Rajrupa Chowdhury
Rajrupa Chowdhury
Sarod
8 Renditions • 2 h 2 m
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PLAYS
Sarod
GHARANA
Shahjahanpur
GURUS
Shri Siddhartha Roychaudhury
Shri Joydeep Ghosh
Ajay Sinha Roy
Prof. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
AWARDS
All India Radio nationwide music competition, first position
Dover Lane Music Competition, first prize
Baba Allauddin Khan Memorial Music Competition, first prize
Sutanati Parishad Music Competition, first prize
Promising Artist Award, ITC Sangeet Research Academy
Senior scholarship, Department of Culture, Government of India
Rajrupa Sen Chowdhury is a sarode player, born in 1982. She began sarode lessons at the age of five and learned the nuances of Indian classical music from teachers of the Ustad Md. Ameer Khan School of Instrumental Music. She was groomed as a musician especially under Shri Siddhartha Roychaudhury, a student of Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra and Ustad Saukat Ali Khan. She also learned with Shri Joydeep Ghosh and, for a while, the late Ajay Sinha Roy, and is currently receiving advanced training in music making and expression from the sitar maestro Prof. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay. Rajrupa has performed at festivals such as the Dover Lane Music Conference and EZCC's Pratibha Utsav in Kolkata, and in 1995 she was the youngest musician at the 15th North American Bengali Conference in New York. She won first position in a nationwide music competition organised by All India Radio (AIR), and first prizes at the Dover Lane Music Competition, the Baba Allauddin Khan Memorial Music Competition and the Sutanati Parishad Music Competition. ITC Sangeet Research Academy gave her its 'Promising Artist Award', and she received a senior scholarship from the Department of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi, for advanced studies in music.