Srijan Deshpande

Bio

Srijan Deshpande is a performer, scholar, educator, and archivist of Hindustani vocal Khayal music, and writes on music for leading publications. He is a fellow of the New India Foundation, and is currently writing a biography of Pt. Kumar Gandharva with its support. Srijan has over a decade of experience in the preservation, documentation, and dissemination of music at some of the most important music archives in India, and holds a doctoral degree in music research from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. He has previously taught music at various universities in India including FLAME University Pune and Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. Srijan lives in Fremont, California, from where he performs and teaches Hindustani music, and is also a music research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz.