Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Sitar
18 Renditions • 3 h 56 m
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PLAYS
Sitar
GHARANA
Etawah (Imdadkhani)
GURUS
Radhika Mohan Maitra
Bimalendu Mukherjee
DISCIPLES
Rajrupa Chowdhury
Panchajanya Dey
Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, born on 16 September 1954, is a Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player. He is primarily a disciple of Radhika Mohan Maitra and Bimalendu Mukherjee, and his playing is a synthesis of the Senia-Shahjehanpur, Rampur-Senia and Etawah gharanas. He is Chair Professor (Ustad Allauddin Khan Chair) in the Department of Instrumental Music at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and Director of the S.M. Tagore Centre of Documentation & Research of Languishing & Obsolescent Musical Instruments, created for the ethnological mapping of the world through obsolescent musical instruments, with support from scholars worldwide. He is attached as adviser or expert 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; and Utkal University, Orissa. In October 2005 he visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as George A. Miller Visiting Professor, and the same year the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, as Distinguished India Focus Visitor. He was artist in residence at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2008 and the University of Chicago in 2009, and was invited to present a paper at an international conference at the University of Amsterdam in 2008. His collaborative research includes a project with pianist Yaroslav Senyshyn, a professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has produced 10 CDs and a DVD, and has performed widely in India and across the American, European and African continents.