| These weekly recitals are linked by a common aim to show a range of styles belonging to a distinct and separate lineage or gharana. |
| This year's festival will see a special emphasis on the Gwalior gharana. |
| The gharana is characterised by straight vocal inflection and stresses on bringing out the emotional content of a raga. |
| Versatile percussionist Shawn Mativetsky is a ganda-band disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai of the Benares tabla gharana and has also studied tabla with Bob Becker. |
| Subhra Guha comes from the Agra gharana, one of the greatest classical music training schools in Northern India. She possesses the magic gift of combining charisma with an impeccable technique. |
| Amanat Ali Khan was born in 1932 in Sham Chaurasi, Hoshiarpur, Punjab to Akhtar Husain Khan and the grandson of Ali Baksh Khan, the founder of Patiala Gharana. |
