Sitarist Vatsal Dave performs North Indian (Hindustani) classical music across the United States, Europe and India. Upcoming and recent concerts are listed below, most recent first.
Ahmedabad, India · Saturday, September 26, 2026
Vatsal Dave presents a North Indian (Hindustani) classical sitar recital at Sankalp, a festival of Saptak — one of India’s foremost institutions for Hindustani classical music. Programme, venue and ticket details are published by the festival at www.saptak.org.
Sitarist Vatsal Dave performed an intimate North Indian classical sitar recital in New York City on Sunday, July 26, 2026, presented by Chhandayan, with Aditya Pathak on tabla. Watch clips from the concert below.
Vatsal Dave — a sitarist in the Imdadkhani (Gayaki) gharana and a disciple of Padma Bhushan Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee — brings an evening of North Indian (Hindustani) classical music to Manhattan. The program is a solo sitar recital of ragas, from a meditative alap to rhythmic interplay with the tabla, accompanied by Aditya Pathak.
The concert took place on Sunday, July 26, 2026, from 4:30 to 6:00 PM EDT at CCIM (the Chhandayan Center for Indian Music), 269 West 39th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10018, presented by Chhandayan. It was performed live in person and streamed worldwide.
A few moments from the recital — including Raga Puriya Dhanashree and Raga Khamaj — are shared below.
Recorded at the Chhandayan Center for Indian Music (CCIM), Manhattan, on July 26, 2026 — an evening of North Indian (Hindustani) classical sitar. The first three clips trace Raga Puriya Dhanashree from its slow vilambit unfolding, through a faster drut, to a cascading jhala, closing with Raga Khamaj.
Vatsal Dave — sitar · Aditya Pathak — tabla · Presented by Chhandayan
Raga Puriya Dhanashree · Vilambit — the slow, meditative unfolding
Raga Puriya Dhanashree · Drut — the faster, rhythmic gat
Raga Puriya Dhanashree · Jhala — the cascading climax
Raga Khamaj — a romantic light-classical raga to close