Vineet Vyas, a tabla artist, is a disciple of the legendary tabla maestro, the late Pandit Kishan Maharaj of India. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, he began performing on the world stage in Vancouver at Expo 86. Vineet has performed at concerts across India, Europe, and North America. He has been invited to present masterclasses at many Canadian and American universities. Performance venues include the Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Palace of Fine Arts, SFJAZZ, and the World Music Festival Chicago.
Vineet’s debut solo CD, Taalworks, was a breakthrough album featuring tabla at the forefront and was released in India through Times Music. In 2010, his solo album, The King of Dhamaar – A Tribute to Pandit Kishan Maharaj, received an East Coast Music Association (ECMA) nomination for Global Music Recording of the Year. In 2015 and 2019, Vineet was a finalist for the Muriel Sherrin Award presented by the Toronto Arts Foundation. He is the 2022 co-recipient of the Dora Award for Outstanding Original Sound Composition (Dance Division). In 2022, he released his third solo tabla album, Satyam, which also received an ECMA nomination for Global Recording of the Year.
Vineet holds an MFA in World Percussion from the California Institute of the Arts.
