitar at an early age from Ustad JamaluddinBhartiya, under whose guidance he studied the basics of sitar playing. He continued his study at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands under Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee. In 1996, Siddharth was invited by the Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai to perform during the seminar Indian music and the West in which he was introduced as one of the most promising sitarists based in the West.
- Excerpt of the bio of Siddharth Kishna, one of the artists partaking in our project for the upcoming documentary: “Ela Gandhi in Nederland” (Ela Gandhi visits Holland)
- Check out some of his own work on his Myspace account!