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Salil Bhatt

Guitarist, Veena artist, Mohan veena artist

Biography

Creator of the Satvik Veena and heir to a 500-year musical legacy, Salil Bhatt represents the dynamic face of the new age, Indian musician. Being hailed as the 'Global Indian Musician', Salil has done it all. From Solo Concerts and International Collaboration to Exotic Jugalbandis and Global Fusions, Salil has not only managed to marvel audiences in India, bit also has a big fan base in Canada, Germany, Australia, America, Taiwan, England, Switzerland, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Singapore, Spain, Austria, and Italy. That too, in just a span of his trailblazing 25-year career!

Having received a Pre-Grammy Award nomination which speaks volumns of his highly successful international collaborations, Salil is the harbinger of rare honors for India as he is the first ever musician to perform inside the Parliament of Germany. He is also the first ever Indian musician to perform in Iceland and the first Indian musician to be invited by the Taiwanese Government for artist residency.

Salil V. Bhatt represents the tenth generation of the famous Bhatt lineage, where music has been flowing for more than five hundered years. Salil is the son of the legendary slide player and India's GRAMMY AWARD winner Padmashree Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Pt. Bhatt is the creator of the Mohan Veena, a revolutionary instrument which has been hailed as a discovery in the Indian classical music scenario.

Salil reflects the dynamic style of rendering the classical nuances on the Satvik Veena in his concerts. His style incorporates the authentic and systematic exposition of Classical Indian Ragas and the embellishments of the World Music as well.

Salil's baaz [style] assimilates the 'gayaki' [vocal] and 'tantrakari' [instrumental] representations which makes his playing complete with innumerable variations. Salil specializes in playing high-speed taans demostrating his great skill on the Satvik Veena. Trained by his mentor Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Salil follows the Classical Indian Raga authenticity to its strictest norms and creates the purest picture of every Raga he plays.

Salil Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. He created the musical instrument Satvik Veena. He is the son of the fellow slide player and Grammy Award winner, Padmashree Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. His latest album, Slide to Freedom 2 - Make a Better World, was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award.

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Pt. Salil Bhatt || Raga Vishwa Kauns|| Satvik Veena|Tabla-Abhiskek Mishra|part-I

Satvik Veena Vadan by Pandit Salil Bhatt-Raga Jog

Salil Bhatt and Kaushik Konwar @Dance of Shiva2017

Pt. Salil Bhatt and Cassius Khan, Shri Music Festival, Jaipur,India,

Salil Bhatt Japan Tour 2015

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Salil Bhatt

Career

Performances Abroad:

Performance at Salurinn Hall (First Indian Musician to perform) - Iceland (Reykyavik)

Performance at Berlin, Augsburg, Nuremberg,Ingolstadt, Dossenheim, Munich, Munster - Germany

Performance at Rome, Assici - Italy

Performance at Bergenz - Austria

Kenyon University [Salil & his father became the first Indian musicians to perform]

- U.S.A.

Belfast [Salil & his father became the firstIndian musicians to perform]- N. Ireland

Performances at Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Canmore, Toronto, Ottawa, Comox, Calgary, Gabriel Island, Canso, Perth, Kingston, South country fair, Ashcroft, Whitehorse, Victoria B.C Edmonton, Winnipeg, Guelph- Canada

Performances at New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Dallas - U.S.A.

Performance at Crowne Plaza - Kuwait

Performance at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan(London), London, Liverpool, Manchester, Burmingham, Bristol, SouthAmpton, New Castle, Nehru Centre- London, Yorkshire - England

Performance at Singapore Fine Art Society, Escplanade Auditorium- Singapore

Performance at Cardigan - Wales

Performance at Aberdeen - Scotland

Performance at Dubai - U.A.E

Performance at Basel, Lausanne,Frauenfeld, Thun, Wintethur, Luzern Heildessieden- Switzerland

Performance in German Parliament in Berlin- Germany 1 st Indian Musician to be invited as Artist in Residence in Taipei - Taiwan

Performance in Chicago, Urbanachampagne, Minneapolis, Albany, WhartonCentre - U.S.A.

