title: 2010 in Asian music
text: # 2010 in Asian music
  
  ## Events
  
  * March 5–7 – The 6th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival opens in Jakarta.
  * March 22 – Daniel Barenboim is awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
  * August 15 – "Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto", written by musician A. R. Rahman, is approved as the official anthem of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
  * October 3 – At the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, musical performers include:
     * Drummers from Kerala, Manipur, Karnataka, Orissa, Punjab and Meghalaya, including 7-year-old tabla prodigy Keshav.
     * Hariharan
     * Dancers including Birju Maharaj, Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, Saroja Vaidyanathan, Sonal Mansingh and Bharati Shivaji
  
  ## Albums
  
  * Betzefer – Freedom to the Slave Makers (Israel)
  * Ei Jibon Nohoi Xuna Bondhu (compilation album; India)
  * Jasbir Jassi – Jassi – Back with a Bang (India)
  * Kaela Kimura – 5 Years (Japan)
  * Tarkan – Adımı Kalbine Yaz (Turkey)
  * Haifa Wehbe – Baby Haifa (Lebanon)
  * Younha – Hitotsu Sora no Shita (South Korea)
  
  ## Classical
  
  * Mehdi Hosseini
     * Taleshi Hava, for solo violin and bassoon
     * An Unfinished Draft, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and baritone
     * Pause, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and tubular bells
  
  ## Opera
  
  * The Child Dreams, by Gil Shohat
  * Madame White Snake, with music by Zhou Long and libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 7 – Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer (gas leak)
  * January 11 – Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, 75
  * March – Farman Behboud, Iranian pianist and piano teacher, 63
  * March 22 – Yanie, Malaysian singer
  * April 22 – Fred Panopio, Filipino folk singer, 71
  * June 12 – Fuat Mansurov, Russian conductor, 82
  * July 15 – Luo Pinchao, Chinese opera singer, 98
  * November 2
     * Rudolf Barshai, Russian violist and composer, 86
     * Kalim Sharafi, Bangladeshi singer, 85
  