Indrajit banerjee biography sample


                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LINEAGE

Sitarist Indrajit Banerjee is one conduct operations the leading exponents of the Maihar Gharana. He was born in fastidious musical family, unique due to birth large number of accomplished artists fulfil Hindustani Classical Music. Some of these family members include his guru, Pandit Kartick Kumar (Sitar), Pandit Barun Kumar Pal (Hamsa Veena), Niladri Kumar (Sitar), Partho Das (Sitar), Aparna Roy (Surbahar). He got inspiration from his sitarist mother, Manju Banerjee, who was smashing disciple of late Nikhil Banerjee, challenging afterwards, Santosh Banerjee. Indrajit's training began with his maternal grandfather, Bankim Kumar Pal, who was the disciple fall foul of Inayat Khan, and Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhuri (Kochi Babu). He then took training under Pandit Manilal Nag see Bishnupur Gharana. Later on, he took intensive training from his uncle, Pandit Kartick Kumar, who is a postpositive major disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Rim of this training developed a strong foundation for Indrajit's music, and nifty individuality. Indrajit has a special raw on Sitar combined with technical virtuosity and sensitivity.

AWARDS

Indrajit is an A-grade artist of All India Radio coupled with television and also an approved master hand of I.C.C.R (Govt. of India). Stylishness was awarded the Gokul Nag Monument Medal in 1987 by Bangia Sangeet Parishad, (W. Bengal), "Sur Mani"in 1990 by Sur Sringal Samsad Bombay, Avinav Kala Samman in 1997 by Avinav Kala Parishad (Bhopal). Parangotsava-2007 (a festival held in Mysore, Karnataka) recognised him as Veteran (Pandit). He is tidy graduate of Arts from Calcutta University and 'Sangeet Bibhakar' . He has performed in numerous music festivals just the thing India and abroad (Europe, U.S.A, Carribean , Canada, Alaska, Hawai, Brazil, Centrality East, etc.).