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Salil Bhatt

(Creator of Satvik Veena)

The Artist Profile

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.

 

I have found my own place -- The Times of India, Ahmedabad

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Ace Veena- Tura -- The Times of India, Pune

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A musician of Note -- The Hindu, New Delhi

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Salil has carved a niche -- The Hindustan Times, Jaipur

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Like father like son -- DNA Pune

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Hitting the right notes -- Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad

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Global Indian --The screen film weekly, Mumbai

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The Rajsik (Royal) Salil Bhatt -- The Hindu, New Delhi

 

© 2005 Salil V. Bhatt

 

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Satvik Veena exponent Salil Bhatt has been conferred the prestigious Maharana Mewar Foundation Award for his outstanding achievements and his meritorious services rendered in the field of Indian classical music. Salil Bhatt is the illustrous son of Grammy Award Winner Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Salil Bhatt has created a new version of the traditional veena named as the 'Satvik Veena' for which he is receiving innumerable accolades and rave reviews all over the world.

 

List of major awards, honours and titles of Salil Bhatt:

 

1- Maharana Mewar Foundation Award

2- Abhinav Kala Samman

3- Mahakal Sangeet Ratan

4- International Achievers Awards

5- Title of "Global Indian"

6- Title of "Prince of Raga"

7- Rag Bhavishya Samman

8- Grass Roots Grammy Nomination

9- Juno Award Nomination

10- Pre Grammy Award Nomination

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.

 

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].

 

I have found my own place -- The Times of India, Ahmedabad

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Ace Veena- Tura -- The Times of India, Pune

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A musician of Note -- The Hindu, New Delhi

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Salil has carved a niche -- The Hindustan Times, Jaipur

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Like father like son -- DNA Pune

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Hitting the right notes -- Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad

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Global Indian --The screen film weekly, Mumbai

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The Rajsik (Royal) Salil Bhatt -- The Hindu, New Delhi

   

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 first

Indian 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

 

I have found my own place -- The Times of India, Ahmedabad

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Ace Veena- Tura -- The Times of India, Pune

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A musician of Note -- The Hindu, New Delhi

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Salil has carved a niche -- The Hindustan Times, Jaipur

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Like father like son -- DNA Pune

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Hitting the right notes -- Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad

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Global Indian --The screen film weekly, Mumbai

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The Rajsik (Royal) Salil Bhatt -- The Hindu, New Delhi

   

Media Reports:

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THE HINDU, NEW DELHI

 

PATRIKA, INDORE

 

DAINIK BHASKAR, UDAIPUR

 

SCREEN FILM WEEKLY

 

SCREEN FILM WEEKLY

 

HINDUSTAN TIMES, JAIPUR

 

TIMES OF INDIA, AHEMEDABAD

 

LOKMAT SAMACHAR, PUNE

 

TIMES OF INDIA, MIRROR, PUNE

 

SAKAL MARATHI DAILY, PUNE

 

D N A , PUNE

 

THE HINDU, NEW DELHI

 

THE TIMES OF INDIA, AHMEDABAD

 

PRAJAVANI KANNADA DAILY, MANGALORE

 

DECCAN CHRONICLE, HYDERABAD

 

THE HINDU, VISHAKAPATNAM

 

SCREEN FILM WEEKLY

 

HINDUSTAN TIMES, JAIPUR

 

TIMES OF INDIA, KANPUR

 

TIMES OF INDIA, JAIPUR

 

INDIAN EXPRESS, PUNE

 

SCREEN FILM WEEKLY

 

SCREEN FILM WEEKLY

 

THE HINDU, NEW DELHI

 

THE HINDU, NEW DELHI

 

NAYI DUNIYA, INDORE

 

THE HINDU, NEW DELHI

 

RAJASTHAN KESARI, JAIPUR

 

RAJASTHAN PATRIKA, JAIPUR

 

TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

 

BHASKAR, JAIPUR

 

THE HINDU, NEW DELHI

 

Some Press Comments:

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Prince of Raga, Creator of Satvik Veena -- The Times of India

 

An artist ahead of his age and time -- The Hindu

 

Custodian of musical legacy -- The Tribune

 

Son Rises with Mohan Veena -- The Hindustan Times Kolkata

 

Salil is the Dynamic & Dashing New Face of Indian Classical Music -- The Hindustan Times, Chandigarh

 

Rising Star !! -- The Hindu, New Delhi

 

Comparision with his father ingnites his passion for music -- The Indian Express, Hyderabad

 

Brilliant & Outstanding Mohan Veena player -- The Indian Express, New Delhi

 

Salil mesmerises listeners -- Punjab Kesari

 

Like father, like son -- The Times of India, New Delhi

 

Salil is the leader of the new generation of musicians -- Deccan Herald, Bangalore

 

Listeners have been struck by his unfaltering accuracy of notes -- The Times of India, Delhi

 

Salil enthralled the audience at the Pracheen Kala Kendra -- Indian Express, Chandigarh

 

The Young Artist Exhibited Deft handling of the Instrument -- The Tribune, Chandigarh

 

Father's prodigy, simply brilliant, outstanding Mohan Veena player -- The Indian Express, Delhi

 

His sense of Shruti-Laya and Raga Bhava are fantastic, imaginative -- Udayvani, Mangalore

 

The Veena style 'Meends' make his playing highly sensitive & soulful -- Nayi Duniya, Indore

 

Superb command over his instrument and dazzling display of 'Taans' -- Jansatta, Delhi

 

I have found my own place -- The Times of India, Ahmedabad

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Ace Veena- Tura -- The Times of India, Pune

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A musician of Note -- The Hindu, New Delhi

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Salil has carved a niche -- The Hindustan Times, Jaipur

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Like father like son -- DNA Pune

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Hitting the right notes -- Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad

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Global Indian --The screen film weekly, Mumbai

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The Rajsik (Royal) Salil Bhatt -- The Hindu, New Delhi

   

Salil Bhatt can be reached at:

 

Mob: +91 - 9414075648

Email: bhattsalil@rediffmail.com

bhattsalil@gmail.com