Subhranil Sarkar at the Young Talents Conference at the age of 12. He was under the tutelage of Sri Bimal Chatterjee of Etawah Gharana. Special mention must be made of Sri Tarit Mukherjee who also guided him in that phase.
Raga Khamaj (Imdadkhani Baaj)



Khamaj - Subhranil Sarkar (at the age of 12 years) - Sitar

Sitar Player Subhranil Sarkar (disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez) performing at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark.
Raga Jhinjhoti (Alap) excerpt

Jhinjhoti [Alap] - Subhranil Sarkar - Sitar

Sitar: Subhranil Sarkar (disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez)
Tabla: Subhajyoti Guha (disciple of Pandit Sankha Chatterjee)
Raga Shyam Kalyan - Drut Gat in Ektaal
excerpt from a concert at Pandit Sankha Chatterjee's house performed in front of Panditji, his students, several musicians and listeners on the ocassion of Saraswati Puja

Shyam Kalyan [Ektaal] - Subhranil Sarkar - Sitar

Sitar: Subhranil Sarkar (disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez)
Tabla: Arkendu Mitra (disciple of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri)
Raga Bageshree - Vilambit Gat
excerpt from concert at the Salt Lake Music Festival

Bageshree [11beats] - Subhranil Sarkar - Sitar

Sitar: Subhranil Sarkar (disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez)
Tabla: Unmesh Banerjee (disciple of Pandit Sunil Banerjee, Vidwan S Sekhar, Pandit Shankar Ghosh and Pandit Bikram Ghosh)
Raga Charukeshi - Vilambit Gat [Rupak]
excerpt from concert organized by Sur Shravan

Charukeshi [Rupak] - Subhranil Sarkar - Sitar

Sitar: Subhranil Sarkar (disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez)
Tabla: Timir Baran Chakraborty (disciple of Late Pt. Nikhilesh Mitra)
Raga Kirwani - Vilambit Gat [Jhaptaal]
excerpt from concert organized by Parampara in memory of Pandit Nikhilesh Mitra

Kirwani [Jhaptaal] - Subhranil Sarkar - Sitar

Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan as a teenager
tabla - Pandit Amar Nath Dey

Rageshree - Shahid Parvez Khan (tabla - Amar Nath Dey)

Sitar: Subhranil Sarkar (disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez)
Tabla: Amit Chatterjee (disciple of Pandit Sankha Chatterjee)
Raga Jhinjhoti - Vilambit Gat [Teentaal]
excerpts of Alap and Gat from a concert organized by Salt Lake Cultural Association approximately 4 years ago

This is recorded on a cassette and gifted to the musician by Late Smt. Leena Bose, a student of Ustad Shahid Parvez.
It was recorded on a cassette player from inside the auditorium and gifted as a copy in another cassette..
Just as one would ignore the surface noise while listening to a gramophone record, please ignore the sound quality while listening to this piece of music.. 


Jhinjhoti [Alap & Gat] - Subhranil Sarkar - Sitar

Khamaj - Aochar; Drut Gat - Ustad Enayat Khan
from 78rpm disc
Ustad Enayat Khan's - 
grandfather: Ustad Sahabdad Khan
father: Ustad Imdad Khan
brother: Ustad Wahid Khan
sons: Ustad Vilayat Khan & Ustad Imrat Khan
grandsons: Ustads Shujaat Khan, Nishat Khan, Irshad Khan, Wajahat Khan, & Shafatullah Khan Hidayat Khan

Sitar - Ustad Enayat Khan - Khamaj - Aochar & Drut Gat

Piloo - Aochar & Drut Gat - Ustad Wahid Khan
from 78rpm disc
Ustad Wahid Khan's - 
grandfather: Ustad Sahabdad Khan
father: Ustad Imdad Khan
brother: Ustad Enayat Khan
sons: Ustad Hafeez Khan & Ustad Aziz Khan
grandson: Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan

Sitar - Ustad Wahid Khan - Piloo - Aochar & Drut Gat

Subhranil Sarkar is regarded as one of the most prominent Sitar-players of his generation. He belongs to Sitar’s first family, the ‘Etawah Gharana’ (also known as the Imdadkhani Gharana) which has gifted Hindustani Classical Music such great maestros as Ustad Imdad Khan, Ustad Enayat Khan, Ustad Wahid Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan and Ustad Imrat Khan.

He was initiated into music at the age of 6 by Sri Bimal Chatterjee of ‘Etawah Gharana’. He gave his first public performance at the age of 8 in Kolkota, and he started performing at the All India Radio, Kolkata from the age of 9.

In 2000, Subhranil was accepted as a disciple by the great Sitar maestro Padma-Shri Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan and with this began a new chapter in Subhranil’s musical life. Within a few years he has established himself as one of the foremost disciples of Ustadji and one of the young torchbearers of his Gharana.

Subhranil acquired his Masters degree in Music from the Rabindra Bharati University being the first-class first gold medalist of his year. For quite a few years he was associated with the Archive of North Indian Classical Music (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) as an archivist and has been appointed as an Examiner as well as Adjudicator with the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He has presented ‘lecture-demonstrations on Sitar’, the ‘Etawah Gharana’ and ‘Ustad Amir Khan’ at several prestigious Institutions.

Subhranil Sarkar has performed in numerous concerts in India, US, Europe, UK, Mexico and South-east Asia. 

One of the biggest highlights of Subhranil’s musical journey is to have accompanied the great Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan on the sitar in concerts.

Subhranil Sarkar [Sitar]

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