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Chhandayan Kolkata Concert

  • Aashish Khan School of World Music 131/34, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road (Near Ranikuthi Telephone Exchange) Kolkata - 700040 India (map)

Vocal - Aniruddha Bhattacharya
Tabla - Debabrata Gupta
Harmonium - Pradip Palit

Vocal - Abhinandita Chatterjee
Tabla - Puranjoy Ghosh

Admission - Free


Pt. Aniruddha Bhattacharya
"A Vocalist With A Golden Voice" - The Hindu

Pt. Aniruddha Bhattacharya is one of the most accomplished vocalists of the Kirana Gharana of Hindustani Classical music. He has been performing extensively across India and overseas including touring in the USA, the UK, and France where he featured among the stalwarts of classical music.  Born in 1971, a young Aniruddha loved music enough to start listening, appreciating, and learning from a very early age under the able guidance of his mother Smt. Gouri Bhattacharya - one of the earliest disciples of Pt. A. Kanan and an outstanding vocalist herself.

In 1989, Shri Bhattacharya's formal training started at the feet of veteran gurus Pt. A. Kanan and Smt. Malavika Kanan.  In 1990 he entered the ITC Sangeet Research Academy as a scholar.

He had an outstanding academic record, and was an Honours Graduate in Zoology from the University of Calcutta.  However, he decided to pursue a career in music and was recognized as a musician and resident tutor by the ITC SRA a few years later.

The Sur Singar Sansad of Mumbai awarded him the coveted "Surmani" title in June 1998.  Accolades have continued to pour in whenever and wherever he performed.  He is an "A" grade artiste with All India Radio and has done multiple national programs for them.  He is an empaneled musician with Doordarshan and ICCR as well.  He has performed in numerous music festivals all over the world.

He is currently the Head of the Department, Guru, member of the expert committee, and a scholarship examiner at the Shakri Begum Memorial Trust in Kolkata, an institute run by Ust. Rashid Khan.  He has also been judging Indian classical music competitions throughout India.

He is also an adept poet and composer in both the Indian and Western classical traditions.  He has two Bengali poetry books to his credit which were released at the prestigious Kolkata International Book Fair.

While not performing or traveling, his days are spent in research around the finer nuances and emotianal expressions of ragas, new compositions, and literary creations.


Debabrata Gupta

Debabrata Gupta is an eminent name in the field of tabla.
Born into a musical family, he began his training at the age of four.  His gurus include Sri Subhash Thakur of the Delhi Gharana, Sri Alok Saha of the Punjab Gharana, and Sri Subrata Gupta of the Farroukabad Gharana. Debarata was fortunate to receive advanced training from Pt. Shankar Ghosh for 15 years and specialized training in taallaya from Pt. Bickram Ghosh. Debabrata’s diverse training even includes South Indian percussion under Guru N. Shankar and Sarode under Sri Amitava Mazumdar.


Debarata was awarded the "Kala Ratnam" award by the T.T. forum in 2016.

He has thrilled audiences as a solo performer and as an accompanist in major festivals and concerts.

 


Pradip Palit

In the domain of Indian Classical Music, Mr. has established himself as one of the most talented harmonium players of his generation. He was blessed with the “Sangeet marg darshan” from musical guru Late Pandit A Kanan.

He started learning as a child from his mother Smt. Chhanda Palit from childhood.  He later learned from  Sri Mongalmoy Bhattacharya and then from  Sri Saroj Ghosh a disciple of the Late Pandit Prasun Banerjee.  He also had training in Indian classical music expression in Harmonium from Pandit Deboprasad Dey.  He is now undergoing a special training in Harmonium wizard from Pandit Jyoti Goho in ITC-Sangeet  Research Academy.