Dr. Rishi Ranjan

Artist, Magic Carpet | November 2023

Dr. Rishi Ranjan was born in Chandigarh, India, to a family with great love of traditional north Indian classical music and was introduced to this art at an early age of 5 by his elder brother who also trained in Indian music. He began with vocal music at home and later he became a disciple of his late uncle Pandit Shri Krishan Sharma (Senior music composer at All India Radio, Rohtak).

After completion of his Bachelors in Music in vocal and instrumental, he moved to Bombay and became a disciple of Shri Arshad Ahmed, Shri Chintoo Singh, Shri Jayanti Lal Goshar and Shri Dilip Nayar the eminent guitarist, mandolin, rabab players, music arrangers of the late Ghazal king Shri Jagjit Singh. In order to further his knowledge of various styles of playing Guitar, Rabab Mandolin, Rishi continued his training with such masters of this art.

In 2003 Rishi received the golden opportunity to meet personally with Legend Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (Senia Maihar Gharana – Traditional and oldest school of Indian Classical Music), and his music passion turned towards learning Sarod, then he met his son Ustad Aashish Khan and became his disciple in 2004. Rishi was tutored by Ustad Aashish Khan and his senior disciple Shri Atish Mukhopadhyay to whom he owes most of his expertise in this field. 

Rishi has performed internationally in Europe, the USA and in Canada as a soloist and has accompanied myriad vocal and instrumental artists.

Resurrectio: Act I

The premiere of Resurrectio: Act I at IndieFest sees Morgan-Paige kindle a new era of empowerment in this forthcoming chapter of her musical anthology. This denouement to the Requiem's End and silenced voices integrates spatial audio design, mixed digital media, and interactive technologies (VR) to illuminate the enduring impact of environment on identity, and the struggle to preserve ancestral heritage within colonial structures. In this transformative journey of self-discovery, this musical resurrection will reclaim what has been taken from the ancestors of the oppressed.