Friday, October 10, 2008


Sri. Sandip Ghosh
Sandip Ghosh, a talented young upcoming tabla player, was born in 1982 in music lovers family of Kolkata.He was initiated in Tabla by his supportive parents in the early childhood. He started his career as student under the tutelage of Pt.Gobindo Bose and continued for nine years.
Sandip then came in touch of Pt.Anindo Chatterjee and started taking talim under the keen supervision of him.
He has specialised himself in the superb style of "Farukhabad" gharana and also gained extensive talim of all other gharanas under the able guidance of Pt.Anindo Chatterjee."Sweet Melodious Sound" and "Taiyari" are his other remarkable qualities.
Sandip is a 1st class 1st in "M.A." in "Music" from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
He is a graded artist of "All India Radio" & "Doordarshan".
He is such kind of player who is good in "Solo" and very reliable "Accompanist" for "Instruments”,” Vocal" & "Dance.
He has performed all over the world at his own abilities. He accompanied several great artists and his enchanting accompaniment gives them a soothing relief.
Ustad Aashish Khan, Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pt. Ramesh Mishra, Pt. Amiya Ranjan Banerjee, Pt. Nihar Ranjan Banerjee, Pt. Sohanlal Sharma, Shri Ranajit Sengupta, Pt. Debojyoti Bose(Tony), Shri Purbayan Chatterjee, Smt. Shirin Sengupta, Smt. Koushiki Charaborty Desikan, Shri Snehashish Mozumder, Shri Sugato Nag, Shri Partha Bose, Pt. Padmakar Kulkarni ............... are few among the list.
Sandip has been awarded many times. President's Award, Academy Puroskar, Rajya Sangeet Academy, Dover Lane Music Conference are few of them. He is a "National Scholar" and twice "Gold Medallist" in "South Asian Universities Festival".
Moreover, he got the rare and precious opportunity to play several duets with his legendary guru, the great tabla maestro Pt.Anindo Chatterjee. He also works successfully with "Kyabaat" "Anouraag" & "You & Me" band in Europe and with "Big-Band Orchestra" of "Hamburg Music University".

Sri. Kumar Mardur
Hailing from rich traditions of Dharwad, young Kumar Mardur has had his training from his father Pandit Somanath Mardur, a renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist of Kirana Gharana. Pandit Somanath Mardur is the senior disciple of Padmabhushan Dr. Basavaraj Rajguru. Under the able guidance of his father, Kumar has shown the qualities of becoming a promising young artist. Presently Kumar has also been learning from Dr. Pandit. Firoz Dasturji, a great Maestro of Kirana Gharana and the Seniormost Disciple of Late SAWAI GANDHARVA
Endowed with a melodious voice, he is known for pure and aesthetic presentation of ragas, crystal clear taan patterns and command over laya.
Kumar has completed Masters Degree in Music from Karnatak University, Dharwad.
He is performing all over the country enthralling audiences. He is an approved artist through Akashwani and Doordarshan and is performing through them regularly. Many senior artists have blessed him with a bright and successful career in the field of music. He has decided to pursue music as his career and with talent a glorious future lies ahead.

Sri. Omkarnath Hawaldar
Inheritor of finest nuances of the Kirana Gharana style of Hindustani vocal music of India. Omkarnath Havaldar is blessed with a Father like Dr. Nagaraj Rao Havaldar, a well-known Bangalore based Hindustani vocalist as his mentor, and His mother Smt. Sudhamayi Havaldar is a graduate of fine arts from Mysore University. And his maternal grandfather, K. Raghavendra Rao is a renowned music critic.
Omkarnath had occasion to learn from Pt. Madhav Gudi, the disciple of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi Doyen of Kirana Gharana, Pt. Panchakshari Swami Mattigatti who is the deciple of Late Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur of Atrauli Jaipur Gharana, who has taught him Rare Ragas & compositions of Jaipur Gharana. Omkarnath is also receiving training in Dhrupad from Pt. Indhudhar Nirody and receiving advance Taaleem by Father and Guruji Dr. Nagaraj Rao Havaldar.
Omkarnath is Graduate in Psychology (from National College Jayanagar) and this has helped him to search out the emotional aspects of his Gharanas & blend them with the technical skills of his natural vocalism. He is now pursuing Masters Degree in History from Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Omkarnath is a recipient of Kishora Pratibha Puraskar Instituted by Kannada & Culture Government of Karanataka (2000) and National Award winner for Hindustani Khayal Singing conducted by All India Radio (2003). Omkarnath has perfomed on many prestigious platforms like " Sankat Mochan Sangeeth Samaroh " Varanasi and Mysore Darbar Hall Concert for Dussera celebration & Hampi Utsav...
Omkarnath has also traveled to the United States with Dr. Havaldar & has performed in World Kannada Conference (AKKA) 2006 and in many other prestigious Universities like Notre dame University, Madison University, Alverno College of Music, Milwaukee University, Chicago centre of Music, India Music Society - Milwaukee, New York Music centre - Queens & has travelled extensively all over the US for concerts.
He is also on the Elite panel of Artist of Department of Kannada & Culture Govt. of Karnataka since 2000 and an approved Graded artist for All India Radio and Doordarshan, the National TV channel of India.
Omkarnath is also a good Ghazal Singer that demands skills in both music & the lyrics. This he has learnt from the Bangalore based Baluchi Hari Kishan Pahuwa who is a Golden Mine of Ghazals.

