Sandip Chatterjee

Sandip Chatterjee, a disciple of Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya and vocal maestro Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, is a rich and accomplished Santoor player of our time. He has been heralded as the torch bearer of two Gharanas at the same time – Maihar and Patiala.

Sandip was accepted as a pupil by the eminent Santoor player Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya in the year 1980. He is taking taleem of Ragadari and Layakari from vocal maestro Pandit Ajay Chakraborty for the last five years. After a formal talim in pursuit of Proficiency of the highest order in Raga, Taal and laya, Sandip, an honours graduate in commerce from Calcutta university and a budding cost accountant, has been consolidating his knowledge with emotion, dedication and creativity, under the able guidance of his guru.

The musical talent and virtuosity exhibited by Sandip over the years have been noted through his albums which range up to 21 in number. His expertise has also been utilized by renowned music directors like A.R.Rahaman, Jatin Lalit, Gulsan Kumar, Rabindra Jain, Pt.V.Balsara etc.

His ethnic aesthetics had also won him many awards and laurels such as “President of India Award”, “Jadubhatta Award”, “Sangeeth Ratna Award” Abhinaba Kala Sanman” etc.

Subhajyoti Guha

Sri Subhajyoti Guha, a highly talented young tabla player from Kolkata, India, and is one of the NEW GENRE of tabla exponents who are taking this world pleasing North Indian percussion instrument to greater heights in the 21st century.

Subhajyoti's first public performance was in 1992 at PARAMPARA - a prestigious festival of Indian Music, in Berlin, Germany with his Guruji Pandit Sankha Chatterjee, where he enthralled his audience by his solo performance. Since then he has never looked back as a performer and is performing regularly in India and also abroad in USA, Canada and Europe both as a soloist and an accompanist. Subhajyoti has rendered his musical accompaniment to various young and senior leading musicians of India .To name a few Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, Pandit Manilal Nag, Pandit Ram Narayan, Ustad Aashish Khan, Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Ustad Irshad Khan, Vidushi Purnima Chaudhuri, and many others. Through these performances Subhajyoti has won the hearts of his listeners and his talent has also been acknowledgement by maestros like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Along with his music, Subhajyoti has also excelled in academics by obtaining an M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. However, he has infused all his academic education for fulfilling his mission of preaching Indian Classical Music.