Mita Nag
Mita Nag
Sitar
11 Renditions • 3 h 5 m
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Sitar
GHARANA
Bishnupur
AWARDS
Junior National Talent Search Award, Govt. of India1979
Junior Fellowship, Human Resource Development, Govt. of India
Mita Nag (born 1969) is a sitar player who was initiated into music at the age of four. She began her early training under her mother, herself a disciple of Gokul Nag, while her grandfather's encouragement and instruction through singing shaped her early learning, notably in associating the instrument with song. Her tutelage under her father began at the age of six. She made her debut performance at the age of 10, in 1979, the International Year of the Child, and the same year won the Junior National Talent Search Award of the Govt. of India. She has performed solo and in duet recitals with her father in major cities of India and in many cities of the US, Canada, Japan and Europe. She was awarded the Junior Fellowship Award by the Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, for her research project on the Vishnupur gharana. Mita founded the Gokul Nag Memorial Foundation, a trust for the promotion of Indian classical music, in memory of her grandfather.