Arnab Chakrabarty - Hindustani Sarode player and teacher

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Chakrabarty has overcome considerable odds to emerge as one of the finest Sarode players in the world, and is now recognized,
wherever there are serious aficionados of Hindustani music, as a rising force in instrumental music.

Born and raised in Mumbai and educated in the United States, Arnab's performance and teaching philosophies reflect a
cosmopolitan mix of academic values, rationally assimilated to suit the multiple worlds he straddles as a performer, pedagogue
and researcher.

Arnab openly rejects the faux-mystical paraphernalia that has come to be associated with the global image of India and
especially its performing arts traditions.

Arnab Chakrabarty is married to Tiksha Kaul, an economist, and lives in New Delhi, India. He tours regularly in the West.

Arnab Chakrabarty
Hindustani Sarode player and Teacher

"A prodigious talent on the Sarode...." - Prakash Wadhera in The Hindu (2001)		Arnab's playing stands apart from his peers in the sense that while he has cultivated his playing technique to the highest levels, it is the aesthetic considerations of raga music that predominate over the quest for cosmetic perfection and instrumental acrobatics, which are so prevalent today among Indian musicians. In spite of considerable public exposure in the mid-1990s as a teenaged prodigy, Arnab Chakrabarty has chosen the more difficult of the choices available to him, and spends much of his time in practice, composing and introspection. This immersion in his craft has seen Arnab push the technical, aesthetic and interpretive boundaries of sarode playing. Here is a sarode player capable of bringing a raga alive, a quality very few Indian musicians possess these days.
	Arnab is a traditional Sarode player and traces his musical roots to the Seniya-Shahjahanpur Gharana. A disciple of Prof. Kalyan Mukherjea (1943-2010), an authoritative master of this style, Arnab also receives occasional guidance from the widely respected khayal singer Pandit Yashwantbua Joshi. He had his early training from Brij Narayan of the Seniya Maihar Gharana and Buddhadev Das Gupta of the Seniya-Shahjahanpur Gharana.