Abhishek Adhikary is one of the brilliant Sitarists of the present generation, belonging to the Senee Maihar Gharana. His performance reflects the traditional Dhrupadang Beenkar baaz and the purity of the Ragas. His soulful Alap and Vistar and the heart touching Meends create an aesthetic appeal among the listeners. Though Abhishek mainly plays the Tantrakari ang but he assimilates the Gayaki ang too in his performance. His style of playing reflects spiritualism with dexterity. He is a wonderful composer and arranger too.
Contact Now| He has shared his performances with many renowned gems of Indian Classical Music in same stages. Like – Pandit Hari Prasad Chourasia, Ustad Ghulam Mushtafa Khan, Ustad Maskoor Ali Khan, Vidhushi Girija Devi, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, Pandit Deepak Chaudhury, Pandit Anindya Bandopadhyay, Pandit Kumar Bose, Pandit Samar Saha, Sri Arup Chatterjee, Sri Shubhankar Banerjee etc etc … Groomed in the atmosphere of music from the very childhood, Sri Abhishek Adhikary took to music instinctively. His musical lineage starts from the great musician Pandit Haricharandas Swami of Varanasi.This great Beenkar and Sitar player is thus,the torch-bearer of their gharana. "Since pre-partition days, sitar playing has been popular in Bangladesh. Haricharan Das is the founder of the Dhaka sitar gharana. He came into prominence as a musician in the early part of the 19th century and was the first to introduce solo sitar performances in Bengal. His great-grandson, Bhagwan Das, was his family's best sitarist. There were other well-known sitar players as well. At Brahmanbaria, several of Ustad Alauddin Khan's relatives earned fame as sitar players, among them, Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, Ustad abed hossain khan and Ustad Belayet Husain Khan..........." ( http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/I_0076.HTM ) The eminent Surbahar and Sitar player ( http://books.google.co.in/books?id=4nPHTCS8vfUC&pg=PA54-IA3&lpg=PA54-IA3&dq=bhagawan+chandra+das+sitar&source=bl&ots=lJfDzY-bdx&sig=F5flsdRY_IvnDu1xkuUw6sQpCWw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rzSjUNvfGsamrAfTqYHYCQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=bhagawan%20chandra%20das%20sitar&f=false) ( http://www.pannalalghosh.com/profile_pannalalghosh.html ) Acharya Bhagawandas Sitari, who was the State Musician of the Dhaka Nawab Estate, is one of the worthy decendants of Haricharandas Swami and an ancestor of Abhishek. Abhishek’s grandfather Late Pandit Manmohan Das Adhikary, who spent his last days in Kolkata after partition, devoted his entire life in propagating music. Both the parents of Abhishek, Sangeetacharya Nandalal Adhikary and Smt.Rakhi Adhikary, vocalists of repute, are too bearing the same torch of their clan. Initially Abhishek started his sitar lessons from Late Sri Sukumar Chandra. Thereafter,he was also fortunate to have his talim in sitar from Late Pandit Deepak Choudhury. ( Both are the foremost disciples of Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar ). Thus, Abhishek belongs to the Senia- Maihar gharana. |
