Indrajit Banerjee

A classical Indian concert performance featuring sitar and tabla. Other possibilities include Indian fusion with jazz and other western instruments, as well as vocalists.

Sitarist Indrajit Banerjee is one of the leading exponents of the Maihar Gharana. He was born in a musical family, unique due to the large number of accomplished artists in Hindustani Classical Music. Some of these family members include his guru, Pandit Kartick Kumar (Sitar), Pandit Barun Kumar Pal (Hamsa Veena), Niladri Kumar (Sitar), Partho Das (Sitar), Aparna Roy (Surbahar). He got inspiration from his sitarist mother, Manju Banerjee, who was a disciple of late Nikhil Banerjee, and afterwards, Santosh Banerjee. Indrajit's training began with his maternal grandfather, Bankim Kumar Pal, who was the disciple of Inayat Khan, and Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhuri (Kochi Babu). He then took training under Pandit Manilal Nag of Bishnupur Gharana. Later on, he took intensive training from his uncle, Pandit Kartick Kumar, who is a senior disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. All of this training developed a strong foundation for Indrajit's music, and creative individuality. Indrajit has a special touch on Sitar combined with technical virtuosity and sensitivity.

AWARDS
Indrajit is an A-grade artist of All India Radio and television and also an approved artist of I.C.C.R (Govt. of India).
He was awarded the Gokul Nag Memorial Medal in 1987 by Bangia Sangeet Parishad, (W. Bengal),
"Sur Mani"in 1990 by Sur Sringal Samsad Bombay,
Avinav Kala Samman in 1997 by Avinav Kala Parishad (Bhopal). Parangotsava-2007 (a festival held in Mysore, Karnataka) recognised him as Veteran (Pandit).
Award from SAPNA Annamacharya Project Of North America ( Chicago) By Consul General Of India.2014.
World Music Award Of Excellence in Music By TECH Rino ( NAvada) in 2017 .
He is a graduate of Arts from Calcutta University and 'Sangeet Bibhakar' .
Performances :
Carnegie Hall NYC, Theatre De la Ville Paris , ndrajit has been touring extensively toured in the U.K., Europe, Switzerland , Caribbean Islands, Lebanon, Hawaii, Alaska, Costa Rica, Brazil and Canada for the last 18 years as a solo sitar artist. He has also collaborated with several artists from the West, including STING (Channel V Awards), Yaron Herman, Abbos Kosimov, Goodman Theatre, Fareed Haque, Jeff Coffin, Roy Wooten, etc. He has several solo sitar albums to his credit and also has been featured in many albums. and he has National and International awards from India and the U.S.A. His lessons and instructional DVDs on Sitar are popular throughout the world. Indrajit is also a composer and has arranged music for several albums and award winning documentary films.
Indrajit takes a special interest in teaching, he has some outstanding students and a following across the world in this regard. Presently he teaches in Rhythm and Raag (an Institute for Indian Performing Arts) in Chicago for the spring and fall semesters and summer in Samhati (France) and in Kolkata India. His highly acclaimed instructional DVD's are distributed worldwide.

We need a stage or dedicated area with a carpet to set up. We sit on the floor, so the carpet area should be clean and visible to the audience (not blocked by large objects). We can bring our own stage/carpet set up as required.