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
• Ei Jibon Nohoi Xuna Bondhu
• Jasbir Jassi – Jassi – Back with a Bang
• Kaela Kimura – 5 Years
• Tarkan – Adımı Kalbine Yaz
• Haifa Wehbe – Baby Haifa
• Younha – ''Hitotsu Sora no Shita''

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
• January 11 – Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, 75
• 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