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The Sitar Speaks
Glimpses of the Senia Sahajanpur Gharana
Artistes
As evening settles and light turns to shadow, the sitar begins to speak.
Rooted in the deep tradition of the Senia Sahajanpur Gharana, this recital is more than a performance. It is a quiet conversation between raga and time, between silence and resonance. With the slow unfolding of alaap, the steady pulse of jor, and the rhythmic journeys through shifting taals, the music invites you into an intimate space where sound becomes memory.
In this space, discipline meets improvisation, stillness meets movement, and the night seems to hum with every note.
Ancient. Alive. Stringing melodies that echo across centuries.
Supported by:
Artistes
Supratik Sengupta
Supratik Sengupta was born in 1981 to a family of musicians in Kolkata. He got his early training from his father Sri Kuber Sengupta. He began his formal training under Sri Biswanath Das and Pandit Debaprasad Chakraborty. After that he was under the guidance of Sangeetacharya Late Ajoy Sinha Roy and Dr. Pradeep Chakraborty for a long time.
Supratik joined ITC Sangeet Research Academy in the year 2001 as a scholar under the tutelage of Padmabhushan Pandit Buddhadeb Das Gupta and Partha Pratim Chatterjee, the Guru of the instrumental division of the Academy. He is taking lessons of tal-laya from Sri Surojit Sengupta (a senior disciple of Padmavibhushan Pandit Kishen Maharaj).
He is an empanelled artist of ICCR, New Delhi and also an ‘A’ Grade Artist of All India Radio & Doordarshan.
Partha Mukherjee
Partha Mukherjee is one of the most versatile tabla players in today’s younger generation. A dazzling performer and an incessant innovator, Partha has carved a niche for himself in the world of percussion. He now has over 20 years of performing experience both as an accomplished soloist and accompanist for over a thousand performances in classical vocal, instrument and dance performances.
Partha started learning tabla at the early age of six under the tutelage of Pandit Kishore Banerjee, a senior disciple of the renowned classical musician Pandit Gyan Prakash Ghosh. Rapidly grasping the intricacies of the Delhi, Farukhabad and Lucknow Gharanas, Partha started specializing in the Farukhabad Gharana style under stalwart artist Pandit Shubhankar Banerjee.
