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Ashwin Kumar Batish Hindi: अशविन कुमार बातिश(born 1951 in Bombay, India) is a sitar and tabla player best known for rekindling interest in the sitar.〔Batish Brings Back the Sitar by Steve Morse: https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294415394.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+25%2C+1988&author=Morse%2C+Steve&pub=Boston+Globe+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=BATISH+BRINGS+BACK+THE+SITAR, Boston Globe, October 25, 1988〕 "Many of his fans are young, college-aged students who enjoy world beat music (music from global cultures )"〔Ashwin Batish Is Sitar's King of 'Raga and Roll': http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=658〕 ==Childhood and Training== A child prodigy, Ashwin would often sing with his sister Meena Batish at performances organized by his father, the composer, author, Bollywood playback singer and music director, Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish (Hindi: पन्डित षिव दयाल बातिश). His mother, Shrimati Shanta Devi Batish (Hindi: श्रिमति शान्ता देवी बातिश), was an All India Radio artist and is credited for starting young Ashwin on the dholak drum around the age of seven and on the sitar around the age of 12.〔Sitar Power - Ashwin Batish's Musical adventures by Paula Kirman: http://www.insideworldmusic.com/library/weekly/aa091401b.htm〕 When Ashwin's father took him to see his friend Ashok, the son of the great music director and harmonium wizard Pandit Bhagatram (Hindi: पन्डित भगतराम)of Bollywood music team Husnlal Bhagatram, Ashwin fell in love with the sitar. Ashok was only two years older than Ashwin and seeing his friend perform made Ashwin aspire towards playing the sitar.〔Sitar Power - Ashwin Batish's Musical adventures by Paula Kirman: http://www.insideworldmusic.com/library/weekly/aa091401b.htm〕 In 1964, Ashwin's father left India to visit one of his daughters in England. Ashwin turned to his mother and shared with her his secret wish to play the sitar. She bought him a student model sitar and started teaching him herself. She had too studied the sitar when young. His mother also presented him with some sitar albums by Pundit Ravi Shankar〔How Ashwin Batish Made the Sitar Cool Again - Ravi Shankar was one of my biggest influences!: http://www.santacruz.com/news/how_ashwin_batish_made_the_sitar_cool_again.html〕 (Hindi: पन्डित रवि शन्कर). Ashwin would listen and tried to take out all the songs from the records to the best of his abilities. It was when Ashwin joined his father in England at around age 14 that he started receiving training from him on the intricacies of North Indian classical music. Ashwin also started learning compositions in various ragas. His father would often sing and have Ashwin copy the musical phrases. He also taught Ashwin many songs based in various ragas that he had studied with his Guruji Shri Chandan Ram Charan (Hindi: श्रि चन्दन राम चरन). Invited to perform at various friends parties and concerts, Ashwin soon discovered that soloing in front of a live audience, without his father by his side, was quite challenging and embarrassing. It made Ashwin realize how much he needed to learn. He became an earnest disciple of his father and was put on a rigorous practice schedule. The cold English weather meant that there was only one warm room in the house where all his family would gather. To Ashwin's advantage and delight, his father would always give his playing the preference, much to the dismay of his brothers and sisters. While his siblings strained to enjoy the British movies and serials on the TV, Ashwin started to show improvement in his playing. On one such day, Ashwin was practicing. When he stopped playing, there was silence in the room. All his family members were looking at him and he saw his siblings nodding and showing appreciation at what he had just played. Ashwin learnt from this experience and started to tune into this new sense of expressive musical attraction. He fine-tuned this ability in his live performances. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashwin Batish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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