With vocalist Silpi Paul, and tabla player Dhiman Bhattacharya
Gandharva Veda is a part of the Vedas and is called the Upa (subsidiary) Veda of Sama Veda and includes the treatise on music and the performing arts.
The Gandharva Veda is based on melodies called ragas. Each raga has its own structure, combining fixed elements with infinite variations. This allows the musician to express all the subtleties of the vibration prevailing at that particular time of day.
Tickets for the concert will be £12 which can be paid online or in cash at the door.
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Guests not practicing Transcendental Meditation are most welcome, although we regret that we will be unable to offer supper beforehand.
Vocalist
is a Gandharva Veda Indian classical vocalist from Kolkata, India following Kirana & Benaras Senia Gharana (style of Music), a disciple of Pandit Arun Bhaduri and Padmavibhusan Vidushi Girija Devi. She is an All India Radio graded artist, and empanelled artist of Spic Macay and Doordarshan. She has been performing many prestigious concerts across India and abroad as well.
Born in a family of music lovers, Silpi Paul started learning vocal music from Sri Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, a disciple of Pandit Manas Chakraborty. Later she got trained under Pandit Nihar Ranjan Bandopadhyay of Bishnupur Gharana and finally Pandit Arun Bhaduri of Kirana Gharana. At present she is under the tutelage of the doyen of Hindustani classical music, Padmabhushan Smt. Girija Devi of Benaras Gharana.
Silpi graduated from Calcutta University and has obtained ‘Sangeet Bisharad’ from the Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh. She has also obtained Masters’ (M.A.) in Vocal Music i.e. Khayal from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata with 1st Class Distinction marks.
She was awarded National Scholarship in Hindustani Music from Govt. of India. Sur Singer Samsad, Mumbai, awarded her the prestigious title ‘Surmani’. She is a Graded Artiste of Kolkata Television and All India Radio in Khayal, Thumri, Dadra and Bhajan.
Silpi has received several awards and recognitions from organisations like Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Govt. of India), Pandit Ravi Kichlu Foundation, Dover Lane Music Conference, West Bengal State Music Academy, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi.
Table player
Dhiman Bhattacharya started his lesson of tabla under Sanjib Pal who is a senior disciple of Acharya Pandit Shankar Ghosh. Later he got the blessings of Guru Pt. Bickram Ghosh where he has been learning for the last 8 years.
Dhiman has accompanied many young and reputed artists like Pt. Sriram Umdekar, Pt. Partha Bose, Sri Soumalya Chakraborty, Sri Chiradip sarkar, Sri Abhisek Mallick and many others. He also has been associated with various musical projects with his Guru Pt. Ghosh.
Besides performing, he has been teaching in The Bickram Ghosh Academy of Performing Arts as assistant teacher for the last 7 years.
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The Gandharva Veda Concert feedback has been overwhelming: ‘Brilliant’ ‘Best ever’, ‘absolutely superb’, ‘I transcended many times’ and despite the pouring rain there was a good attendance.
“Gandharva music…sets forth those very natural melodies which match with the process of evolution. It provides a powerful harmonizing influence in the whole atmosphere to balance imbalances in nature.”
“The goal of Gandharva-Veda concerts is the elimination of pollution, elimination of imbalances, elimination of negative tendencies, elimination of crime, quarrels, elimination of imbalance in the physiology, imbalance in the behavior. So, all betterment in every way. Better quality of life, better behavior, better health.” – Maharishi
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