Sunaad Anoor

Sunaad Anoor is born into a family of renowned musicians from Bangalore India. He is

the 5th generation musician from his family. His great great grandfather and his great

grandfather were proficient Veena Players. His grandfather was a very well known

violinist in the country and his father and uncle are percussionists and his mother is a

classical Indian vocalist.

With this background, there was nothing but music running at his home. Sunaad learnt

violin for a few years but was very much inclined towards percussion. He parallel started

to learn the percussion instrument Mridangam from his father Vid. Anoor Dattatreya

Sharma. He was fascinated by the Kanjira when his cousin Vinod Shyam Anoor showed

some of the techniques to play this instrument and asked him to play it in a concert soon

after. That was when Sunaad was really inspired to take it up and practice it! He then

continued his advanced studies in Indian Rhythms with his uncle Vid. Anoor Anantha

Krishna Sharma. He observed all the masters of Kanjira and got inspired and practiced it

until today. He has played kanjira as a solo and as accompaniment in more than a 1000

of concerts from the past 11 years. Sunaad has worked with many symphonies,

ensembles, film scores in different genres of music.

His music has the core foundation of Indian Karnatic music but is also influenced by

genres like, Hindusthani, Jazz, Latin and folk music. He is known for is spontaneous

playing on stage and has a sound of his own which has developed in these years. He has

performed all over India with very eminent Musicians from India! He has also performed

in Germany and Singapore.

He had performed in 2018 with the ”Amithias Project" and the HR Big Band in Frankfurt

Germany, directed by 'Matthias Schreifl" on trumpet.

He has collaborated with notable international musicians such as Matthias Schreifl, Sarah Buechi,

Lars Andreas Haug, Sebastian Merk, Alex Morsey, Hami Keivan, Apoorva Krishna, Jurek

Maczynski, Amith Nadig, Varijashree and more.

Awards and Recognitions:

Has been awarded 1st place in the All India Radio(AIR) competition 2012 for Khanjira. Is

currently an A graded artist of AIR and Doordarshan.

Has been awarded the prestigious ITC - Sangeet Research Academy Award in Mumbai.

Has been awarded TA Harihara Sharma Award from Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai.

Has won the KFAC kalavanta-2015 award.

Has been ranked one among the Top 10 Karnatic Musicians from a Musical Blog called

Humming Heart.

Has been Featured in Urban Ladder’s venture “Let’s Create”.