Pravah Khandekar is vocalist, composer and percussionist, originally trained in the lineage of Dhrupad and Hindustani Music. His work engages closely with contemporary jazz and Middle Eastern styles, and he extensively collaborates with artists from the SilkRoad Ensemble, Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. Pravah’s mother is his first Guru, following which he was initiated in the Dagar-Vaani Dhrupad by late Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar. Dhrupad continues to inform his practice, and is currently mentored by Pandit Uday Bhawalkar.
Notable Performances
Unheard Sounds, with Chao Tian and Ezra Rudel, Chapel of 1959, Harvard University
Global Musicians Workshop with Silk Road, 2024 | Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, USA
Opening performance for President Claudine Gay’s Inauguration, Harvard Yard, Harvard University
Global Voices: Cambridge, 2023 | Swedenborg Chapel, Harvard University, Supported by Massachusetts Cultural Council
Swedenbord Chapel, 2023 | Harvard University
Elsewhere, 2023 | Harvard Graduate School of Design
Boston Meshk Turkish Ensemble, 2023 | Holden Chapel, Harvard University
World Music Collective, Spring 2023 | Harvard University
World Music Collective, Fall, 2022 | Harvard University
Aaeen, 2022 | A Musical directed by Atul Kumar, Prithvi Theatre, India
Liminoid, 2021 | Experimental Piece with Nepalese Folk Artists, Mustang, Nepal
Listening to Spaces, 2019 | Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, India
Suspension of Disbelief, 2019 | Experimental theatrical work with Ratna Pathak Shah, Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, India
Kafan, 2017 | Adaptations from Munshi PremChand, IIT Kanpur, India
Naad Bhed, 2014 | All India Radio, Doordarshan, Lucknow, India
Dhrupad Vocal invocation, 2014 | SPIC MACAY National Convention, IIT Kanpur, India
