Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod) Tejendra Narayan Majumdar is one of the well known sarod players of India, who belongs to a younger generation of musicians. His performance sparkles with virtuosity as well as classicism. He represents the Senia Maihar school (i.e. Gharana) of instrumental music. The most notable exponents of this style are Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. Born in 1961, Tejendra started his initial lessons at a very early age. His grandfather, Bibhuti Rajan Majumdar and his father Ranjan Majumdar were his teachers in instrumental music, but Tejendra also proficient in vocal music because of the training he received from Amaresh Chowdhury. At a later stage, Tejendra became a disciple of Ustad Bahadur Khan, one of the ablest of sarod players and a teachers. He continued with Bahadur Khan for almost 18 years, but after his death, Tejendra studied under another highly respected teacher, Ajay Rai Sinha. Currently Tejendra regularly receives valuable guidance from Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Tejendra, with his own efforts, has synthesized a style of his own, that blends in tantrakari (i.e. instrumental) and gayaki (i.e. vocal) styles. His performances are balanced with seriousness and classicism. Tejendra has received many honors and awards, important among them are, the First Place Ranking in All India Radio Music Competition, the Presidents Gold Medal and the Pandit D. V. Paluskar award. He has given performances in all major music conferences or festivals in India and has been on concert tours of Europe, U.S.A., Canada and many other countries.   Subhankar Banerjee (tabla) A representative of Farukhabad gharana, Subhankar is an highly talented tabla player. He received his initial training from his father, Sunil Kumar Banerjee. Later he continued his training under the guidance of Preetimoy Goswami and Swapan Siva. Subhankar has performed with distinguished vocalists such as Pandit Jasraj, Ajoy Chakrabarty, Rashid Khan, and with instrumentalists such as N. Rajam (violin), Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar), Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute), Ronu Majumdar (flute), Shahid Parvez (sitar), Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (guitar), and Shivkumar Sharma (santoor). He has been on concert tours with many of these artistes many times over.   Web design by JIVI solutions. Art work (c) Leelavati Bagavant.