Vocal - Koushik Bhattacharya
Tabla - Sandip Ghosh
Koushik Bhattacharya will sing Raga Jayjawanti
Admission: Free
Koushik Bhattacharya
Koushik Bhattacharya began his training at a very early age under the guidance of his father, Pt. Pataki Bhattacharya, and his mother, Rama Bhattacharya, and as a child performed in respected festivals throughout India. In 1987 he was selected as a scholar by the Sangeet Research Academy, studying with Pt. Arun Bhaduri. He eventually became the “Ganda Bandh Shagrid” of the late Pt. K.G. Ginde and also trained later under the guidance of Pt. Sunil Bose
Koushik is a regular artist of All India Radio & Television and an empanelled artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations under the Ministry of External Affairs. He is attached as a guru of Indian Classical Vocal in Gyan Bani FM (105.4 MHZ) on the “Sur Sabha” radio program airing live on Wednesday evenings.
Koushik has performed throughout India for many years at acclaimed music conferences including the ITC Sangeet Sammelan, the All India Music Conference in New Delhi, the Conference of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the Dover Lane Music Conference, Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra, West Bengal State Music Academy and Dakshini Music Conference. He has also toured extensively worldwide participating in prestigious music events in the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Dubai and Bangladesh.He received the Surmani award from Sursinger Samsad in Mumbai, and the Vocational Award 2008 from the Rotary Club of Salt Lake City, Kolkata.
Along with his busy concert and touring schedule, Koushik also serves as a dedicated teacher of Indian Classical Vocal in “The Doverlane Music Academy” and “Future Hope School” of Kolkata and as examiner for Rabindra Bharati University. Koushik is also the director of his own music school, “Manindra Sangeet Tirtha”, which was established by his father in 1970 (in memory of his Grand Father who was a famous Dhrupad Singer), and provides traditional Indian Classical music education.
Sandip Ghosh
Sandip Ghosh is a talented, young, upcoming musician of the present generation. He has successfully evolved as a promising Tabla player of the Farukhabad Gharana. He is equally adept as a solo musician as well as an accompanist with vocal, instrumental and dance performances. Sandip is known for his great sense of creativity as well as intelligent and sensible accompaniment.
Born in 1982, in a music loving family of Kolkata, he was initiated into the art of Tabla by his supportive parents in his early childhood. He started to learn Tabla under the tutelage of Pt. Gobindo Bose and continued for nine years. Sandip, then came in touch of Pt. Anindo Chatterjee where he started taking talim and gradually emerged as a specialised Tabla player of the superb style of "Farukhabad" gharana. Under the able guidance of Pt. Anindo Chatterjee, he has gained extensive talim of all other gharanas as well. He is also taking Vocal accompaniment Talim from Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty.
Sandip Ghosh is a 1st class 1st in "M.A." in Music from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
Sandip has accompanied several globally distinguished artistes like Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty, Pt. Hari Prasad Chourasia, Ustad Aashish Khan, Pt. Kushal Das, Pt. Ramesh Mishra, Pt. Tejendra Narayan Majumder, Pt. Nayan Ghosh, Shri Prattyush Banerjee, Pt. ParthoSarathy, Pt. Debojyoti Bose, Vid. Kaushiki Chakraborty, Shri Partha Sarathi Desikan, Shri Ranajit Sengupta, Shri Purbayan Chatterjee, Smt. Shirin Sengupta, Shri Partha Bose, Shri Sugato Nag, Shri Snehashish Mozumder, Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, Ud. Shahid Parvez, Ud. Shujaat Khan,Vid. Dr. M. Balamuralikrish and the likes.
He has been successfully featured in several significant and prestigious concerts like Doverlane Music Conference, Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra, ITC SRA Sangeet Sammelan, Sawai Gandharva Sangeet Mahotsav, Shankarlal Music Festival, Bal Gandharv Sangeet Samaroh, Saptak Music Festival, Sangeet Shankar Darbar Music Festival, Ganga Mahotsav etc.
Sandip Ghosh has performed all over the globe in USA, Canada, UK, UAE, Germany, Switzerland, Italy France, Belgium, Holland, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Georgia, Oman, Kuwait, Denmark and so on . He is an empanelled artist of ICCR and SPICMACAY.
He has successfully collaborated with Music Bands like 'Kyabaat', Hamburg, ‘Ragas & Blossoms’, Kolkata, ‘String Struck’, Mumbai, ‘Asa, The Coral of Life’, Munich , ‘Anouraag’, Switzerland, ‘You & Me’, Germany, ‘ K3’, Austria 'Big-Band Orchestra' of 'Hamburg Music University'.
Sandip Ghosh has won many titles and awards. To mention a few are President's Award, "Gold Medal" in South Asian Universities Festival twice, “ Academy Puroskar ”, Rajya Sangeet Academy, National Scholarship from Govt. of India, Dover Lane Music Conference Award.
Sandip also got the rare and precious opportunity to play several duets with his legendary guru, the great tabla maestro Pt. Anindo Chatterjee.