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A curated collection of article links and praise for the Artist
Times Of India, Ahmedabad, 5th January 2026 : " Ustad Shujaat Khan’s rendition of Raga Tilak Kamod on the sitar was sheer poetry in sound—graceful, luminous, and deeply evocative. Each phrase bloomed with elegance, carried effortlessly by his soulful touch. The sensitive and perfectly attuned accompaniment by Sapan Anjaria and Shariq Mustafa on the tabla added a shimmering rhythmic canvas, elevating the performance into a moment of pure musical bliss."
Hawa Hawa - Shujaat Khan, Asad Khan - Song - 2025
'Classical music has a unique purity' - Vennapusala Ramya
Ken Hunt.
London, September 2025.
….. Shujaat Khan is a musician who restores faith in the traditional arts…
…… that evening, he was transporting minds….
… as a Sitar virtuoso, no hedging, he is in a class of his own.… There is no Sitariya of this generation to compare with him…
… not “probably “ one of the best… Shujaat Husain Khan was the best sitar player on earth that evening.
Shujaat Husain Khan: Legacy of the Maestros™ - Reviewed by Ken Hunt
Master of the Gayaki - Written by Jenny Limdimaniyar
Shujaat Husain Khan: Sitar allows me to express myself - The New Indian Express
Baithak : 51st Session : Ustad Shujaat Khan in dialogue with Pandit Arvind Parikh
Can't Ever Express My Gratitude to Ustad ! - Review
The world's first sitar recording by Imdad Khan
In 1904, the Gramophone Company sent its team to India in order to record the best Hindustani classical musicians and improve the company’s standing in the marketplace. The engineer William Sinkler Darby and his assistant Max Hampe began their record tour in Calcutta where they recorded, among other things, 6 tracks by Imdad Khan who performed Indian ragas on sitar and surbahar.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting the legendary Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan and his lovely wife Parveen.
An Evening Of Melodious Magic And Great Company
Ustad Shujaat Khan's New Release
Diamond Tree London Presents - Chaand Mujhse
Majaz : A Romantic Revolutionary | Official Trailer | Rekhta Foundation
REKHTA FOUNDATION is Excited to announce that our film ‘MAJAZ’ will have its World Premiere at the UK Asian Film Festival on 11th May 2023, at the prestigious Nehru Centre in London (The Cultural Wing of the Indian High Commision UK) Film ‘Majaz’ based on the life and poetry of the Urdu poet Asrar Ul Haq Majaz, has been officially Selected and Nominated to be a part of the longest running Asian Film Festival in the World. Stay Tuned for more details on screening time etc.
Ustad Shujaat Khan's New Release
Kahan Aake Rukne The Raaste - A Tribute to Amjad Islam Amjad by Ustad Shujaat Khan
PUBLIC CONCERT - USTAAD SHUJAAT HUSAIN KHAN
25th February, Vainguinim Beach, Panaji, Cidade De Goa.
Zindagi Se Badi Saza Hi Nahin - USTAAD SHUJAAT HUSAIN KHAN
5 Million Views
PUBLIC CONCERT - USTAAD SHUJAAT HUSAIN KHAN
9th December 2022, Panaji, Goa
CULTURAL KAARVA'N - VIRASAT 2022
28th & 29th OCT 2022, New Delhi
HOTEL ADVENTURES WITH THE STARS! by L. Aruna Dhir
is truly one-of-a-kind autobiography that chronicles several of Aruna's engrossing true encounters with a gamut of celebrities like Hrithik Roshan, Kapil Dev, Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia, Ruskin Bond, Maneka Gandhi, Kiran Bedi, Khushwant Singh and several others
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - Live in Bangalore, Banyan Tree.
