Ustad Wajahat Khan - International Career Highlights
Wajahat Khan made his international debut in 1977 and is now well established as an artist of worldwide acclaim. He now divides his time between India and the West, and tours regularly. He has performed extensively at prestigious venues and festivals in over 30 countries - the Indian sub-continent, the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, the USA, former USSR, Africa, South-East Asia and the Far-East.
Some of his career highlights are listed below:
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India
Spending his hectic Indian winter music seasons based in Kolkata (Calcutta) and Mumbai (Bombay), Wajahat Khan has performed at major venues and music conferences of India
including:
- Sajan Milap Festival, Mumbai
IMG St. Xavier’s Music Conference, Mumbai
Hirabai Smruti Sangeet Samaroh, Mumbai
National Centre of Performing Arts, Mumbai
Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Suburban Music Festival, Mumbai
Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan, Mumbai
- Sadarang Sangeet Samaroh, Kolkata
Rajya Sabha Sangeet West Bengal Music Conference, Kolkata
Dover Lane Music Conference, Kolkata,
- Vishnu Digambar Festival, New Delhi
Delhi University
Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- Baba Harballabh Sangeet Mahasabha, Jalandhar
- Maifil Conference, Nagpur
- BHU Music Festival, Banaras
- Maharana Kumbh Sangeet Sammelan, Udaipur
- Saptak Music Conference, Ahmedabad
- the SPICMACAY Concert Series - in New Delhi, Kolkata, Banaras, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Kharagpur, as well as many other towns and cities
all over India.
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United Kingdom
For part of each year he is based in London where he has appeared in prestigious venues and numerous British festivals
including:
- BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall (Henry Wood Promenade Concerts) - London
- House of Commons (first sarod performance in the Parliament) - London
- Spitalfields Festival (on 8 consecutive years) - London
- Capital Radio Music Festival - London
- Wigmore Hall, London
- Windsor Festival (in the Royal Windsor Castle)
- Brighton Festival (at the Royal Pavilion)
- the Snape Proms at Aldeburgh Festival
- Other festivals include:
Glastonbury, Canterbury, Bath, Lichfield, Wingfield, Bury St Edmonds, Norwich and Norfolk Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Nottingham Asian Festival, and many more
- The Sage - Gateshead
- Manan Festival - Isle of Man
- Usher Hall, Edinburgh - Scotland Glasgow May Festival - Scotland
- Numerous concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
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In 1979 he performed for the Commonwealth Conference in Edinburgh where he was presented by Mr Inder Kumar Gujral, the Prime Minister of India.
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USA and Canada
Several concert trips and tours - performing at major venues, festivals and universities including:
- Smithsonian Institute (Washington DC)
- Lincoln Centre (New York)
- Universities of Washington - St. Louis, New York, Amherst, Pittsburgh, Albany, Cleveland, Baltimore, Massachusetts, Columbia, Orlando, Florida, Maryland, Utica, Augustana College, and many more.
- Universities of: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa - Canada
Africa
Several concert trips - performing at major venues, festivals and universities
including:
- Playhouse Theatre (for HRH King of Kwa Zulu Natal) Durban
City Hall - DurbanDurban Film Festival
- City Hall - Cape Town
- Indian Cultural Centre - Johannesburg
- Opera Hall - Port Elizabeth
Bangladesh
Numerous concert trips to Bangladesh, performances include:
- Shilpokala Academy
- Dhaka Club
- Bangla Academy
- Dhaka Museum
Far East
- Traditional Muslim Music Festival of the World, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur - for the Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore (4 concerts)
- Suntori Hall, Tokyo (2 concerts) - Japan,
Yakushiji Temple, Nara - Japan
Concerts in Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka - Japan
- Hong Kong International Arts Festival
City Hall (3 concerts) - Hong Kong
BROADCASTS
Several of his recitals have been broadcast by leading international TV and Radio channels - including:
- BBC Television
- BBC Radio 3
- BBC World Service
- Channel 4 television, London
- Zee TV, London
- Sunrise Radio, London
- Doordarshan Television, Kolkata
- All India Radio, from several cities of India
- NHK TV (Tokyo)
- TV3 Kuala Lumpur
- Lotus Channel, Durban
- Radio Paris
- WDR Koln
- Radio Saarbrucken
- Radio Bremen
- Sender Freies Berlin
For the millennium celebrations he performed an historic BBC Millennium Concert from London broadcast live on the BBC World Service and over the Internet.
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Europe
Several concert trips and tours - performing at major venues, festivals and universities including:
- Theatre du Rond Point, Paris - France
Festivals in Strasbourg, Nantes, Ettempes, Melle, Colmar, Avignon - France
- Philharmonic Hall, Koln - Germany Symphony Hall, Berlin
Important venues and Festivals in Berlin, Munich, Kassell, Dusseldorf, Freiburg,
- Istanbul Festival - Turkey
- The Megaron Centre, Athens - Greece
Herod Atticus Theatre at the Acropolis, Athens - Greece
Ancient Delphi Stadium, Greece
Greece-India Festival - on invitation of the Government of India
- Festivals in Madrid and Barcelona - Spain
- Concerts in Brussels and Antwerp - Belgium
- Mozes and Aaron Church, Amsterdam - Holland
Concerts in Utrecht, Rotterdam, Hague - Holland
- Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz - Austria Festivals in Saltzburg and Halstatt - Austria
- Rietburg Museum, Zurich - Switzerland Festivals in Geneva and Zurich - Switzerland
- Festivals in Milan, Venice and Cabella in Italy
- Concerts and festivals in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
Eastern Europe and Russia
- Festival of India - on invitation of the Government of India
- 28 concerts at the Former Soviet Union, including the Kremlin Palace - Moscow
Tchaikovsky Hall - Moscow
Moscow Conservatoire
Operatta - Moscow
- Festival in Prague - Czechoslovakia
- National Philharmonija Hall (3 concerts), Vilnius - Lithuania
Vilnius Festival - Lithuania
Prazalus Festival - Lithuania
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