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