21st August, Navi Mumbai
Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, who placed santoor on the centre stage of classical music, passes away
दुख से हैं सब सिले हुए - अमर उजाला
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - AURANGABAD
13th May Aurangabad
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - NAVI MUMBAI
22nd May Navi Mumbai
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN MUMBAI
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN MUMBAI
26th March 2022 Mumbai
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN KOLKATA
27th March 2022 Kolkata, at the Literary festival
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN MUMBAI
April 9th 2022 Mumbai, for Banyan Tree
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN KOLKATA
16th April 2022 Kolkata, Dover Lane festival
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN PUNE
21st May 2022 Pune
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN GLASGOW
28th August 2022, Glasgow, Scotland
USTAD SHUJAAT KHAN - LIVE IN GOA
An evening of Indian Classical Music, 22 February 2020
Bangkok Post - New grooves for your perusa
November's Transglobal World Music Chart is as eclectic as ever
A Evening of Musical Conversation with Shujaat Husain Khan
Transglobal World Music Chart
Shujaat Husain Khan, Katayoun Goudarzi, Shaho Andalibi & Shariq Mustafa
For the week of 28th September 2021
Most added album on the World Music Charts
Most Downloaded album across ALL formats in the NACC Music Meeting Directory
Praise for 'This Pale' by World Music Central: "The four artists deliver an impeccable, evocative and masterfully-crafted recording featuring stellar instrumental performances and deeply moving, beautiful lyricism". Full article here
Times Of India: " Classical legend, composer and sitarist Shujaat Husain Khan and renowned Iranian-American vocalist Katayoun Goudarzi give new urgency to the age-old love poems of Rumi on their latest album 'This Pale' to be released on October 1."
Full article here
Music retreat at Ananda Spa 17th-19th September 2021: "The musical experience curated by Musiconcepts brings you the brilliance of India's leading maestros Parveen Sultana, Aruna Sairam, Shujaat Khan, Prasoon Joshi, Ronu Mazumdar, Pt. Jayateerth Mevundi, amongst others."
Details here
Deccan Herald : "The moon faced Shujaat does an utterly calming, but uplifting sitar-sur cover of Krishna Bihari Noor's Ghazal". Full article here
Music for Anju Modi's new collection, Sindoori : "My new couture collection, Sindoori, is a celebration of the bride in all her beauty and intriguing complexities. Her innocence, her mischief and her passion come together in shades of ivory, ochre and deep reds for a collection that is about joy and a surrender to love". Listen to it here
Taleem, decoding the sitar with Ustad Shujaat khan, India Music Summit : Watch it here
The Times of India: "Ustad Shujaat Khan enthrals Nagpurians with his soulful music". Article here
The Times of India: "Music, melody and mutual respect filled Vasantrao Deshpande Hall on Thursday evening where renowned sitarist Ustad Shujaat Khan performed at the fourth edition of the HCL concert. As the maestro arrived on stage, the audience stood up to greet him. Reciprocating the gesture, Khan said he was ever so grateful to the audience who spared time and money to attend these events." Full article here
The Times of India: "“Music is an important part of my life, but it is not the sole reason of my existence. I’m a common man and I don’t take myself too seriously.” With these words, the tone is set for a relaxed heart-to-heart…" Full article here
Praise ;
"Stunningly hypnotic." — Broadway World
" this is a very worthwhile disc."— Songlines Magazine UK
"Will You" on Darek Mazzone's 2017 Top Ten Albums
"Passionate and beautiful."— David Dalle, CKCU
"It is no ordinary album. Instead, it's a powerful, poignant, moving and thought-provoking."— Derek Anderson
"Will You is a sublime musical experience "Sublime."— Darek Mazzone, KEXP
"Beautiful voice, beautiful arrangement."— Tony Berry, WRUV
"Current favorite."— Roger Holdsworth, PBS
"The album is magnificent beyond description."— The Score Magazine
"A unique and engaging ensemble of world-class musicians."— KBUT
"This Pale is one of those wonderful collaborative efforts that have come about because of adversity" – Qantara.de
A Rumi touch to emotions
I couldn’t breathe in Delhi. So I decided to move to Goa: Ustaad Shujaat Khan
An extensive and in depth interview of the Maestro by Kavita Chhibber
Katayoun Goudarzi and Shujaat Khan, The Pale, INDIATIMES.COM
Ustad Shujaat Khan’s refreshing notes of Gaud Malhar, THE HINDU
If you want to try to open your ears to "world" music, this might do it for you. JAZZ WEEKLY
Musicians Bridge The Generation Gap HINDUSTAN TIMES
Shujaat Khan at Rockville's Jewish Community Center THE WASHINGTON POST
Transcending Boundaries THE HINDU
Ustad Shujaat Khan on virtual shows INDIAN EXPRESS
Music in his genes, humility in demeanour THE TRIBUNE INDIA
"He has stepped into the shoes of his father nicely and flowered into a brilliant performer, with Shujaat in prime form one did not miss the Sitar monarch Vilayat Khan, where else would one find such an elfin and sprightly tone that seems to set up gleaming sound bubbles, ambling on as if in a merry dance, such lightness and pliancy of touch generating a host of light-winged graces, a never ending source of aesthetic delight."
