Fiyaz Khan

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Ustad Fiyaz Khan
Ustad Fiyaz Khan [Tabla Player]
Background information
Born	1934, Sikar, Rajasthan
Origin	India
Genre(s)	Instrumentalist Hindustani Music Tabla Players

Ustad Fiyaz Khan is a Tabla player of international repute and belongs to the Delhi Gharana. He was born in 1934 at Sikar, Rajasthan, in a family of musicians. Nazir Khan his father, was a sarangi and tabla-player at the court of the Maharaja of Karoli. Munir Khan his elder brother is a well-known sarangi player. His initial training was under Ustad Hidayat Khan. Then he also learnt under the late Ustad Inam Ali Khan of the Delhi gharana of Tabla. Ustad Fiyaz Khan has also received training in mridangam from Ramnad Ishwaran.

He began his career in All India Radio Jaipur in 1955. In 1958 he moved to A.I.R Delhi. He retired as a staff artist from there in 1993.

He has accompanied many great stalwarts as well as has performed as soloist. He also has travelled the world extensively, for performances. Some of them being participating in the festival of Shiraz, Iran, at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and performances in Australia, the U.S. and Europe.

Fiyaz Khan has had the rare opportunity to accompany three generations of musicians: from the great masters of yesteryear, such as Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Hafiz Ali Khan, Begum Akhtar, Gangubhai Hangal, Pannalal Ghosh, Siddheshwari Devi, Mallikarjun Mansur, and the masters of today like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, the late Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Sharan Rani, Parween Sultana, Amjad Ali Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Ajoy Chakraborty etc.

He has also taught for a year in 1985 at the Washington University and since 1992 he has been a regular at the Rotterdam Conservatory.

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