Brij Narayan

Brij Narayan (Hindi: बृज नारायण; IAST: Bṛj Nārāyaṇ) (born 25 April 1952) is an Indian classical musician who plays the string instrument sarod.

Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and has since worked on movies and toured Africa, Europe, and America.

[1][5] In the late 1960s, he was the subject of a movie, participated in a 1969 cultural delegation tour of Afghanistan with his father, and became a scholar of the Bharat Sangeet Sabha.

[1] Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and became a full-time musician; he performed at the Munich Olympics the same year.

[9] Neil Sorrell has described Narayan as one of the best sarod players of the present time in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

A many-stringed musical instrument, with eight red pegs at one end holding strings, and a long fingerboard that as it widens has further pegs along one edge, holding more strings. The fingerboard ends at a round, covered gourd, with the strings attached at the edge.
A sarod