Chinmaya Dunster

Chinmaya Dunster

Chinmaya Dunster was born in Kent in 1954. After attending Art College, he travelled through Afghanistan to India. There he heard a performance by the world-famous sarodist Amjad Ali Khan and instantly fell in love with the sarod, a nineteen-stringed, banjo-like Indian classical instrument. Three years later, while teaching art at a school in London, he became a student of Amjad Ali Khan’s leading disciple.

He dedicated the next thirteen years to the study of Indian classical music on the sarod, both in London and at the Osho Commune in Pune, India.

He currently works for New Earth Records and Malimba Records from his present home in Auckland, New Zealand.

His current musical direction is to develop songs based on expanded consciousness.