Shilpa Shanker Narain

This channel will remain a platform for sharing my own introspections, discoveries, pursuits and meditations into the dynamic and expansive musical genre - Dhrupad. 

Having learnt Dhrupad from Shri Sanjeev Jha and Dhrupad maestros Padmashree Gundecha Brothers, I am currently  pursuing the depths of Dagarvani Dhrupad under the tutelage of Dhrupad and Vedic scholar Pandit Suvrata Sharmana Vandopadhyay. My humble pranams to all my gurus and my father & mother - my first gurus, for allowing me this experience of a lifetime. 

I aspire to bring Dhrupad from being seen as a rigid and orthodox genre, and slowly being relegated to textbooks, to an artform that is responding to a contemporary musical environment, and as a vibrant, living and evolving tradition. On this channel I also share my work on the unique overlap between Dhrupad and Carnatic music through the works of Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar. Subscribe to my channel for concert videos, practice snippets, recordings etc.