Sarbari Gangopadhyay (Mukherjee) is a Hindustani Classical vocalist of the Rampur Sahaswan gharana, Dagar gharana & Khandarbani gharana. She is the granddaughter of Late Pandit Santosh Kumar Banerjee who was a well known Hindustani Classical singer. Sarbari got her initial training from her mother Smt. Minoti Mukherjee, a student of Chinmoy Chatterjee and Jyotileswar Mukherjee. She then learnt Khayal, Bhajan, Thumri, Tarana from Pandit Arun Bhaduri and Girija Devi at the Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata, India. She got trained in Dhrupad from Pandit Arun Bhattacharya, Smt.Kaberi Kar and Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar in the Guru Shishya parampara style in delhi. She also has training in Tabla from Pandit Samir Chatterjee.
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The Aradhana School Of Music was founded in 2010 by Sarbari Gangopadhyay to propagate the learning of Hindustani Classical Music. Students of all ages and from locations all over the US have received instructions in vocal and instrumental music from the school over the last eight years.
Kalavati is a modern pentatonic Hindustani raga; Re (the second tone) and Ma (the fourth tone) are omitted. Kalavati belongs to the Khamaj thaat.
Durga, also identified as Adi Parashakti, Devī, Shakti, Bhavani, Parvati, Amba, Yogmaya and by numerous other names, is a principal and popular form of Hindu goddess. She is the warrior goddess, whose mythology centres around combating evils and demonic forces that threaten peace, prosperity and dharma of the good. She is the fierce form of the protective mother goddess, willing to unleash her anger against wrong, violence for liberation and destruction to empower creation.
Dhrupad sultaal in Raga Durga. Vocal: Sarbari Gangopadhyay, Tabla: Pandit Samir Chatterjee
Vocal: Sarbari Gangopadhyay, Tabla: Chitto Naskar, Harmonium: Namita Kundu, Tanpura: Devi Giri & Madhuri Varadhan.
