Partha Pratim Roy

The official cultural exchange centre of Kerala
Presents
Sitar Recital by
Partha Pratim Roy
on 4th October 2015
Sunday, 6.30 pm
at Bharat Bhavan Thirumuttam
Near Police Ground, Thycaud
Partha Pratim Roy
rained from the tender of 5 years, Partha Pratim Roy is one of the
most accomplished practitioners of Indian classical music today.
Pursuing a double career in economics and music, Roy is a trained
Sitar player, belonging to the Maihar school associated with the
hallowed memory of Baba Alauddin Khan, and such legends as
Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, and others.
An ardent love for music from childhood made him battle against all
odds and on all fronts. Moreover, he did not hail from a family
steeped in the practice of music. However, his family’s friendly nexus
with Pandit Nikhil Banerjee earned him the privilege of learning the
art of Sitar from Pandit Debiprasad Chatterjee, a close successor of
Banerjee.
This was followed up by his receiving lessons in music from the late
Pandit Niharbindu Chowdhury and the late Sangitacharya Ajay Sinha
Roy, both veteran exponents of the Maihar School. He also received
lessons in the intricacies of classical Indian rhythm from Pandit Anil
Palit. However, notwithstanding all these, Roy is liberal enough to
imbibe the style of Ustad Vilayat Khan of the Etawah School alongside the obvious influences of Pandit Ravi Shankar and Pandit Nikhil
Banerjee of Maihar.
The prodigy in him was recognised by such colossal exponents of
Indian classical music as the late Ustad Karamatullah Khan, late
Pandit Jnana Prakash Ghosh, late Pandit Jamini Ganguly, late Pandit
Gokul Nag, and others. His emergence as a new star on the firmament of classical Indian music seemed imminent with his superb
solo performance in the presence of 1 lakh audience at the Youth
Festival held at the Ranji Stadium, Calcutta, in 1978, and a three-hour
solo Sitar recital at the Max Muller Bhavan, German Consulate,
Calcutta, in 1980.
Apart from being a solo performer of Indian classical music, Partha
Pratim Roy has an abiding interest in various other musical genres,
and in the same vein he had the privilege of working with the late
legendary Pandit Ananda Shankar in the latter’s orchestra. He has
also scored music for ballets and television serials and worked with
eminent personalities like Utpalendu Chakraborty, Madhabi
Mukherjee, Swapan Sen, Kalyan Sen Barat, V. Balsara, Dilip Roy, etc.
He has also composed music for dance ballets and worked with
Pandit Vijay Shankar, the late Pandit Omprakash Maharaj,
Rani Karnaa, and many others.
He has recently formed his own Fusion Music Troupe with a view to
preserving and propagating traditional Indian culture the world
round. The fusion music created by him, mainly based on Sitar,
Sarod, Dhol, Khol, Tabla, and various other Indian and western musical instruments, is a class by itself, being poles apart from the others
in vogue.
Thripthi, Near Police ground, Thycadu P.O, Trivandrum - 695 014
Tel: 0471 2321747, 2320198 [email protected]