Indian Classical Music: Jasdeep Singh Degun & Yama Sarshar

Jasdeep Singh Degun Anomaly Concert
2023 de Doelen

Jasdeep Singh Degun is an exceptional sitar player who, like no other, knows how to take the listener into the world of Indian classical music with enchanting melodies (raga), rhythms (tala) and improvisation. On his debut album Anomaly (2022), under the mentorship of renowned producer Nitin Sawhney, he uniquely combines Indian and Western classical music. The album, praised for its elegant and contemporary tone, was in the Financial Times’s top 10 best world and folk albums of 2022. Degun, who performs worldwide, constantly manages to reinvent genres, bringing his Indian heritage to a large and wide audience.

Listen to Jasdeep’s album Anomaly

Yama Sarshar is an International acclaimed Tabla player. Yama was born in Sydney Australia into a musical family from Kabul Afghanistan.
Yama received his initial training from his Father Ustad Sarshar from the tender age of 2yrs old.

Yama travelled to Mumbai India in 1998 to receive further guidence under the late Tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha khan from the Punjab Gharana school of Tabla. Yama has be fortunate and blessed to have studied and toured throughout Europe/Australia with the late Tabla legend Ustad Zakir Hussain.

Yama is a senior deciple of Ustad Fazal Qureshi and studies regularly with his guru at the Ustad Allah Rakha Institute of Music in Mumbai India.

Yama regularly performs throughout the world with all types of music genres and is always in high demand by his fellow musicians. He has performed in Prestigious venues such as the Sydney Opera House where he scored 100% for his HSC exam for musical performance and was asked to perform amongst the top 10 performers in the state of NSW.
Yama has performed for many famous celebrities, such as Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Kenue Reeves, Romeo and Juliet film director Baz Lurhman, Australian Cricket team and Indian Cricket team to just name a few.

Yama has performed with many great Afghani, Indian, Pakistani artists such as, Ustad Naim Nazary, Ustad Sharif Ghazal, Haider Salim, Hangama, Ustad Nashenas, Farhad Darya, Late Nasrat Parsa, Ustad Mahwash, late Jagjit Singh, Anup Jalota, late Pankaj Udhas , Ustad Ghulam Ali khan saeb and Sabri brothers (Qawwali).