Dr-Murchana Adhikary Barthakur
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Dr. Murchana Adhikary Barthakur is a highly accomplished Sitar player belonging to the Senia Jaipur and Lucknow-Shahjahanpur gharana of Sitar playing. Murchana’s performance, as a result of years of learning, reflects a very dignified, graceful, virtuosic and an aesthetic presentation with a unique musical repertoire. An M.A. and a Ph.D. in Instrumental Music, Murchana has worked as a Sitar Faculty at The Calcutta School of Music from 2011 to 2015 and at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music from 2015 to 2019. She had received the title 'Surmani' from the Sur Singar Samsad of Mumbai. Dr. Murchana has been teaching regularly and has performed in many prestigious national and international platforms. Initially Murchana had the fortune of receiving intense talim in Sitar from her mother and guru Smt. Nilima Barthakur, who was a disciple of Ustad Ilayas Khan of Lucknow Shahjahanpur gharana and Pandit Debu Chaudhuri, of Senia Jaipur gharana. Since last fifteen years, Murchana is having the great fortune to receive rigorous talim from Padmabhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhuri. She also had the fortune to have talim on the intricacies of Senia Maihar Gharana from Late Pandit Deepak Choudhury of Kolkata.
Dr-Murchana Adhikary Barthakur
Dr-Murchana Adhikary Barthakur
Dr. Murchana Adhikary Barthakur is a highly accomplished Sitar player belonging to the Senia Jaipur and Lucknow-Shahjahanpur gharana of Sitar playing. Murchana’s performance, as a result of years of learning, reflects a very dignified, graceful, virtuosic and an aesthetic presentation with a unique musical repertoire. An M.A. and a Ph.D. in Instrumental Music, Murchana has worked as a Sitar Faculty at The Calcutta School of Music from 2011 to 2015 and at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music from 2015 to 2019. She had received the title 'Surmani' from the Sur Singar Samsad of Mumbai. Dr. Murchana has been teaching regularly and has performed in many prestigious national and international platforms. Initially Murchana had the fortune of receiving intense talim in Sitar from her mother and guru Smt. Nilima Barthakur, who was a disciple of Ustad Ilayas Khan of Lucknow Shahjahanpur gharana and Pandit Debu Chaudhuri, of Senia Jaipur gharana. Since last fifteen years, Murchana is having the great fortune to receive rigorous talim from Padmabhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhuri. She also had the fortune to have talim on the intricacies of Senia Maihar Gharana from Late Pandit Deepak Choudhury of Kolkata.