THE HINDU / 2008
"I am no Xerox!"
"Candid and affable, the two seemingly polarised traits come together most wonderfully, most admirably in sitarist Shujaat Husain Khan. Undisputedly, one of the leading sitarists today, yet, as he puts it: "People'd never let me forget I am the son of legendary sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan."
HT CITY / 2005
"Shujaat Hussain Khan literally commanded the gathering at Quila Mubarak last evening"
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE / 2005
"Dropped from a master, the note glows with a unique warmth and light. Tiny embellishments produced with a rapid, graduated pulling of the main playing string and setting up a concourse of exquisitely pulsating string tones were at once captivating. Absolute accuracy of such a bevy of notes following each other in a running succession and coaxed out instrument with one single jerk of the plectrum is amongst the most difficult in manipulating a stringed instrument."
THE HINDU / 2001
"A miracle of nature is unravelled before one's eyes."
CHENNAI / 2001
"One's primary feeling as Shujaat struck the first note was how conclusively does a single note or word tell the tale of the amount of thought and rumination and years of steadfast hard work behind the same."
CHENNAI / 2001
"Khan's work in the gayki ang style is rich with vocal sounds produced by sensuously sliding melodies.
L.A. TIMES / 2000
"His aalaap has an intensity and a heartwrenching melody that flows spontaneously to touch the listener's heart."
INDIA WEST / 2000
"An exhibition of intensity that's rarely seen in performance on the sitar... trance-including at one moment and jaw-dropping the next...the musicianship was simply astounding."
PHILL GALLO, L.A. / 2000
"Dynamic and breathtaking solo."
EDMONTON JOURNAL / 1999
"Arguably the year's best world music album."
VILLAGE VOICE
"His mastery over the instrument makes his raga seem like an anthem, controlled and tense, with the power of a coiled spring."
NEW DELHI / 1986
"It is difficult to believe that human fingers could move at such speed."
CALCUTTA 1986
"Superb-critic's pick"
NEW YORK TIMES
"The music was as much a speeding locomotive as it was intricate tapestry"
THE WASHINGTON POST / 1998
"The performance was so engrossing that time stood still.... the music seemed to fly and the audience went along for the ride.... a standing ovation."
THE PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND / 1998
"Seductive sliding melodies of his vocalized style, blended into an irresistible expression of creative musical passion."
LOS ANGELES TIMES / 1998
"World music at its best"
BILLBOARD
"The lyrical eloquence was like someone humming phrases, it was magical."
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Played with the refinement of established wealth. The music came to a whirlwind climax; a standing ovation was spontaneous"
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"His music is psychology and wisdom about how to put notes together."
THE VILLAGE VOICE, NEW YORK
"Brilliant mind and brilliant technique combined in young Shujaat, produced a brilliant performance."
DIE WELT, WEST GERMANY
"The passages like some fine lace and the complete Raga played by Shujaat was like a tapestry beautifully woven and fascinatingly synchronized."
FRANCE SOIR, PARIS
"For two hours he unleashed on the Bombay public; his tremendous technical virtuosity with 10 years of training behind him at the age of 13."
BOMBAY TIMES / 1973
"His plucking is more controlled and cleaner than any other Sitarist of his age."
NEW DELHI / 1986
"A daring and dedicated performer, some of his admirers fondly say he plays the Sitar through strings that sing."
NEW DELHI / 1987
"The Sitar is his instrument of speech, of feeling, of expression and creation. Shujaat's touch has the magnified clarity whose fingers can make the string coo like a dove."
NEW DELHI / 1986