Sanjoy Bandopadhyay (born 16 September 1954) is a

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Hindustani classical

sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in ...

player. He is primarily a disciple of

Radhika Mohan Maitra Radhika Mohan Maitra (1917–1981) was an Indian sarod player and the guru of Narendra Nath Dhar, Kalyan Mukherjea, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Abanindra Maitra, Pranab Kumar Naha, Samarendra Nath Sikdar, Michael Robbins, and many ...

and

Bimalendu Mukherjee Bimalendu Mukherjee (2 January 1925 - 22 January 2010) was an Indian classical sitar player and music teacher. Mukherjee is a learned and eclectic musician – although he was an Imdadkhani sitar student of Enayat Khan, a full list of his teach ...

. His performance is a unique synthesis of Senia-Shahjehanpur, Rampur-Senia and Etawah gharana.

Career

He is ''Chair Professor'' (Ustad Allauddin Khan Chair) at the Department of Instrumental Music, of

Rabindra Bharati University Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. ...

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. He is also the Director, S.M. Tagore Centre of Documentation & Research of Languishing & Obsolescent Musical Instruments. This centre is created for ethnological mapping of the world through obsolescent musical instruments. The project will run with support from scholars from all over the world. Bandopadhyay visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as ''George A. Miller Visiting Professor''(October 2005). In the same year he also visited the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada as ''Distinguished India Focus Visitor''. He visited the

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a public research university in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is one of four campuses that make up the University of Colorado system. As of Fall 2017, UCCS had over 12,400 undergraduate an ...

SAin 2008 and University of Chicago SAin 2009 as

artist in residence Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...

. He was specially invited to present a paper at the International Conference at the

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(2008). Bandopadhyay is attached to a number of universities including the Department of Music, University of Delhi; Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Kashi Hindu Vidyapeeth, Varanasi; Visva Bharati, IKS University, Khairagarh; Utkal University, Orissa and more as adviser/expert. He is also involved in a number in collaborative research projects at the national and international levels, including one with pianist

Yaroslav Senyshyn Yaroslav Senyshyn, also known as Slava, is a Canadian pianist, author, and professor of philosophy, music aesthetics, and moral education at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education. Education Senyshyn was one of two pupils of Antonina Ya ...

, who is attached to the Simon Fraser University, Canada as a Professor. He has produced 10 CDs and a DVD. He has widely performed in India, American, European and African continents.

Labels

EMI-HMV, India Archive Music SA

References

External links

Official web site

Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University

S.M. Tagore Centre of Documentation & Research of Obsolescent and Languishing Musical Instruments, Rabindra Bharati UniversityNYC Radio LIVE! performance
1954 births Living people Etawah gharana Hindustani instrumentalists Indian male musicians Sitar players Rabindra Bharati University faculty Indian male classical musicians {{india-musician-stub