Sanjoy Bandopadhyay: Widening
Music
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Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Chair-Professor
[Ustd. Allauddin Khan Chair], at the Rabindra Bharati University [Kolkata/India]
is one of the foremost sitar players of the current generation. Prof.
Bandopadhyay has had the rare opportunity to learn under the doyen of many
leading schools of instrumental music like, Senia-Shahjehanpur, Imdadkhani
gharana, Rampur Senia gharana that ultimately helped him to develop a wide
vision and as a result he could have the required inspirations for a
distinctive style. His exceptional fluidity in raga elaboration, musical
applications of simple and intricate laya designs in combination with
skillful handling of the instrument gives the listeners a remarkable musical
experience. He loves both popular and rare raga-s and use different tala-s
for desired platforms for different desired musical expressions. Training in music He has his general training in music under his father Pt. Peeyush Prasanna Bandopadhyay (a disciple of Late Pt. Jitendra Mohan Sengupta and Pt. Ravi Shankar) since he was 6 years old. He had rigorous training under the Late Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra, the doyen of Senia-Shahjehanpore school of instrumental music, for 18 years.
Guru: Pt.
Radhika Mohan Maitra Sanjoy had highly intensive and advanced training in music making from Pt. Bimalendu Mukherjee, the famous guru.
With Guru Pt.
Bimalendu Mukherjee He also had training from Pt. Manas
Chakraborty, Late Pt. Ajay Sinha Roy and Dr. M.R. Gautam. |
2005 ·
There was a winning sitar performance at the Musee Guimet, Paris on 28 January
2005. The auditorium over flooded with music- hungry audience and they were
enthralled with the sublime music. ·
Prof. Bandopadhyay visited the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as George A. Miller Visiting Professor and
stayed in the campus during the first two weeks of October 2005. He gave a
sitar solo performances and gave four talks in different schools of the
university and gave the CAS/Miller Lecture under India Studies Distinguished
Lectureship. ·
He visited the University of Chicago and did
a workshop and presented a sitar solo performance. ·
He also visited The College of New Jersey
and Drury University, Springfield [MO]. ·
Professor Bandopadhay recorded in New York
for an album of India Archive Music, Inc. ·
He performed sitar solo performances in
Champaign, Chicago, Rochester, Springfield and Moline where Abhijit Banerjee
and Nitin Mitta provided tabla support. 2004 ·
Presentation titled “Music Stars: Promotion and Musical
Values [Presentation focus: Indian Classical Music]" at the 13th
International Conference of the German Musicological Society held in Weimar
16 to 21 September, 2004 received wide appreciations. ·
During this conference visit Prof. Philip Bohlman
[University of Chicago, Chicago, USA], Dr. L.C. Koch [SMB Museum, Berlin,
Germany], Dr. Sebastian Klotz [Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany] and Prof.
Sanjoy Bandopadhyay [Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India] decided to
go for a collaborative music project. ·
Prof. Bandopadhyay visited the Universiy of Alberta
[Edmonton, Canada] under invitataion as Distinguished India-Focus Visitor [24
September to 7 October 2004]. His presentations and workshops received high
acclamations from the faculty members and students of UoA and the invited
guests. A concert was also organized in collaboration with Ragamala Society,
Edmonton. ·
Presentation at the Seminar titled Music and it’s
scientific implications held at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata [February,
2004]. 2003 ·
Started a research project on
‘Standardization Musical Instruments’ iin collaboration with Indian Institute
of Technology [IIT], Kharagpur, India. ·
Presented Concept
Paper at the seminar tiled Musicology vs. Virtuosity by SAA-uk held at
British Council, Kolkata on 31 December 2003. · West Bengal State Music Academy, Kolkata organized his
workshop on ‘Tantrivadya’ on 21 September 2003 |
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Checking
tuning before a concert |
Performances/Presentations Prof. Bandopadhyay has extensively performed in many important music festivals in India and Western countries. These include his brilliant concerts in festivals like, Tansen Samoraha, Gwalior; Swami Haridas Sangeet Sammelan, Mumbai; All India Sadarang Music Conference, Calcutta; Ustd. Ameer Khan Memorial Music Conference, Indore; Sangeet Research Academy, Calcutta; Dakshinee Music Conference, Kolkata; National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai; Tarapada Music Conference, Calcutta; International Center, New Delhi; UP Sangeet Natak Academy, Lucknow; Bangalore Sangeet Sabha, Bangalore; Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal and many others. |
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Presented a paper on ’Career Orientation of Music
Curricula’ at the University of Allahabad on 24 September 2003. ·
Working on initiation of “ UG Diploma in Music Creation and
Management” program at the Rabindra Bharati University. ·
Collaborating with Kashi Vidyapeeth,
Varanasi on developing new programs at the Department of Music. |
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Presentation at the UNESCO
Conference on Interculturisation of Education held in Jyväskylä, Finland, 2003 |
He extensively performed in a
number of countries in Europe that includes Austria, Belgium, Finland,
France, The Netherlands and in North-America in Canada and in the USA. His
first visited under the Maharishi Worldwide Music Conference and performed
extensively in many important cities of the countries of Europe in 1991.
