2010 in Asian music
# 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
