About Madhav
Born in France in 1980, Madhav started to learn music on saxophone at an early age.
He became performing at 16 with different projects in France, mostly in jazz and gipsy musics.
During his first visit to India at the age of 22, he saw in the temple of Udupi in Karnataka some saxophone players playing south indian music, and he got touched by
the sound and the spirit of devotion of their music.
He left everything and moved to India at the age of 23 where he started to learn Carnatic Classical Music from an Indian saxophone master : Haridas Dogra .
For 4 years he performed with his guru in different temples and weddings in South India.
In 2007, he arrived in Varanasi and started to learn intensively Hindustani Classical Music from a great vocalist, Pt Devashish Dey, following him with the bansuri flute. With him he learnt hundred of ragas and vocal compositions in a span of 5 years, and started to reproduce his bansuri technique on the saxophone, alto and soprano, trying to overcome the limitations of this western instrument.
He performed many concerts in India on bansuri and saxophone, and started teaching as well. For 5 years he performed on big stages in India with the Mumbai based fusion band Maati Baani staring Indian classical singer Nirali Kartik.
He also stayed in Goa for many seasons where he started multi-cultural projects, playing and learning with international musicians from Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Europe, India , exploring both traditional and modern ways of improvisation. He started developing his original music in Goa through his band Mr Destiny .
In 2019 he moved to Israel where he joined many projects in Balkan , Jazz and World music (Zohar Fresco quartet, Qawalia ), as well as continuing to teach and perform Indian Classical Music .
In 2023 he started his new quartet, as a natural outcome of all these years learning and performing with others . His new compositions are a blend of Indian music and spiritual jazz ,
where the ragas are free to explore other spheres.