Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an Indian musician and composer who was the foremost exponent of the santoor, a 100-string instrument similar to the hammered dulcimer, died Tuesday at his home in Mumbai. He ...

Amitabh Bachchan paid tribute to Pandit ShivKumar Sharma, who began his journey in music as a tabla player when he was only five but soon found his calling in santoor, a stringed folk instrument from ...

Renowned musician Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the maestro who introduced the santoor to global audiences, once said, “We don’t perform to impress. We perform to express.” And when one looks at his work, ...

Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma, who elevated the 100-stringed hammered dulcimer to classical concert stages around the world, died Tuesday in Mumbai at age 84. He created a famously ...

He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...