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Sougata Roy Chowdhury is considered to be among the most talented sarod players of his generation. Born in a Bengali artistic family, Sougata grew up in Shantiniketan.
His father, Prof. Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, is an eminent sculptor and also a great music connoisseur, with one of the most precious collections of Indian classical music in India today. Sougata’s mother, Smt. Ajanta Roy Chowdhury, is an Indian classical vocalist of the Agra Gharana since her young age. Sougata started to learn sarod at the age of 10 with Ustad Dyanesh Khan, son of the great Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. His Guru (teacher) taught him the technique of sarod, discipline in music, and compositions in different Ragas, for about 9 years, until his guru’s untimely sudden death at age 45.
Sougata has always been a devotee of the sarod Maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and admired him as a ‘God of knowledge’, because of the way the late Ustad opened the spiritual way of his musical practice.
Suman Sarkar, comes from a family where music has been an integral part of his family tradition. His father Late Sri Santosh Kumar Sarkar, himself was a vocalist as well as a music teacher, composer and performer.
He first introduced Suman to the discipline of the Tabla. Later Suman went through intensive training under the tutelage of Sri Surhit Chakraborty a direct disciple of Ustad Habibuddin Khan of Ajrara Gharana and Ustad Garni Khan of Delhi Gharana. Suman proved already a promising tabla player, when he first performed, at a function in Calcutta in early 80s. After that, rigorous riyaz and proper guidence from his Guru has helped him to build his professional career as a tabla player. He has accompanied many noted musicians like Ustad Nishat Khan, Prof. Subroto Roy Chowdhury, Dhruba Ghosh, Partha Bose, Lakxmi Shankar and many others.
