JASDEEP SINGH DEGUN sitar

Jasdeep Singh Degun & Gurdain Rayatt

Cast, Doncaster
Thursday 13 November 2025, 7.15pm

Tickets from £13

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Jasdeep Singh Degun (sitar) and Gurdain Rayatt (tabla).

Multi-award-winning sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun has collaborated with musicians from a wide range of musical backgrounds, including Cerys Matthews, Nitin Sawhney, Mel C and as artist-in-residence with Opera North.

This concert sees Jasdeep sharing intimate duets with tabla player Gurdain Rayatt in masterful improvisations rooted in thousands of years of Indian tradition.

Jasdeep is highly regarded as an artist who is continually pushing the versatility of his instrument and reshaping the musical landscape for his peers, and for generations to come. Amid artist residencies and fellowships, an international concert schedule and royal command performances, Jasdeep’s lifelong training in gayaki ang – a lyrical approach to the sitar that mimics the human voice – has remained his anchor and his passion.

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About the Artists

Jasdeep Singh Degun

Breaking down cultural boundaries with his extraordinary artistry and new approach to composition, virtuoso sitarist, Jasdeep Singh Degun, brings a new energy and vision to both Indian classical and contemporary music. He’s redefining genres and passionate about exposing music from his heritage to audiences across the globe. Learning under the careful guidance of Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE, Jasdeep has performed all over the world in many high profile productions and prestigious venues, including Buckingham Palace, the Amphitheatre in Doha, and Westminster Abbey at the Royal Commonwealth Service 2022 in the presence of the British Royal Family and Prime Minister.

Signed to the prestigious Real World Records, Jasdeep released his much anticipated debut album titled ‘Anomaly‘, working under the guidance of celebrated musician and producer Nitin Sawhney. Jasdeep was announced as Artist-in-Residence at Opera North, and in 2022 he was composer, co-music director and soloist in Opera North and South Asian Arts-uk’s acclaimed opera Orpheus. This production garnered five-star reviews and earned Jasdeep a 2022 Critics’ Circle Music Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Opera”.

Gurdain Rayatt

Gurdain Rayatt (UK) is one of the most exciting and established tabla players in Britain today. Classically trained from the age of just three by his father and grandfather, Gurdain undertook advanced training in India and has performed alongside some of the greats of the Hindustani music tradition, including Anoushka Shankar, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Birju Maharaj and Ustad Shahid Parvez. Outside the classical field, he’s a member of Kefaya (Songlines Magazine Winners in 2017 and 2020) and has collaborated with a range of music genres both at home and abroad. Read more.