Partha Pratim Roy
Partha Pratim Roy
Sitar
13 Renditions • 3 h 55 m
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Sitar
GHARANA
Maihar
Partha Pratim Roy is a sitar player of the Maihar school, associated with Baba Alauddin Khan, Pt. Ravi Shankar and Pt. Nikhil Banerjee. Trained from the age of five, he has pursued a double career in economics and music. His talent was recognised by the late Ustad Karamatullah Khan, the late Pt. Jnana Prakash Ghosh, the late Pt. Jamini Ganguly and the late Pt. Gokul Nag, among others. Early highlights included a solo performance before an audience of 1 lakh at the Youth Festival at the Ranji Stadium, Calcutta, in 1978, and a three-hour solo sitar recital at the Max Muller Bhavan, German Consulate, Calcutta, in 1980. He went on to perform at the North Calcutta Music Conference, the Gita Music Conference, the India International Centre, New Delhi, and the Soorya Festival at Trivandrum (2012), among many other venues, and has performed abroad since 1996. Roy formed the Fusion Music Troupe with a view to preserving and propagating traditional Indian culture around the world. Its music is based mainly on sitar, sarod, dhol, khol and tabla, along with various other Indian and western instruments.