PANDIT ARNAB CHAKRABARTY sarod

Pandit Arnab Chakrabarty has been performing worldwide since 1998, appearing in over 30 countries and giving over 850 concerts. He has performed at leading venues and festivals such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Silk Road Festival (Damascus), Trafó Theatre (Budapest), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester),and the Saptak Festival in Ahmedabad. He has also been invited to lecture at institutions including Leeds University, Syracuse University, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Trained in the traditional Lucknow and Shahjahanpur gharanas, he has studied with some of the most erudite luminaries of the sarod, like Dr Kalyan Mukherjea, Ustad Irfan Muhammad Khan and Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta. His music displays a wonderfully subtle amalgamation of his gurus, catalysed by his own unceasing quest for blending skill with emotion, virtuosity with affect.