Sarod player and composer Stephen Day creates inspirational journeys based on his music adventures around the world.
Born in California, raised in Canada and France, Stephen Day began his music career as a guitarist and then learned to play the sarod in India with world-renowned award-winning sarodist Amjad Ali Khan. He describes the 21-stringed fretless Silver-necked Sarod as the ‘granddaddy of all guitar-like instruments’ and the experience of playing it as a ‘rocket ride for the inner soul’.
Since 1998, Stephen has played at premier venues around the world; including the Kodak Theater in L.A. (home of the Oscars) and Town Hall in N.Y. Since settling down in Los Angeles he has written music scores for 7 films, 4 music libraries, 4 albums and hundreds of television shows. During this time he worked with a roster of well-known artists that includes two-time Gold Disc Award winner Matt Forger (Michael Jackson, Stephen Spielberg, Paul McCartney), L. Shankar (John Mcglaughlin, Peter Gabriel), Matt Malley (Counting Crows), Daryl Jones (Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones), Satnam Singh (Nikka Costa, Hans Zimmer), John Tesh and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Ry Cooder) among others.
In 2006, Stephen organized an international concert at the United Nations where his sarod music was featured as an exemplary uniting force for civilizations and nations of current and ancient times across the East and the West.
Stephen recently released ‘One Heart Highway’, an Indian Classical music album of Ragas for sarod and tablas. His new show entitled ‘Awakenings’, tells the story of spiritual seekers and their quests through world music, meditation, visual effects and dance. In the show, Stephen Day & Friends perform Indian Classical Ragas with Western elements intertwined. Eclectic collaborations between Stephen’s sarod flow together with the steel drums, tablas, Indian dance, vocals and poetry.
For more information visit Stephen’s music and videos online: stephendaymusic.com