Sri. Koushik Aital
Koushik is a young promising artist from Karnataka. He is a disciple of a renowned artist Pt.Parmeshwar Hegde from the year 2000. He has achieved many awards and successfully toured across the country. He did his Initial training under Shri. Humayun Haralapur for a period of 5 years.
Koushik has won many scholarships. Some of the noted ones are the Scholarship for Young Artistes by the Government of India in the year 2006. He was awarded first place in the ‘AIR National Level Hindustani Vocal Competition’, in the year 2006. He has received the ‘Promising Artiste Award’ from the ITC SRA in the year 2006
He has been performing at concerts, since the last 3 years, for organisations such as Rajguru Smriti, Shruti, Samvad, Ananya, Department of Kannada and Culture ( Karnataka State) at various locations such as Shimoga, Banvasi, Haveri, Mysore, Gulbarga, Dharwad, Honnavar, Mangalore, Bhopal etc.
He has also performed for the ITC-SRA at the NCPA Mumbai in January, 2006 and Performed at the Bharatiya Sangeet Vidyalaya, at the Malhaar Utstav in June, 2008, Concert at the Devnandan Ubhaykar Yuva Sangeet Utsav, August 2008, Mallikarjun Mansur Pratisthan , Dharwad on the 14th of September, 2008.
He has participated in the ‘Raag Anuraag’ concert, organized by the Parameshwar Hegde Academy and has recorded many albums in light classical Music. He is a regular performer on AIR as a ‘B’ Grade artiste.

Kum. Meghana Kulkarni
Born in 1980 into a music loving family, Meghana began learning Hindustani vocal music from her mother at the early age of eight. She then went on to learn from acclaimed vocalists such as Pandit Parmeshwar Hegde and Pandit M. Venkatesh Kumar for over 5 years. During this time, she also completed her Bachelors degree in music from Karnataka Music College at Dharwad securing a gold medal in its pursuit. Currently, she is learning from Smt. Arati Ankalikar Tikekar and has been able to find a fine blend, which is an aesthetic mix of the gayaki of her gurus. A distinction holding Masters graduate from The Centre for Performing Arts, University of Pune, Meghana shows promise to carve an individual niche for herself while bearing the stamp of tradition.


Smt. Gayatri Joshi
A promising vocalist of the young generation, Gayatri Joshi is the singer to watch in the forth-coming years. Gayatri was born in an artiste’s family. She was initiated in to the art of singing by her father sri. Shankar Vairagkar, an accomplished vocalist, a disciple of Pt.Padmakar Kulkarni.She has received advanced training from smt. Arati Ankalikar Tikekar of the Agra Jaipur Gharana.Formally she holds a ‘Sangeet Alankar’degree from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya.She has presented her art at several prestigious platforms and has won a number of awards during her musical career.

Sri. Tanmay Deochake
Tanmay is a young promising Harmonium Player of the Country. Tanmay’s talent and vibrant ability of understanding Classical Music is true out come of Guru-Shishya Parampara.He highlighted his ability and essence of Music merely at very young age of 4 years, where he tuned himself with his Grandfather Late Sri.Gopal rao Deochake.Initially he learnt under Sri Abhay Deochake and Sri Prakash Shinde from Ahmed nagar. He is taking advance training under Pt.Pramod Marathe in Pune.He is a student From Lalit Kala Kendra and Gandharva Maha Vidyalaya.He has won may scholarships and awards and given excellent accompaniment to renowned artists from our country.