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         Born in France in 1980, Madhav started to learn western classical on saxophone at an early age. He was performing with different projects in France, in various jazz  and gipsy bands. During his first visit to India at the age of 22, he saw in the temple of Udupi in Karnataka some saxophone players playing south indian music, and he got touched by the sound and the spirit of devotion of their music. He left everything and moved to India at the age of 23 where he started to learn Carnatic Classical Music from an Indian saxophone master : Haridas Dogra . For 4 years he performed with his guru in different temples and weddings in South India.

        In 2007, he arrived in Varanasi and started to learn intensively Hindustani Classical Music from a great vocalist, Pt Devashish Dey, following him with the bansuri flute. With him he learnt hundred of ragas and vocal compositions, and started to reproduce his bansuri technique on the saxophone, alto and soprano, trying to overcome the limitations of this western instrument. He performed many concerts in India on bansuri and saxophone. He also started multi-cultural projects, playing with musicians from all over the world that he met in India, coming back to his musical roots and adapting his skills to middle eastern musics. His heart nevertheless is deeply tuned in the vibration of Indian Music.