BALTIMORE, Maryland–Dubbed “the godfather of world music” by pupil and Beatle George Harrison, the legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar returns to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for a one-night engagement on October 17.

Joining the maestro is his daughter and protégée, 26-year-old sitarist Anoushka Shankar, herself a highly regarded performer and the only person in the world ever trained solely by her father. The program will feature traditional Indian classical music, as well as hisown compositions.

Ravi Shankar has performed throughout the world for eight decades. In addition to his mastery of the sitar, he is a writer and teacher, and his compositions for orchestra and for film have won him high praise, including a Grammy Award and Oscar nominations for the film score to “Gandhi.”

He continues to tour each season all over the world with regular visits to Europe and the Far East. He is the author of three books: My Music, My Life (in English), Rag Anurag (in Bengali), and Raga Mala (in English), an autobiography that was released in 1999.

Anoushka has been playing and studying the sitar with him since she was nine, and at age 13 she made her performing debut in New Delhi, India. That same year, Anoushka entered the recording studio for the first time to play on her father's recording, In Celebration. Shortly thereafter she signed an exclusive record contract with Angel/EMI. In the autumn of 1998, her first solo recording, Anoushka, was released to tremendous critical acclaim.

Anoushka spent her formative years in London, where she was born in 1981. By the time she was seven, she was also living partly in New Delhi, India, where she still spends half the year performing and helping manage the Ravi Shankar Centre.