Later he visited Austria and France in 1998 and that was sponsored by the
Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs,
Government of India. In 2001 he was invited by the Sibelius Academy, Kuopio,
Finland to participate in an International seminar titled “Sonorous Texture”
a seminar on Netcasting and Distance Education in Music at Kuhmo, Finland.
This Science and Cultural exchange was a part of the information campaign
“Culture 2001” organized by the Finnish Academy of Sciences. In the same
visit he also gave presentations on Indian Music in the University of
Jyväskylä and Sibelius Academy [Kuopio and Helsinki]. Participated in UNESCO Conference
on Interculturisation of Education at Jyväskylä, Finland in June 2003 in
the Plenary Session. Presentation at the University of Köln, Germany [for
detailed program in Europe please click here] |
It always remained
in active discussion whether a tala with fractional matra should be adapted
in performances. We have seen Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustd. Ali Akbar Khan and other
musicians of the later group taking fractional matra tala-s. The fractions
were limited to 'half matra'. Sanjoy gave the first performance in a tala of
9 1/3 beats [Saptarishi tala] at India International Centre, New Delhi on 10
October, 1995. He played Bageshree with the tabla accompaniment of Abhijit
Banerjee. Please click to listen. Later, he played this tala in other
important music programs including at UP Sangeet Natak Academy. |
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You may download sitar pieces from CNet and
AudioStreet
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Commercial Cassettes/CD-s ·
Cassette/CD by RPG-HMV, India (EMI) STCS
851203 Marwa (alap, gat in Vilambit Jhaptal, madhyalaya Sitarkhani),
Khambavati (alap, drut Ektal), Kafi-Kanara (alap, gats in Vilambit and drut
Teental), Tritiya-se-Bhairavi (alap and gat in madhyalaya Teental) ·
Yogi, King and The Girls CD by MP3, USA: Jog, Husseini-Kanada, Mishra-Kafi and Sohini [no more available] ·
Luscious Evening CD by MP3, USA: Shyam-Kalyan, Rageshree [no more available] ·
Twilight to Midnight CD by MP3, USA: Sanjhgiri, Nand, Nayaki Kanara and Kafi
Thumri [no more available] ·
Moon Moods CD by On Air Communications, Kolkata, India: Jhinjhoti,
Shudh-Kalyan, Dhun. ·
A Tribute to Mozart: Live in Vienna
by On Air Communications, Kolkata, India;
Yaman-Kalyan, Bhairavi |
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Academic placements 1981~1989: Lecturer in Sitar at the
IKS University, Khairagarh [India] 1989~1997: Senior Lecturer at the IKS University, Khairagarh [India] 1997~2001: Reader in Sitar at the IKS University, Khairagarh [India] |
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Rabindra
Bharati University, Jorasanko Campus [House of the Rabindra Nath Tagore] |
May 2001~: Chair-Professor [Ustd.
Allauddin Khan Chair] at the Department of Instrumental Music,
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata [India] |
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Academic activities Prof. Bandopadhyay is actively
involved in number of academic projects and activities [Please
click for details]. Membership in academic/cultural
bodies ·
Executive Council, Rabindra Bharati
University ·
Faculty Council, Rabindra Bharati
University ·
Member, ICE global network [Intercultural Education
Network] ·
Executive Committee of West Bengal
State Academy for Music, Dance and Drama ·
Member of Teachers’ Selection Committees
of different universities in India. ·
Academic Council, Bhatkhande Sangeet
Vidyapeeth [Deemed University], Lucknow |
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Biographical entries His biography has been enlisted by: ·
5000 persons in the World, American
Biographical Institute, USA. ·
Who's Who of Madhya Pradesh. ·
Global Directory of Hindustani and
Carnatic Musicians and dancers, Mumbai. ·
UP Sangeet Natak Academy, Lucknow ·
Indo-Asian Who's Who ·
Asian/American Who's Who (1998, 2001) ·
Reference Asia: Asia’s Who’s Who of Men & Women of
Achievement, 2003, 2004 |
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A few articles on music and other
related topics [These are
in .pdf format] ·
Promoting
Peace Through Music [Read
in Pre-conference to UNESCO Conference 13~14 June 2003] ·
Distance Education in Indian
Music: Feasibility and Prospects |
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