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  Biography and Musical Experimentations  of Tarun Majumder and Santanu Chakraborty .

Tarun started playing guitar since his age of 16 .He hailed from a musical family . His father was a very good  Sitar player. His brother   plays Indian steel guitar .

But except Tarun none in the family had ever tried to cross over beyond area of  Indian classical music .First 10 years of his musical career he learned and played only western music.Tarun has a deep passion for  Jazz music and he learned also for 6 years from local guru Carlton Kitto and Arthur Gracious .He plays jazz in Western Music section of All India Radio .Jazz helped him   develope a free musical attitude .It shaped his musical statement and thought .

Music of John Maclaughin  has again reshaped his musical inclination so much that  he went into hibernation for another 5 years to learn Indian Classical music. He started to learn Indian classical from Prasanto Bhanjo a disciple of Pundit Ravi Shankar in Shantiniketan . 

Over the years his music  kept changing and growing .So after 25 years of various musical experience he has  developed a style in Spanish guitar .His constant endeavor to experiment with various form of music made him into a versatile musician .

Tarun in all Indian Competition of Classical music of Finance Ministry  twice awarded first  prize where he had to compete with Sitar , violin  and other form of Indian Instrument.

His rendition of Raga Charukeshi was tremendously appreciated by the audience  in a musical concert at Houston Durga Bari recently.

Santanu  is one of the promising Tabla players amongst this generation of Indian music today. He was born on 2nd March, 1971, at Kolkata, West Bengal in a Christian family.He is associated with Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN), Indian Association Of Palliative Care (IAPC), Christian Medical Association Of India (CMAI) as a Consultant in Palliative Care and Cancer Pain Management – (CHC30199 CER – 111, Australia). He has experimented with many Australian musicians during his stay in Australia recently for  the course of Palliative Care from McAuley, Perth, Australia. These experiments gave birth to his  passion for  fusion music.

Santanu started learning Tabla at a very early age under the able guidance of his father Sri Sunil Kumar Chakravartty. After the initial training under him for about 3 years, he started learning Tabla under the guidance of Ustad Sabir Khan, son of the legendary Late Ustad Keramatullah Khan Sahib, Having extensive training and guidance from Ustad Sabir Khan Sahib for about 12 years, Santanu got the opportunity to come in touch with Pandit Deepak Chowdhury, the most prominent disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Since 1991, Santanu is getting Taalims (lessons) from Pandit Shankar Ghosh & Pandit Bikram Ghosh.

Santanu already played Tabla in several concerts in different parts of India as well as in Perth, Australia.  Santanu regularly plays Tabla in All India Radio. He also played Tabla in All India Radio with Western Jazz music. Having mastered the art of playing Electric drums (OCTO PAD), he is also playing octopad and synthesizer regularly in All India Radio.

Santanu has already made a name as one of the most talented ,creative , percussionists of  inodjazz fusion music .His new found style of  Tabla playing with a touch of south Indian rhythm  brought new dimension to the music of Orientalblues.

 

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