Sanjoy Bandopadhyay

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Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Prof. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Prof. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Background information
Birth nameSanjoy Bandopadhyay
Also known asSanjoy Banerjee
Born (1954-09-16) 16 September 1954 (age 69)
GenresIndian classical music
Occupation(s)Composer, sitar player, Academician
Websitehttp://www.sanjoybandopadhyay.com/

Sanjoy Bandopadhyay (born 16 September 1954) is a Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player. He is primarily a disciple of Radhika Mohan Maitra and Bimalendu Mukherjee. His performance is a unique synthesis of Senia-Shahjehanpur, Rampur-Senia and Etawah gharana.

Career[edit]

He is Chair Professor (Ustad Allauddin Khan Chair) at the Department of Instrumental Music, of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata India. He is also the Director, S.M. Tagore Centre of Documentation & Research of Languishing & Obsolescent Musical Instruments.[1] 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.[citation needed]

Bandopadhyay visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as George A. Miller Visiting Professor[2](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 [USA] in 2008 and University of Chicago [USA] in 2009 as artist in residence. He was specially invited to present a paper at the International Conference[3] at the University of Amsterdam (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.[citation needed]

He is also involved in a number in collaborative research projects at the national and international levels, including one with pianist Yaroslav Senyshyn, who is attached to the Simon Fraser University, Canada as a Professor.[citation needed]

He has produced 10 CDs and a DVD. He has widely performed in India, American, European and African continents[citation needed].

Labels[edit]

EMI-HMV, India Archive Music [USA]

References[edit]

  1. "S.M. Tagore Centre of Documentation & Research of Languishing & Obsolescent Musical Instruments".
  2. "George A. Miller Visiting Professor".[permanent dead link]
  3. "Conference India and the World: The Performing Arts". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011.

External links[edit]


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