Pt.Tarun Bhattacharya.
BIOGRAPHY
Tarun Bhattacharya has speedily risen to the top rank of performing artists in the genre of North Indian Classical music. Young, shy and modest by nature, he has played in several music concerts and festivals in India and across the globe - in U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Russia, Dubai, Bangladesh and many other countries and touched the hearts of millions by his inimitable talent and technique.
He has collaborated with Pandit Ravi Shankar and George Harrison for special projects and is featured in Pandit Ravi Shankar's "Inside the Kremlin" recording at the India Festival in Moscow. Recently, in acknowledgement of his renowned genius, he was invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the BBC PROM's centenary celebrations. The thunderous ovation and royal applause he received at this event from the 6,000 strong audience, overwhelmed him omega replica italia and his tabla accompanist, Bikram Ghosh.
Tarun's initiation into Indian music came at an early age in his life from his father, Robi Bhattacharya and later from Dulal Roy, both well known names in Bengal. Later, he undertook special training with Pandit Ravi Shankar. Tarun has an unmatched style of playing the santoor, breitling klockor kopior and those who have heard Pandit Shivkumar Sharma will immediately see his originality. Emulating sometimes the deep timbre of the veena, sometimes the sensuous embellishments of sitar-sarod, Tarun can invoke and submerge the audience into a spiritual tryst with the mystic heart of Nature. Among many singular contributions to the playing of the instrument, Tarun introduces the meend, an effect very difficult to cajole out of the santoor.
He has over a dozen national and international recordings in the form of record albums, casettes and compact discs to his credit. Tarun is also an A-grade artist in All India Radio and Indian Television.