Satendra Biography
Full Name : Satendra Bir Singh Tuladhar
Play : Sitar
Since my father is a satirist, I had an opportunity to touch "SITAR" at the age of six. In the beginning I was learning very light raga music. Then I started to learn regularly for the "Junior Diploma" in classical music at the age of 13 and I got "Graduation Degree" (Sangeet Prabhakar) on sitar in 1992 then I got master Degree (Sangeet Praveen) on sitar in 1996. At the same time I was also joining academic qualification business management and got graduated in 1994.
I started to teach sitar from the age of 13 at my home in the absence of my father. Then I professionally started to teach in schools and private students (Nepalese and Foreigners) since 1994. My first concert tour in Europe was in 1994 with my father and then to Japan in 1997. It is my great honor to became a member of "Sur-Sudha" in 2002.
History of Sitar
In his Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya Dr. Lalmani Misra traces its development from the tritantri veena through the nibaddh and anibaddh tanpuras and later the jantra. Construction of the similar tanpura was described by Tansen. During the time of Moghul rule Persian lutes were played at court and may have provided a basis of the sitar. However, there is no physical evidence for the sitar until the time of the collapse of the Mughal Empire.
The Sitar also said to have been developed in the thirteenth century AD by "Amir Khusro" (Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn al-Dīn Khusrow Dehlavi, the Muslim saint of Delhi) from a member of the veena family of Indian musical instruments called the tritantri veena and to have been named by him after the Persian setar. The sitar is, like the setar, a member of the lute family while the north Indian veena is a zither, but it shares the veena's resonating gourds and sympathetic strings. There are doubts about Sitar being invented by Amir Khusro as he does not mention the sitar (no evidence to support he invented Sitar) but he does mention the tanbur and, by the mid 18th century, Indian tanburs were referred to as sitars.
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