This program will feature Kuntala Roy on Hansaveena with Aditya Phatak on tabla.

Kuntala Ray
Ms. Kuntala Ray is hails from a family of musicians and inherited musical talent from her mother, Late Maya Maitra. She started her carrier in music in guitar under Sri Uttam Chakrabarty, a renowned Guitar player of Bengal. Her passion for Guitar and her rendering of light music on Hawaiian slide Guitar fetched her fame amongst music lovers. She started learning classical guitar from Pt. Barun Kumar Pal. Subsequently she became the disciple of Pt Soumitra Lahiri, an eminent sitarist of India, from the isnupur Gharana. She also received special talim from the eminent tabla player Pt. Subhankar Banerji.

A proficient teacher of mathematics, Kuntala had attended several Guru Sishya Parampara workshops of Indian Classical Music at Kolkata and Delhi. Taking the responsibility of exposing her true talim, Kuntala plays in the most traditional form of rendering a Raga. Her aesthetic way of unfolding a Raga is very much reflected on the listener’s mind because of her control on the instrument and sound knowledge of Ragas. As her fame has spread, she has been playing to audiences in various concerts in India and abroad that have been well acclaimed.

Some of her performances:

Salt Lake Cultural Association, Kolkata, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi, India International Center, Delhi, Darbur Music Circle, Kolkata, Sangeet Priya Samsad, Kolkata, Concerts and Workshops at University of North Carolina, USA, Chhandayan, New York, USA, Hindu Cultural Center of Tennessee, Nashville, USA, International Center for Culture, Oslo, Norway.

Aditya Phatak is a very young student of Indian music, with special aptitude in Tabla. He started playing tabla at the age of two, even before he was tall enough to reach the drums. He was initially inspired by his grandfather Deepak Phatak and guided by his uncle Shivraj Phatak. Since February of 2008, when he was four years old, he came under the loving mentorship of Pt. Samir Chatterjee in the formal Guru-Shishya (master-disciple) relationship. Seven years into his talim (grooming), through utmost sincerity and diligence, Aditya qualified to make his entry into the field of performance. His music is certainly worth listening to. He is also studying Hindustani Classical vocal music with Smt. Rucha Jambhekar.

Music of Hansaveena

Music of Hansaveena