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Listening to the Sarangi in a House of Music

Penn South Asia Studies


February 10, 2026
Harold Prince Theatre
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This is a lecture and performance about the social and musical world of hereditary Sarangi musicians from India. The main speaker and performer is Dr. Suhail Yusuf Khan, an acclaimed 8th-generation hereditary Sarangi musician who is currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California-Santa Cruz. The event will consist of an academic talk followed by questions, then a performance of Dr. Khan's family's compositions in which he will be accompanied on the Tabla drums by local artist Aqueel Bhatti. 

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