Harpreet's music is an act of poetic subversion... he creates a bridge between the written word and music -- Scroll.in, July 2018 Trained in Hindustani classical music at Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in New Delhi. Harpreet has gained critical acclaim for his light classical style of singing. His creative talent fuses both the modern and traditional when composing tunes to his own lyrics and for classical poetry that he loves. He is best known for creating musical scores to epic works of humanist poets like Kabir and Bulleh Shah. Credited for taking celebrated poets to the masses, Harpreet has also composed popular hummable tunes to words of poets such as Pash (Avtar Singh Sandhu), Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Nirala (Suryakant Tripathi). The rhythmic blend of soulful poetry to the pulsating sounds of guitar and percussion are at once unique and innovative, familiar and foreign. On his musical journey with poetry, he has delivered a TEDx talk in Jaipur in 2016. The progressive elements of his artistic practice is not confined to poetry alone. His original composition, Kutte (dog) – a song about a canine’s view of human life -- was selected by award-winning Bollywood film director ibakar Banerjee and Kanu Behl for the film, Titli. Some of his yet-to be-released compositions -- Geet Aur Shabd, Kho Gaye He Wo and Sonapani -- have received wide appreciation in festival circuits.