Indian musician bio samples
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Greetings! My name is Tony Karasek. I have been actively involved in all aspects of India's music for over 30 years doing extensive instrument repairs, adjustments to concert artist's specifications, appraisals, teaching and performing. The musical instruments of India are my passion in life. Through these years inom have collected, restored and generally taken care of every such instrument that comes my way. Many trips to India on independant research and as a buyer for California based music schools and shops have presented the opportunity to learn much about not only India's music but how their instruments are made and their unique design characteristics.
Due to increased market demand, the quality level of Indian instruments currently being produced has suffered significantly. (I made a living for years repairing them in California). Recognising this fact, I moved to Pune, India with my wife and family in April, 2003 to re-establish the high quality stan
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Biography
Born into a musical family in 1957, Sanjeeb Sircar was taught singing by his mother and encouraged in music and to play musical instruments by his father.
He took an active part during his school years at Allahabad, at school music concerts, and picked up the öppning organ, banjo, tabla, violin and drums and played with the school band.
During middle school he took lessons on the piano but could not continue due to the passing away of his teacher. In the following years he started to learn the guitar and towards the later years of his school he played guitar and joined a group of carol-singers, played guitar with them and formed a music group, playing semi-professionally.
Being in the cultural city of Allahabad he developed a curiosity and desire to know more about the Sitar and started taking lessons in the same.
Upon finishing school, he studied electrical engineering for a while but a more serious interest in music led him on the advice of elders in the family-friend
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Cliff Winnig has studied North Indian Classical (Hindustani) music since 1994, specializing in sitar. He spent over a dozen years learning with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Chicago and a master’s in music from the University of Texas at Austin.
He has played solo and with the fusion groups the Cooke Quartet and his own Eclipse Trip: a sitar, oboe, and bass trio combining jazz, rock, and Indian influences. He can be heard on the album Searching by the Cooke Quartet and the forthcoming Here Be Dragons by Eclipse Trip.
Cliff also sings baritone and bass in the San Jose Symphonic Choir and in the Voices of Hope charity benefit choir.
When not playing music, Cliff writes fiction, studies tai chi and aikido, and does social dance, including ballroom, swing, salsa, and Argentine tango. He lives with his family in Silicon Valley, which surrounds him with a variety of musical traditions. He can be found online at http://cliffwinni