Sankha Chatterjee
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|birth_place = West Bengal, British India
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|death_place = Kolkata, India
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|instrument = Tabla
|genre = Indian classical music
|occupation = Tabla musician
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|website = [http://www.tabla-berlin.com/html/index_english.htm Official site]
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Pandit Sankha Chatterjee (1934 – 11 October 2024) was an Indian tabla player.{{cite book|last1=Freeman|first1=Steve|last2=Freeman|first2=Alan|title=The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoInAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=11 July 2012|date=December 1996|publisher=Audion|page=43|isbn=9780952950608 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090321/jsp/opinion/story_10698292.jsp |title=Wit, Rhythm and Excitement |date=March 21, 2009 |access-date=June 11, 2023 |lang=en |author=Nilaksha Gupta |website=www.telegraphindia.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405190247/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090321/jsp/opinion/story_10698292.jsp |archive-date=2009-04-05}} He studied under three traditional Tabla Gharana in strict Parampara tradition.
Early life
Born into a musical family in Calcutta, India. His father was a doctor and musical enthusiast, exposing him to formal tuition early in life under Ustad Maseet Khan of the Farukhabad Gharana of Tabla. He studied under Ustad Maseet Khan, Sankha subsequently learnt from his son Ustad Keramatulla Khan and later from late tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha Khan of the Punjab Gharana.
Career
Sankha Chatterjee's style is a blend of three leading Gharanas (schools), the Farukkabad, Punjab and Delhi Gharanas. He still performed and taught. He divided his time teaching in Berlin and India as his bases and held workshops across Europe and the United States. In 1984 he taught and performed at the Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati in Venice alongside sitar player Budhaditya Mukherjee.
His leading students are amongst some of the leading virtuosos of the younger generation of tabla players such as Gouri Shankar Karmakar, Subhojyoti Guha, Amit Chatterjee, Mihir Kundu, Hindole Majumdar, Friedemann Zintel and Federico Sanesi.
Personal life and death
His elder daughter [http://www.sangeeta.info/ Vidushi Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay]GIMA nominated, is a leading classical vocalist of the Lucknow, Patiala and Indore Gharana of Indian classical sangeet.
Sankha Chatterjee died after a long illness in Kolkata, on 11 October 2024, at the age of 89.{{cite web |title=My Guruji Tabla Maestro Pandit Sankha Chatterjee ji is no more. |url=https://www.instagram.com/hindolem/p/DA-cxSIxKdW/?next=%2Fbluegodzi%2Ftagged%2F&locale=在线定制塔吉克斯坦TEF证书联系%7B威信%2BTG%2F飞机%3A%40buth2788%7DsjwNH%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3Fѧ%3F%3FƾSwQuO |website=hindolem on Instagram |access-date=28 October 2024 |date=11 October 2024}}{{cite web |title=Eminent Tabla Maestro and Guru Pandit Sankha Chatterjee passed away at the age of 89. |url=https://www.facebook.com/HCMAEOFFICIAL/photos/hcmae_tributes-eminent-tabla-maestro-and-guru-pandit-sankha-chatterjee-passed-aw/931856208968934/?_rdr |website=Hindustani Classical Music And Everything on Facebook |access-date=28 October 2024 |date=11 October 2024}}
References
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External links
- http://www.tabla-berlin.com/
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Category:Hindustani instrumentalists