Indian classical musician (1932 ? 2013)
Zia Fariduddin Dagar
(15 June 1932 ? 8 May 2013) was an Indian
classical
vocalist belonging to the
Dhrupad
tradition, the oldest existing form of
north
Indian classical music
(
Hindustani classical music
).
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He was part of the
Dagar family
of musicians.
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He taught at the
Dhrupad Kendra in Bhopal
with his elder brother
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
. He also taught as a visiting professor up to the time of the
Babri mosque riots
. After the riots, he decided to live at the gurukul of his brother
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
at Palaspe near
Panvel
, near
Mumbai
.
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He was awarded the 1994
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
in
Hindustani music-Vocal
by
Sangeet Natak Akademi
.
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Early life and training
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He was born in
Udaipur
, Rajasthan, where his father, the great Ustad Ziauddin Khansahib, was the court musician for Maharana Bhupal Singh of Udaipur. He was taught
Dhrupad
vocal and veena by his father. After his father's death, he continued learning under his elder brother, Ustad
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
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Career
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He has performed widely in India and abroad, and received the Tansen Samman from the
Madhya Pradesh
government and the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
. In 2005, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the North American Dhrupad Association.
By 1980, he had virtually settled down in Austria, where he taught at the conservatory of Innsbruck teaching Dhrupad in Austria and France (mainly Paris). Once, during a visit to India, one of his disciples, the filmmaker,
Mani Kaul
came to him and pleaded with him to provide the background score for a film,
The Cloud Door
(1994)
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he was making on
Madhya Pradesh
.
During the making of the film, they spent over two months in Madhya Pradesh, a lot of time in Bhopal. In those days, Shri
Arjun Singh
was the
Chief Minister
of
Madhya Pradesh
. Cultural development was one of his passions. It is because of him that the magnificent
Bharat Bhavan
cultural center came up in
Bhopal
.
At that time, the Secretary to the Department of Culture in Madhya Pradesh was Ashok Vajpayee. Vajpayee offered to start a government supported school for Dhrupad in Bhopal. Zia Fariduddin agreed to move back to India and to take charge as the teacher at this school. He taught dhrupad for 25 years at this Dhrupad Kendra, under the Ustad Allauddin Khan Music Academy, Bhopal, to students like the
Gundecha Brothers
,
Uday Bhawalkar
, Nirmalya Dey and Marianne Svasek.
He was a distinguished guest faculty at 'Dhrupad Sansar',
IIT Bombay
for a span of 5 years. Dhrupad Sansar was started under the Cell for Human Values to create an appreciation about Indian Classical Arts and Culture among staff and students of the institution.
Death
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He was staying and teaching at the Dhrupad Gurukul near
Panvel
, which was built by his elder brother Ustad
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
and continued to perform in India and abroad until his brief illness and death on 8 May 2013.
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Notable students
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Notable students of Ustaad Zia Fariduddin Dagar include, among others;
Awards
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Discography
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- Chalnat
(New Delhi 1998) (Makar Records, Makcd039 The Lyrical Tradition of Dhrupad ? 9, 1999)
- Chandrakauns
(Moses Church, Amsterdam 1985) (Ragini Sutra, RS 200202, 2002)
- Malkauns
(Bombay 1968, rudra veen/vocal jugalbandi) (Country & Eastern, CE 02, 2005)
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