Ustad Irshad Khan is the founder/president of Universal Academy for Musicians. USA and Canada's leading and authentic resource centre for learning North Indian Music. Professional and Beginners train in the traditional Guru-Shishya Parampara style. Now accepting students for our E-Classes. (Open for all ages). In the sixteenth century, musicians in the royal courts of India delighted their patrons with sounds of the Sitar. Hundreds of years later, a descendant of that legendary musical lineage makes his home and founded his music academy in Mississauga, Ontario Canada and Mumbai India, and its branch in Rochester (upstate New York). Irshad Khan is a member of the eighth generation of the Imdad Khani Gharana (school) of Sitar playing, propagating not only his ancestral heritage, but Indian classical music in general. As a cultural ambassador, Irshad strives to preserve the Guru-shishya Parampara, the Indian oral tradition of one-on-one instruction. With the support of music lovers, Irshad hopes to implement his vision of expanding his increasing student base and enlist local and international talent to offer classes in Sitar, vocal, tabla, harmonium, guitar and music theory. Online music lessons are also offered through Skype and Facetime.
