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He has achieved fame as one of the foremost santoor players in the country, and yet he holds a master’s degree in Science as well as Business Management! It is only in 1987 that Pandit Satish Vyas took to full-time music, that too after a stint as NCPA Programming Head at the National Center For Performing Arts.
Son of the late maestro Padma Bhushan C.R.Vyas, one of the most respected classical Indian vocalists, Pt. Satish Vyas took his earliest training in music from his illustrious father. Born on November 16, 1952, Satish started learning vocal music from his father at the age of 14. Although his initial grounding took place in the idiom of his father it was the santoor on which the young Satish’s heart was set. At the request of his father, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma took Satish on as his disciple. The combination of training under both his father and Pandt Shiv Kumar has given Satish an ability to display both the gaayaki ang as well as the layakari / tantrakari ang in his playing.
Before taking the decision to make music his profession, Satish Vyas had completed his education with a Bachelor’s degree(B.Sc) in Mathematics followed by Master’s degrees in Statistics(M.Sc.) and then Business Administration(MBA). His corporate career took him to work with rather well known organizations such as the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI), National Center for Performing Arts, Philips and HMV (now Saregama). At NCPA, he had the fortune to work with Pu La Deshpande. For over ten years now he has been a Director of Navras Records in India. Navras is a prestigious classical and traditional music label, originally set up in London, whose large repertoire is distributed in India through Sony-NAD label of Sony-BMG Music.
Because of his exposure to the corporate world, his global travel on concert tours and his involvement with the music fraternity and industry, Satish has developed a unique personality. He has very highly developed inter-personal skills as well as an understanding of the practical world of business. His varied background is of tremendous use to him in his capacity as one of the most successful organizers of classical music festivals in India. Pt Satish Vyas has perhaps the unique distinction of having organized and promoted one of the most successful and respected music festivals on an all-India basis,the Gunidas Sangeet Sammelan, established in the memory of his father Pandit C. R. Vyas.Not only has this festival presented all the major maestros of the time, but it also provides a respected platform for younger artistes. Because of his pluralistic approach, he has promoted musicians and music of quality and has gained a substantial following among music lovers across India.
A regular and global concert artiste, Pt Satish Vyas was the only non-Western musician invited to perform in Venice at the Mostra Mozart Festival organized by the prestigious European Mozart Foundation and also had the privilege of performing at the world-famous Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. To prove his versatility, Pt Vyas also performed as a guest musician with the Jazz/World Music Fusion group Silk along with Shankar Mahadevan, Sivamani, Louis Banks and Karl Peters at a Barbican Centre Concert in London.
A Padma Shri winner in 2003, Pt Satish Vyas has released over a dozen albums on prestigious labels like Music Today, Times Music, Sony-BMG and Navras which include Strings Of Your Soul, Raga Marva, Cascade, Parivar Parampara, Char Prahar (a 4-cassette pack), Shaswat, Dream Waves, Pure Silk, Krishna’s Journey, Moods Of Yoga, Raga Dhankoni Kalyan and YOGA. His latest album is Maestro’s Choice.
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