About Ustad Shahid Parvez:

  • “The Indian sitarist, Ustad Shahid Parvez, was in Karachi recently for two concerts.
     One concert took place at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs auditorium
    in Karachi last Wednesday, organized by the Rauf Ansari Foundation
     (Mr Rauf Ansari was one of the pioneers of
    the All Pakistan Music Conference in Lahore, way back in 1959).

    The Ustad's performance of Rageshri, Des and Bhairveen was out of this world.
    The sitarist lives in Pune, India. He was born in Bombay in 1958. Coming from the illustrious family ofUstad Inayat Khan and his brother, Ustad Wahid Khan,
    Shahid Parvez's mastery over the sitar - rightly called the "Queen of Instruments" - is quite natural for it runs in the family.

    His superb command over sur and taal, the intricate use of meendh and kampat,
    the technically perfect barath of the raag,
     endless variations in taan and the delicate execution of zamzama,
    as well as mastery over laye, speak volumes for his hard work and riaz.
                                    - S.M. Shahid, music critic, The Daily Dawn,  Karachi


“Ustad Shahid Parvez is the best Sitar player in the world today.” 
 (The two greats of Sitar, Pundit Ravi Shankar is aged over eighty and
Ustad Villayat Khan Sahib, who passed away recently,
both have spoken very highly of Shahid Parvez)
                                                                               –Ashok Chakravati, Leading music critic based in Calcutta.

“Vilayat Khan's principle disciples include his brother Imrat Khan and son Shujaat Khan, Kashinath Mukherjee (he is the late film-maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee's brother),
Kalyani Roy from Kolkata, and Arvind Parekh from Mumbai.

 But the liquid grace and beauty of his style is best represented today by Shahid Parvez,
not a direct disciple but from the same lineage of musicians. 
 - Prof. Partho Datta
                                             -  Partho Datta is a musicologist and  a Reader in History, Delhi University. 

Crossing borders of perception:
Reflections on listening to Shahid Parvez
-Dr. Salman Ansari
 



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