Artist Archive
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Mysore Manjunath
Dr. Mysore Manjunath is a renowned violinist from India. He is the son and disciple of Prof. S Mahadevappa. Dr. Manjunath has extensively toured in India and abroad. He was the first Indian violinist to be invited to perform at the prestigious International Violin Conference held in Sandiego, and Persian Academy in The Islamic Republic of Iran. He is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Academy Award and Rajyothsava Award, amongst numerous others.
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N Rajam
Dr. N Rajam is considered to be one of the finest violin artists in the field of classical music. She mastered the Carnatic style at a very young age and later moved on to practice the Hindustani style of music.
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Nilesh Ranadive
Nilesh Ranadive is a tabla artist from India. He trained under the guidance of Pandit Suresh Talwalkar and has been featured at prestigious shows in India and abroad. Ranadive’s performances are marked by his versatility. He has performed with the fusion band, ‘New Life’, and has also with Rahul Sharma, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Pandit Ajay Pohankar, Begum Parveen Sultana, Aarti Ankalikar and Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar, amongst others.
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Nishit Dey
Born in 1991, Nisit Dey started receiving tabla lessons from his father and uncle from a very early age. He eventually began taking vocal training from his uncle, Ashit Dey, and later trained to play the sitar from Guru Sheikh Sattar Mohammed till his passing in 2009. Since then, Nisit has been trained in Imdadkhani Gharana and continues his classical music training under Ashim Chowdhury.
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Nritya Chirantan
Nritya Chirantan is a dance recital based on Tagore music, weaved together with three of Bangladesh’s classical dance forms – Manipuri, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. Conceptualised and organised by Sharmila Banerjee, and directed and choreographed by Shibly Mohammad, Bimbavati Devi, and Kirti Ramgopal; the dance will be performed by Amit Chowdhury, Sweety Das, Snata Shahrin, Sudeshna Swayamprabha, Mehraj Haque Tushar and Zuairiyah Mouli. Nritya Chirantan explores the mythical practices of dance, and the body expressing the creation and destruction of the universe.
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Omkar Dadarkar
Born in Mumbai on 30th July 1977, Omkar received his initial guidance from his aunt, the late noted classical vocalist Manik Verma and thereafter from Ram Deshpande. After being awarded the CCRT scholarship (Delhi) for classical music, he was groomed by Pandit Yashwantbua Joshi. Dadakar’s numerous awards include the prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2010, the Aditya Vikram Birla Puraskar in 2008, and the ‘Shanmukhananda Hall-Mumbai-Sangeet Shiromani’ award in 2007. Omkar has been working with ITC SRA as a Musician Tutor from 2010 onwards.
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Padma Talwalkar
Padma Talwalkar was born in Mumbai, India. She received training in Khyal gayaki in three main gharanas, namely Gwalior, Kirana and Jaipur. The artist is married to tabla maestro Pt. Suresh Talwalkar. Their son Satyajit Talwalkar and daughter Savani Talwalkar are also tabla players. Vidushi Padma Talwalkar received a five year scholarship from the Bhulabhai Memorial Trust, a two-year fellowship from the National Center for Performing Arts, the Pandit Jasraj Gaurav Puraskar in 2004, the Vatsalabai Bhimsen Joshi award in 2009 and the Rajhans Pratishthan Puraskar in 2010.
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Parimal Chakrabarty
Parimal Chakrabarty is a tabla artist from India. He trained under the guidance of his father Nikhil Chandra Chakrabarty, Pandit Ram Dhrubey, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, and Pandit Gyan Prakash Ghosh. Chakrabarty has taken part in prestigious shows in India and abroad. He is presently a Guest Faculty at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
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Parveen Sultana
born 10 July 1950 is an Assamese Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana. She is among the foremost classical vocalists in India and is known as Queen of Classical Vocal. She was conferred the Padmashri in 1976, at the age of 25. She was born at Daccapatty in Nagaon city, Assam, India to Ikramul Mazid and Maroofa Begum. She went to Mission School . Her father was her first guru and was very strict with her. She also received early training from her grandfather Mohammed Najeef Khan, a pathan. She later went to Kolkata to learn music under the guidance of late Pandit Chinmoy Lahiri and from 1973, she became a disciple of Ustad Dilshad Khan of the Patiala Gharana. Parveen Sultana gave her first stage performance in 1962 when she was only 12 and has been recording music since 1965. Sultana has sung for movies like Gadar, Kudrat, Do Boond Pani, and Pakeezah. Recently, she sang the theme song of Vikram Bhatt’s latest opus 1920. She also sang Humein Tumse Pyaar Kitna - Kudrat 1981. Parveen Sultana has recorded for HMV, Polydor, Music India, Bharat Records, Auvidis, Magnasound, Sonodisc, Amigo. Parveen Sultana performing in Arghya 2011 She is married to Ustad Dilshad Khan. They have a daughter - Shadaab Sultana.
