Pranām 2024 - Tabla Solo - Padmashree Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri

Pranām 🙏

We had the privilege of hosting Padmashree Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri in our Pranām series this year. The atmosphere was simply electrifying, as we had a truly educated audience—many seats were filled by Swapanji's own disciples. Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is a living legend of the tabla, who initially caught the ears of sarod great Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. By the age of ten, he was accompanying the Ustad to the pioneering Ali Akbar Khan College of Music in California, helping with lesson demonstrations. Hindustani music’s inescapable call beckoned, and he commenced a masters’ degree in it before launching into a stellar career, quickly turning the heads of senior artists and soon becoming the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music’s first director of percussion. He has accompanied several generations of top musicians, energetically committing himself to a performance schedule that would exhaust musicians half his age (once he accompanied eight top artists in 24 hours, including Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Jasraj, and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi). Alongside classical performance he has worked with artists including Stevie Wonder, Larry Coryell, and Kayhan Kalhor. Today, a two time Grammy nominee, it was Swapanji's beloved parents, through their own passion for music, who initiated his formal musical training and inspired him in the field of Tabla, paving the path that would eventually lead him to virtuosity.

Accompanist:
Harmonium - Rajdeep Singh

Event Emcee:
Srijan Deshpande

Videography, Audiography & Editing:
Samyukta Trikkur

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