Education

Training in North Indian classical music from his father Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish

• Recent Positions:
  Master Instructor - Batish Institute of Music & Fine Arts, Santa Cruz, California.

• Previous Positions:
  Music Faculty San Jose State University - East/West Fusion.
  Guest Lecturer - Mills College, Oakland, California.
  University of California, Santa Cruz. Cabrillo College, California.

Discography

Solo Works

• Morning Meditation with S.D. Batish Tabla (1980)
• The Third Stream with David Harnish Guitar (1981)
• In Concert with Zakir Hussain Tabla (1984)
• Om Shanti Meditation - Swarmandal Solo (1985)
• Sitar Power #1 - Raga Rock Fusion (1987)
• Sitar Power #2 - More Raga Rock Fusion (July 1994)
• Ashwin Batish Sitar - Live at KKUP Radio with John Taylor Tabla (1999)

Educational Works

• Sitar Tutor Video #1 - Introduction to the Sitar
• Sitar Tutor Video #2 - Begining Sitar Exercises
• Sitar Tutor Video #3 - Tweaking YOur Sitar
• Sitar Tutor Video #3 - Changing Your Sitar Strings
• Tabla Tutor Video #1 - Introduction to Tabla
• Tabla Tutor Video #2 - Tabla Bols
• Tanpura Tutor Video
• Harmonium Tutor Video #1 - Introduction to the Harmonium (Co-Authored with Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish)
• Dilruba Tutor Video #1 - Introduction to the Dilruba (Co-Authored with Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish)
• Vichitra Veena Video Tutor #1 (Co-Authored with Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish)

• Ashwin Batish at WOMAD - Interview and Highlights (45 min.)
• Batish Family at UCSC - In Concert (60 min.)
• S. D. Batish and Ashwin Batish - KKUP Radio Interview/Performance (82 min)
• Ashwin Batish and S.D. Batish in concert at the Renaissance Fair (52 min.)
• Music of North India Concert - Ashwin Batish, Sitar and Sham Kane, Tabla
• In Concert (Part 1) - Ashwin Batish, Sitar and Zakir Hussain, Tabla
• In Concert (Part 1) - Ashwin Batish, Sitar and Zakir Hussain, Tabla

• Winnipeg Folk Festival, Canada
• Vancouver Folk Festival, Canada
• Montreal Jazz Festival, Canada
• Earthsong Festival, Hamilton, Canada
• Womad Festival, Toronto, Canada
• Oxfam Worldfest, California, USA
• World Music Festival, Michigan, USA
• Quebec International Music Festival, Canada
• Nassau Community College Folk Festival, New York
• Worldbeat Festival, Ottawa, Canada
• National Arts Center, Ottawa, Canada
• Club Nu, Miami, Florida
• New Jazz Festival, Moers, Germany

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