Kartik Seshadri

Kartik Seshadri is an harmonium artist. Known for contributions to Hindustani classical music, performance, teaching, and repertoire building.

A multifarious confluence of musical influences, Seshadri has toured and trained with legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar and is considered as one of his foremost protégés. In 2005 and 2010, Seshadri collaborated with prominent composer Philip Glass on the critically acclaimed Orion project. Seshadri performs extensively in his homeland and around the world ranging from venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia, to the Dover Lane, ITC, Sawai Gandharva and Saptak Sammelans in India to name but a few.

Seshadri is also a distinguished composer and educator of Indian Classical Music that includes his Quartet for a Raga and his latest “Concerto #1 for Sitar and Chamber Orchestra” received its world premier last October in San Diego.

As an educator Seshadri heads one of the largest programs of Indian Classical Music at the University of California, San Diego besides being regularly invited as a distinguished guest faculty member at various musical establishments around the world such as the Banff Center, the Sangeeth Research Academy, (Kolkata), Stanford University and the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music to name a few. Most recently Mr. Seshadri launched Raga : Rasa ~ Kartik Seshadri’s Center for Indian Classical and Improvised Music.