Sitarist · Composer · Session artist
Bhagirath Bhatt
Sitar between two rooms - the baithak, where a raga has all evening, and the studio, where it has four bars.
- 15+
- Years playing
- 40+
- Films & series
- 10+
- Countries performed in
In brief
A gharana upbringing, a cinema career
Bhagirath Bhatt was born in Jamnagar in 1991 and began learning the sitar at six. His father has sung and played tabla in a Ram Katha ensemble for over forty-five years; the instrument was in the room before there was a decision to play it.
He took a Gold Medal in sitar performance at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and studied with four teachers across three lineages - among them the Jafferkhani baaj and the Etawah gharana.
Since 2010 that training has gone into film and series scores, ghazal and devotional records, and concert stages, alongside composers and singers whose names do the boasting so the copy does not have to.
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Classical
Solo recitals and baithaks, in the gharana tradition.
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Cinema
Sitar on scores for Hindi and Gujarati film and streaming series.
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Fusion
Studio textures where the sitar sits inside a larger palette.
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Devotional
A decade of live sitar for Ram Katha and Bhagvat Katha.
Worked with
Sangat
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali Director and composer
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Sonu Nigam Singer
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Pandit Birju Maharaj Kathak maestro
Session and stage credits. Full list on the discography page.
Sunlight on strings
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In print
Prashansa
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Practice
On riyaz, and the hour before it
Practice is mostly the business of turning up before you feel like it.
Enquiries
Invite the sitar to your stage
Concerts, studio sessions, music direction and workshops. Tell us the date and the room, and you will get a straight answer.