| Born into a musical family
DEBOJYOTI shown an inclination, love & joy towards music from his
early childhood. As time passed by the joy turned into passion for the
music. He started learning VOCAL classical at the tender age of five
under the tutulege of his mother Smt. LEENA GUPTA. Simultaneously he was
initiated into TABLA by his parents, which gave him a firm foundation
of the SWARA & LAYA aspects before groomed into the art of playing
SITAR.
He received his initial training in SITAR
from respected RAMAKANTA SINGHJI at SILCHAR. He was extremely fortunate
when in one of his concert in the year 1992 the renowned personality of
our country & internationally famed SAROD player PT. BUDDHADEV
DASGUPTA happened to be present & on hearing him playing the SITAR
Panditji was so impressed that he at once decided to make DEBOJYOTI his
disciple & for eight years he gained talim from him. Once again he
was very much fortunate to be noticed by INDIA`S one of the best ever
& world famous SITAR maestro USTAD SHAHID PARVEZ KHAN of famous
ETAWAH gharana & Ustadji too noticed tremendous talent in DEBOJYOTI
& accepted him as his disciple in the year 2000 & since
DEBOJYOTI is gaining talim under Ustadjis guidance.
DEBOJYOTI was awarded TRIBANK DAZI JOSHI PUROSHKAR from AKHIL
BHARATIYA GANDHARVA MAHAVIDYALA MANDAL, MUMBAI for standing 1st in the
Visharad Purna examination in the year 1995. He also received NATIONAL
SCHOLARSHIP in music from HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, GOVT OF INDIA IN
THE YEAR 1995 &1996.HE He has traveled extensively throughout INDIA
& has given lot of solo performances at various prestigious music
conferences like Pt. Harihar Shukla Sangeet Samaroh Kolkata, Pt Radhika
Mohan Mitra Sangeet Sammelan, Kolkata, Bhab Rang music festival
Bhavnagar, Sangeet Sankalpa music festival at Mumbai, Rajkot, Gandharva
Mahavidyalaya Sangeet Samaroh Miraj, Sangeet Bharati music conference,
Assam & so on.
A A graded artist of ALL INDIA
RADIO, DEBOJYOTI also has two CD's to his credit.
Speciality of his playing SITAR derived from years of hard work,
thoughtful creative analysis, dedication and rigorous riyaz. It is a
style which combines tantrakari and khayal gayki aang & translate it
into the string of SITAR with colourful tones which captures the minds
of the listeners from very start to the end.
LInk:
http://www.aiicaa.org/cat_ind_clas_instr/debojyoti_gupta/debogup_new_profile.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiGuNOXltNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJak7u3W0vg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3b-sdLpKA |
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