Career
Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar lives in Lalitpur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar was leader and Associate Professor of the Sitar master class at Padma Kanya Multiple College under Tribhuvan University, Nepal, from 1974 until his retirement in 2006. He still continues in giving a classical North Indian Sitar class at Kathmandu University’s Department of Music in Bhaktapur.
Earlier he played for seven years in the Royal Nepal Academy orchestra.
Since 1994 he is also teaching the Sitar class of GEMS high school at Sanepa height, Lalitpur. Together with Surendra Shresta (Tabla) and Prem Rana (Flute), Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar joined in 1984 the Nepalese band Sur Sudha with the aim of interpreting and presenting traditional Nepali music in the own country and to the world.
With Sur Sudha he continued to collect traditional tunes from remote and rural areas of Nepal, from Terai region up to the villages high in the Himalayas, and to arrange these melodies for concerts on stages in Europe, India, Japan and the United States of America. With Rudra Lai Tamrakar on Tabla and Shree Badan Shrestha on Tanpura Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar also performs and interprets classical music from Nepal with the band “Annapurna Group” of Kathmandu. Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar gave charity performances as solo sitarist, recitals and workshops with students not only in Nepal and India, but also in Europe, Japan and the United States of America.
He has been considered as individual Nepalese artist reference (Essential Scores and Sound Recordings) by the American Library Association.
Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar has recorded several music albums, both solo and accompanied by other artists. Nepal Sitar, Sitar Kaasa, Symbol of Nepal and Festivals of Nepal are four of his most popular music albums. He also contributed to the multimedia music project "Playing for Change", which was created by the American producer and sound engineer Mark Johnson.