Bhawani Shankar Dasgupta

Born in 1961, Bhabanishankar Dasgupta is the elder son and disciple of the eminent Sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, the foremost disciple of Pandit Radhika Mohan Moitra. Bhabani received his preliminary lessons from Sri Anil Roy Chowdhury and subsequently came under the tutelage of his father. He made his debut as a Sarod Player at the age of 22 at “Saurav Music Institution”. Since then, he has participated in many prestigious concerts in West Bengal and Assam. He has also performed in duets with his father : at the Russian Consulate Office in Kolkata in 1985 and at the Bhowanipore Sangeet Sammelan in 1986, to the tabla accompaniment of the legendary maestro Pandit Hirendra Kumar Ganguly, to name a few.

An M.A. from Jadavpur University, Bhabani is an approved artiste of All India Radio and has performed at Doordarshan Kendra and Akash Bangla TV Channel.

Mita Nag

Miss Mita Nag, one of the most dedicated sitarists of the Vishnupur gharana, has her lineage rooted in the tradition of her family. She is the grand daughter of the legendary Gokul Nag of Vishnupur and daughter of Pandit Manilal Nag. Genealogically she is the sixth generation of musicians in her family. Her great grandfathers had sown the seeds of sitar music in the family while their hometown was in Vishnupur, the great Terracota temple town of West Bengal, India.

As a child performer she amazed the audience in Kolkata at the age of ten in her debut appearance in the International Year of the Child, 1979. The same year she received the Junior Talent Search Scholarship of the Govt. of India. Mita is a regular performer as a soloist and in duets with her veteran father in almost all major cities of the country. She has been performing in Europe, England, the USA, Canada and Japan for the last few years earning recognition and praise in every concert that she performs. Mita has performed with a number of veteran Tabla players of Kolkata like Swapan Choudhury, Kumar Bose, Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay, Subhen Chatterjee, Samar Saha and Tanmoy Bose. In 2005, she had the rare privilege to perform in a duet with her father accompanied by the late Pandit Kishen Maharaj, the legendary table maestro of Banaras gharana.

She is the recipient of The Junior Fellowship Award of the Govt. Of India for her research on Vishnupur and has received a number of honours from noted institutions. She has recently founded the Gokul Nag Memorial Foundation in memory of her late Grandfather with the objective of promoting Classical Music and preserving the heritage of Vishnupur. Besides music, Mita has excelled academically, having obtained her Masters and Master of Philosophy in English Literature from the University of Calcutta in 1992 and 1995 respectively.

Sohini Roy Chowdhury

Born in a family of music lovers, Sohini Roy Chowdhury, a young talented classical vocalist started learning Classical Vocal at the age of six from her grandmother, Smt Bokul Sengupta and later from Ustad Sagiruddin Khan, great exponent of Indian classical music. Later on she took lessons from the late Pandit A. Kanan, exponent of Kirana gharana and a legendary name in the field of Hindustani Classical Music, at the prestigious ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata. After the demise of her guru, she has been training under Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, resident guru of ITC SRA, in Khayal. She is also training under Smt Dalia Rahut, erstwhile scholar of ITC SRA in Thumri, Dadra, Tappa and other forms of light classical music. She has also been trained in Nazrul Geeti, Aghomoni, Shyama Sangeet and Raag Pradhan by the late Shri Biman Mukhopadhyay.

Gifted with artistic instinct and a mellifluous voice, Sohini is a successful performer of Khayal in the Kirana gayaki. She has also adapted her voice to render Thumri, Dadra, Kajri, Chaiti, Bhajan and Tappa in the poorab style of Banaras gharana. Her soulful Bhajans, Shyamasangeet, and Raag Pradhan are a treat to the ears.

She is a Sangeet Prabhakar from Prayag Sangeet Samity, Allahabad and Sangeet Visharad from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh. In April 2011, she received the Aparajita Award as Young Achiever in Music for 2010-11.

A Chartered Accountant by profession, she was working with CESC as Senior Manager (Finance) for the last 6 years and owns a C.A. Audit Firm, Sengupta, Dasgupta and Company. She gave up her job to pursue music.

She is also a regular faculty member of Shakhri Begum Memorial Trust founded by Ustad Rashid Khan.

Ashok Mukherjee – Tabla

Brought up in an atmosphere of music and inspired by his parents, Ashoke Mukherjee, is one of the finest tabla players of the present generation. He started his initial training from the Late Pandit Bibhuti Bhushan Bhattacharya of the Lucknow gharana and subsequently, trained under his son, Pandit Swaraj Bhattacharya. Ashoke has proved himself as a soloist and as an accompanist. He has charmed audiences everywhere with his aesthetics and musicality and has received excellent press reviews. He has accompanied a number of reputed musicians in prestigious musical festivals all over the country and has also toured Europe and the Far East, performing at reputed festivals. He has conducted several tabla workshops as well. Ashoke has also dabbled with western jazz, rock and fusion music and is associated with Amit Chowdhury’s “This is Fusion” project.

Indranil Bhaduri - Tabla

Born in 1973, Indranil Bhaduri began learning the tabla when he was 10, from late Guru Satyanarayan Saha of the Benaras gharana. For the last ten years he has been a disciple of Pandit Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay of the Farukhabad gharana.

A Graduate with Honours in Accountancy, he is a “B-High” graded artiste of All India Radio and has accompanied both vocalists and instrumentalists at numerous concerts in several cities in India as well as Muscat, Canada, USA and UK.

Rupashree Bhattacharya – Harmonium

Born into a family of musicians, Rupashree Bhattacharya was initially tutored in vocal music by her father, Shri Durga Charan Bhattacharya. She later learnt from Shri Ashit Bandopadhyay, Smt. Shipra Bose and Shri Sanjoy Chakrabarty. In 1996 she became a scholar of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy under the tutelage of Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. Noticing her innate talent in playing the harmonium, her guru gradually guided her through the intricacies and exacting standards of accompaniment. Rupashree, a proficient vocalist herself, quickly imbibed his teaching and has been able to attain the perfection that Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty had instilled in her. As an ITC SRA scholar, she received dhrupad and dhamar training from Pandit Falguni Mitra, Guru-Prefect, ITC SRA. She has matured into a sensitive and unobtrusive accompanist. A B-High graded artist of All India Radio, she has been a faculty member of ITC Sangeet Research Academy, since 2004.