Adelaide International Guitar festival Adelaide - Australia Artist Residence at Taipie for a month and 10 performances - Taiwan Strings of freedom concert in Muscat - Oman

Salil Bhatt's major performances in India are:

Chaturlal music festival- Udaipur

Tsunami dedicated concerts- Chennai, Ooty, Coimbatore, Pondichery

Spicmacay Concerts-

Guwahati, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Silchar, Sibsagar, Numaligarh

Swar Sangam Festival- Amritsar

J & K Music Academy- Jammu

Indo - Pak border- Meera Sahib

Spic Macay Fest Concerts

- Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Tonk, Banasthali, Ajmer, Nasirabad, Sirohi, Jalor, Bikaner, Jaipur, Bhilwara, Gulabpura, Dungarpur, Kota, Jhalawar, Bundi

Renissance Concert- Gaya

Performance for Queen Elizabeth II- Delhi

Performance during the Indo-Pak Summit- Agra

Performed in 9th International SAARC Law Conference- Jaipur

Shankarlal Music Festival- New Delhi

Sankat Mochan temple performance- Varanasi

Banganga Music Festival- Mumbai

Kumar Gandharva Music Festival- Dewas

Shani temple performance- Indore

Pracheen Kala Kendra's festival- Chandigarh

Bharat Bhawan- Bhopal

Harballabh Sangeet Samaroh- Jallandhar

Pracheen Kala Kendra's Festival- Kolkata

Gandharva festival- Pune

Shastriya Sangeet Sabha- Karkala

Music Festival- Hubli

Basavraj Smriti Samaroh- Bangalore

Kumbha Parishad- Udaipur

Sangeet Natak Academy- Jodhpur

Music festival- Dharwad

Sankalp Sangeet Samaroh- Meerut

Music festival - Jabalpur

Spic-Macay Inaugural Concerts- Bilaspur, Riapur, Durg

National Games Festival- Hyderabad

Utsav Mahakaleshwar- Ujjain

Virasat Utsav- Raipur

Music Festival- Mysore

Kalidas Sangeet Samaroh - Nagpur

Concert at Protima Bedi's Nrityagram- Bangalore

Spicmacay UttarPradesh Tour

- Agara, Mathura,

Vrindavan, Firozabad,

Shikohabad, Hathras,

Aligarh, Bareilly,

Dadri, Babrala, Kanpur,

Farukhabad, Meerut

Spicmacay Madhya Pradesh Tour

- Reewa, Satna, Maihar,

Sagar, Jhansi, Jabalpur,

Bhopal, Indore,

Hoshangabad, Ujjain,

Mandsaur, Neemuch,

Nagda, Dhar, Sihore,

Dewas

List of Major recording releases of Salil Bhatt:

1- Revitalise

2- Swar Shikhar

3- Sopaan

4- Slide to Freedom (Part I & II)

5- Out of the Shadows

6- Mumbai to Munich

7- Revival of Gavati

8- Relax

9- Karnatikas veena jugal bandi

10- Mohan's veena

Salil is the son of Grammy award-winner, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, the Iconic Indian classical musician.

Awards & Achievements

Major International Achievements

1. First Indian musician to perform in the German Bavarian parliament in Munich in 2005 celebrating 500 years of Indo-German cultural relations.

2. First Indian musician to perform in Iceland for the Prime Minister of Iceland and the entire Icelandic Parliament along with the President of India Dr. Abdul Kalam in 2005.

3. Did artist residency in Taipei for one month, imparting music to the Taiwanese students and also collaborating with Aboriginal singer of Taiwan in 2006.

4. Performed for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC RADIO in remote city of Whitehorse in Canada in 2008.

5. Performed for the Folkways live, in Edmonton Canada and recorded for the world's most famous Smithsonian museum.

6. Performed for the Queen Elizabeth in New Delhi during her historic visit to India in 1997.

7. Performed for the historic Indo-Pak summit in Agra in July 2001, the most important event in Asia at that time for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpaee and the entire Indian Parliament members along with the President of Pakistan.

8. Performed the world famous Epcor Centre in Calgary, Canada in 2008 with musicians from Canada, Iceland, England.

9. Performed extensively in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales for Asian Music Circuit tours in 1995 and 2005.

10. Performed in Australia's biggest International Guitar Festival in Adelaide in 2007.

11. Performed in Chicago World Music Festival in U.S.A in 2007.

12. Performed in All the International fold festivals of Canada including Vancouver Folk Fest, Vancouver Island musicfest, Calgary Folk Fest, Edmonton folk fest, Winnipeg folk fest, Guelph music fest, Canmore folk fest, South Country fair, Ottawa Folk fest, Toronto music fest, Stan Rogers Folk fest in Canso [nova scotia, Canada].