Abhay Rustum Sopori has been awarded the prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy Award - Ust. Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2007. He is the 1st recipients and the youngest musician to receive the award. the award has been constituted this year and abhay also happens to be the only musician from North India to receive the award.

Abhay Rustum Sopori is the youngest santoor maestro of india. He has received a wide range of acclamation in the santoor tradition.^{[citation needed]} Sopori is the son of legendary maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori and grandson of Pandit S. N. Sopori, who is hailed as the father of indian classical music in Jammu and Kashmir. The santoor is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut, with seventy strings. ... pandit bhajan sopori Pandit Bhajan Sopori is often considered to be the greatest santoor player of our time. ... Jammu and Kashmir   (IPA: , Kashmiri:ज्वम त॒ कॅशीर جۄم تٕہ کٔشِیر, Hindi:जम्मू और कश्मीर, Urdu:جموں Ùˆ کشمیر) (often abbreviated as Kashmir), is the northern-most state of India, lying mostly in the Himalayan mountains. ...

Awards

• Kalawant Samman
• Young India Award

Performances

• ‘Asian Music Festival-2002’
• ‘Sankat-Mochan Festival’
• ‘Harballabh Sangeet Festival’
• ‘Indira Gandhi Memorial Concert Series’
• ‘Basant Utsav-Kolkata’
• ‘NDMC Morning Raga Concert Series’
• ‘Spic-Macay Concerts’
• ‘International Doctors Meet at AIIMS - Delhi’
• ‘Sharadh Purnima Sangeet Mahotsava’
• ‘Raag-Tarang Festival’
• ‘Bandra Festival’
• ‘Pranav Sangeet Samaroh’
• ‘Salt Lake Festival’
• ‘Arpan-2004’

Innovations

• open string concept on santoor,
• introduced and designed a new 30 stringed instrument called "Sur - Santoor"

Achievements

• youngest music composer to compose and conduct ensembles and orchestras^{[citation needed]}
• performed in some of the most prestigious festivals of india and abroad
• first prize in the State Music Competition in Srinagar when he was just 10. ^{[citation needed]}
• sang as a playback singer in the ‘National Award’ winning film ‘Bub’^{[citation needed]}
• played for the Signature Tune of the ‘Aaj Tak’ News Channel of India.^{[citation needed]}

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References

• www.santoor.org