Gurdev Singh (musician)

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Gurdev Singh (b. 15 January 1948) is a leading Indian player of the sarod.

Singh began his musical education at the age of seven, when he started learning to play the ancient bowed instrument, the dilruba (which he still occasionally plays), under teachers Ustad Tara Singh and Piara Singh. He was also taught vocal music by Mahadeo Prasad.

Singh began learning the sarod in Delhi in 1967 under the world-famous Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. Since that beginning he has gained great popularity in his native India, where he regularly performs both live and on the radio, as well as internationally. In North America he has played in Vancouver, New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle University, and at the Amir Khusro Society in Chicago. In Europe he has visited countries such as Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark, though he is most popular in the United Kingdom, which he has made his home.

Singh has appeared on the BBC, Midland TV, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, the universities of Bath and Oxford, the 1984 Liverpool Garden Festival, and at the South Bank. He also teaches the sarod.