Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, June 2: Pandit Bhajan Sopori, the Santoor maestro and renowned music composer passed away on Thursday. He was being treated at Gurugram’s Fortis Hospital.
Pandit Bhajan Sopori was born in 1948 in Kashmir’s Sopore valley. He belonged to the Sufiana gharana of Indian classical music.
In 1953, Bhajan Sopori gave his debut performance at the age of five. He performed in Egypt, England, Germany, and the United States during a career that spanned decades.
His grandfather, SC Sopori, and father, Shambhoo Nath, taught him western classical music at Washington University and Hindustani music at Shambhoo Nath’s home. Bhajan Sopori was a music professor at Washington University.
For his contributions to Indian classical music, Sopori received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1992 and the Padma Shri in 2004.
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, a great musician and santoor player, died after a heart arrest last month. For the previous six months, he had been suffering from kidney problems and was receiving dialysis.
