Shantanu Arora is a vocalist and guitarist based out of New Delhi.
He has trained on guitar from the age of 8 and gave his first stage performance when he was
10 years old.
At university and school level, he has won over 70 competitions including Pepsi Storm,
BITS Pilani All India in 2005 and 2006, YMCA, Confluence, Sri Ram College of Commerce
IP College,Miranda House,I.H.E and Rotary Club Delhi University and has delivered over
300 performances till date.
Now 32 and performing professionally, he has performed with various bands including
Silk Route with Mohit Chauhan, All Seven Notes and Hyperion.
In order to promote creativity in the field of music, he founded Shan’s School of Music in
2003. The school gives training in various music instruments including Guitar, Keyboard,
Flute and Vocals/Singing. The school has organized a number of music meets and events,
encouraging students to create and play self-composed music. These events drew media
attention from channels including CNN-IBN 7, Delhi AajTak, NDTV India, DD News, Total
TV, CNEB, Radio Mirchi and Zee News.
Shantanu is a graduate in Economics (Hons) from Delhi University and MBA in
Marketing (Gold Medalist) from Srisiim University.
He is a disciple of Ustad Sabri Khan under whom he continues his training in Hindustani
Classical music.