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Arjun has spent his entire life steeped in the tradition of North Indian Classical Music. The son of internationally performing sitarist Roop Verma, a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar, Arjun began learning sitar from his father at age five.
As a teenager, Arjun was deeply inspired by the preeminent sarode maestro, Ali Akbar Khan, and he ultimately moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to study directly with Ali Akbar Khan for eight years at the Ali Akbar College of Music. In 2007, Arjun was awarded a Shenson Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation to support his continued study at the Ali Akbar College of Music. Since the Maestro’s passing in 2009, Arjun has continued his training under the able guidance of Ali Akbar Khan’s son, Alam Khan. Arjun has also received guidance from Smt. Annapurna Devi.
With over 25 years of performance experience at venues including the United Nations (Geneva), the Fillmore (San Francisco), Fox Theater (Oakland), Pattee Arena (Monterey), Prague Castle (Prague), and the New School (New York), Arjun has emerged with a unique voice on the sitar.
Arjun has performed with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Alam Khan, Pandit Sharda Sahai, Ustad Shabbir Nisar, Indranil Mallick, Salar Nader, Nilan Chaudhuri, Anirban Roy Chowdhury, Bob Weir, and the St. Louis Symphony.
Arjun’s music has received critical acclaim from the New York Times, Sruti Magazine, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
