Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 1984
Music - Hindustani - Tabla
Shri Kishan Maharaj was born
in Varanasi in 1923. He received
his training in the Tabla from his
illustrious uncle Pt. Kanthe
Maharaj. He gave his first major
public performance at the age
of eleven. Under the tutelage of
his Guru, he achieved equal
proficiency in providing accompaniment
to vocal and
instrumental music as well as to
Kathak dance. One of the
foremost Tabla players of the
day, Pt. Kishan Maharaj has
accompanied almost all the
leading musicians and dancers
of North India in the last few
decades. He has also been
acclaimed as an outstanding
soloist. His duets with other
eminent masters of the Tabla
and the Mridangam have added
a new dimension to the Indian
instrumental music.
Pt. Kishan Maharaj has widely
performed in India and abroad
and has been honoured by the
Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak
Akademi. He received the
Padma Shri in 1973.
For his eminence in the field
of Music and his contribution to
its enrichment, Shri Kishan
Maharaj receives the Sangeet
Natak Akademi Award for
Hindustani Instrumental Music
for 1984.