Purbayan Chatterjee

  • country:India
  • style(s):Indian, Instrumental
  • label:Sense World Music
  • artist posted by:Sense World Music

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A music culture as rich as India’s, looks to its younger generation to inject fresh ideas, carrying forward its legacy of tradition. In recent years, India has unearthed a remarkable talent who is already receiving plaudits for his contribution to the field of modern sitar playing. Purbayan Chatterjee was born into a family immersed in India’s classical music traditions. By the time he was four, he had already begun his musical training. His guide and inspiration has been his father, Partha Chatterjee, a disciple of sitar maestro Nikhil Bannerjee. For the last few years Purbayan has taken guidance from the legendary Sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, and at a relatively young age has already established himself as one of the leading lights of the Senia Maihar Gharana, a style of Sitar playing fashioned by Baba Allauddin Khan.