Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan is a shehnai specialist from India.[1] He was born in Kolkata on March 21, 1939.
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His grand-father Wazir Ali Khan was the first to demonstrate Indian classical music on shehnai at Buckingham Palace. His father Ali Jan Khan and gurus late uncle Nazir Hussain Khan and late Imdad Hussain Khan of Benares were also renowned shehnai specialists.
He has taught shehnai at Sangeet Research Academy, Calcutta since 1974. He is regularly featured on All India Radio and Indian Television. He holds the distinction of composing the signature tune for Indian Television with Pandit Ravi Shankar. He has played jugalbandhi both commercially and in live performances with artists such as Vilayat Hussain Khan on sitar, V. G. Jog on violin and Munewar Ali Khan, vocals. His recordings are numerous and under variety of labels.
Ali Ahmed has extensively traveled in India and abroad. His concert tours have included countries like United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France, Belgium, Russia, Tunisia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines, over a span of twenty years. On several occasions he has been invited/sponsored by governments and/or music festivals. He performed a duet with pianist Peter Michael Hamel at the Indo-German Festival. He participated in Music Festival Raag-Mala in the U.S. and Canada in 1994.