{"id":9,"date":"2016-05-13T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/xperson\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2021-09-19T03:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:05:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kapilsrivastava.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Kapil started his professional music journey as a guitarist at a very young age of 17, playing and recording guitar for various kinds of genres as Indian Folk, Regional, Ghazals and Western Classical etc. Kapil also started teaching guitar part-time at several schools and colleges.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Kapil had already performed at hundreds of events (including solo guitar events) for clients as Raymonds, Vishal Mega Mart etc besides doing several recordings for T-Series and Govt. channel Doordarshan.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t His method of teaching started gaining word of mouth appreciation across the city. He was called by various schools, corporate and parents to guide on their student\/s\u2019 musical dream.<\/span><\/p> Kapil pursued his intense academic engagement, while reducing live performances to limited platforms only. It was also was the period of dedicated teaching, researching, writing the guitarmonk methodology and running guitarmonk pilot programs, which was practised unofficially till 2004 and officially as guitarmonk from 2005.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t <\/span><\/p> Kapil received State Award in Guitar excellence by Delhi State Government. It was also the year of establishment of Guitarmonk Records to venture into new stream of music production and expand music works under guitarmonk.With the financial support of guitarmonk education, guitarmonk associated with hundreds of Artists including Ustad Sultan Khan, Pt. Jwala Prasad, Padam Shree Sumitra Guha and several other classical exponents of India etc.<\/span><\/p> Guitarmonk albums got part of Planet M, Music World Stores across India and had huge demand in the hospitality industry.<\/span><\/p> At the same time Kapil as a guitarist entered into a new contract with HMV Sa Re Ga Ma for the list of 30 Underground musicians of India, Kapil was the only instrumental guitarist with the title music \u201cTHE JOURNEY\u201d. The same music became part of Bollywood Movie \u2013 Dubai Returns (starring Irrfan Khan).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Guitarmonk became the 1st musical education brand of India to offer a franchise model, which opened many more centers in Delhi-NCR.At the same time, guitarmonk productions for music albums and education books continued. Guitarmonk conducted regular exhibitions in International book fair and Delhi book fair every year, which received huge sale and appreciation by the people.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tPERFORMED AT 100 OF EVENTS<\/span><\/h4>
1997 - 2000<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
2000 - 2004<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
RESEARCH TOWARDS GUITARMONK METHODOLOGY<\/span><\/h4>
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED, ESTABLISHED \u2013 GUITARMONK<\/span><\/h4>
TELEVISION DEBUT<\/span><\/h4>
While at the same time, Kapil also did a TV Debut for album Lady Chatterjee (the 1st animation concept by HMV Sa Re Ga Ma), and was known across India for his guitarist\u2019 personality. The video played across all TV Channels in India and Kapil was known to people across various places. This further led to demand of Kapil from other cities.<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\tSTATE AWARD FROM DELHI GOVT<\/span><\/h4>
INDIA\u2019S FIRST GUITAR FRANCHISE<\/span><\/h4>