"May our western audience privileged to listen to this great artist remain, as so often I have remained, transported beyond dreams and enveloped within the magic weave he spins of sound and time."

Yehudi Menuhin

"Khan's sarod always astounds...Khan himself is the most sensitive, intuitively masterful musician of the age."

San Francisco Chronicle

"...one of the best living instrumental musicians...in his hands, the formidable instrument turns into an unmatched communicator..."

Vijayendra Rao -Philadelphia Inquirer

"...stands apart today as one of the most powerful, moving, and technically accomplished musicians in either the eastern or western world."

West Australian

"...considered by most lovers of Indian music to be the greatest instrumentalist today."

Times of India

"Those present could have little doubt that Ali Akbar Khan is indeed one of the world's master musicians."

Melbourne Observer

"...one of the most uplifting musical experiences of my life."

Paul Lloyd -The Advertiser (Australia)

"Khan is a virtuoso of breath taking skill."

Los Angeles Times

"Ali Akbar Khan enthralls the audience...a complete master of the sarod."

Amarendra-Nandu Dhaneshwar -Bombay Independent

"...a consistent demonstration of the consummate technique and musical imagination that have made him one of the world's greatest living musicians."

Timothy Pfaff -San Francisco Examiner

"...so exquisitely pure, so serene, so painfully human or more than human, and so beautiful."

James Strecker -Arts Beat (Ontario, Canada)

"...turned the daunting challenges into a sensual feast for the uninitiated."

Miami Herald

"...brilliant virtuoso performer...as rich in artistic imagination as technical mastery."

The London Times

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