Recognition
He is the recipient of several distinguished honours in recognition of his excellence in Indian classical music and world music as well. He has been awarded, among many, the Fellowship of the Illinois Arts Council, United States in 2002, and India's highest award for performing arts, i.e., the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2005. In 2006, he was nominated for a Grammy award in the 'Best World Music' category. He is one of the very few Indian musicians who have been nominated for this award (other Grammy nominees and/or winners include sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, sarode maestro Ali Akbar Khan, guitarist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, sitar player Anoushka Shankar; from "Senia Maihar Gharana", Singer and Composer Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon). Among Sarode maestros, he is second to only his father Ustad Ali Akbar Khan who earlier received Grammy nominations. On 24 May 2007 Ustad Aashish Khan became the first ever Indian classical maestro to become a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the U.K.'s highest society in Asian arts and culture. Several Indian media have also declared that Ustad Aashish Khan is "India's greatest living Sarode player".
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