Thumri Tales

Anirban Bhattacharyya is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana and a Social Anthropologist from Kolkata. A senior disciple of Padmabhushan Ajoy Chakraborty, Anirban is a President of India Gold and Silver Medalist from All India Radio in Khyal and Thumri, and Champion in Thumri from State Music Academy in 2010. Anirban is also a National Scholar in Rabindra Sangeet and had the opportunity of learning from and performing with the legendary Kathak maestro Padma Vibhushan Birju Maharaj all over India and abroad. Anirban has been invited to perform in some of the most prestigious festivals in UK and has extensively toured USA, UK, South Africa, Malaysia, and Bangladesh and had the privilege of performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London along with Shankar Mahadevan. Anirban is presently pursuing PhD in Sociology from Shiv Nadar University.

Jagannath Roy

Jagannath Roy is an experienced Tabla player and a versatile musician. In the early years, Jagannath found acclaimed tabla player Shubhen Chatterjee as his guru. Later he had the good fortune of receiving guidance from the great Pt Gyan Prakash Ghosh and also got talim from tabla maestro Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. Over the past four decades has accompanied eminent and upcoming vocalists and instrumentalists, he has given numerous performances and earned a good name for himself, and received many rewards from different organizations all over the country and overseas.

Ahsan Ali

Ahsan Ali the son and disciple of the great Sarangi Maestro late Ustad Asif Ali Khan from Kairana gharana and performed accompaniment and Solo concerts Across the world.