Indian cl*ical slide guitar player

Musical artist

Debasis Chakroborty (born 9 June 1961) is an Indian cl*ical slide guitar player from Senia-Maihar Gharana.

Chakroborty was born in Calcutta, India, and began learning guitar from his father Sh. Madhusudan Chakroborty. He then came under the tutelage of guitarist Pandit Barun *ar Pal from Kolkata, and Pandit Jotin Bhattacharya, a sarod player and senior disciple of Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan Sahib of Maihar Gharana. Later on, Debasis became a disciple of the guitarist Pundit Brij Bhushan Kabra.

Debasis's style of playing combines both Gayaki and Tantrakari Angs. He follows the oldest tradition of playing sarode, sitar and veena with his modified Hawaiian guitar, which has a three-octave range.

He is an "A" grade artiste of Prasar Bharati in both Hindustani Cl*ical and light music, and performed in the National programme. He is an ICCR empanelled artiste under the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. He has performed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia as visiting faculty and artist in residence. At present, he lectures in the Department of Music, Ins*ute of Visual Performing Arts & Research, Mangalayatan University in Aligarh.

Discography

• 2012 – " Soul Mate" ecstasy on Slide Guitar, Label: Mountains Meet the Sea Productions-Australia,India,Switzerland

Solo with Sam Evans (Tabla)

• 2008 – Charukeshi, with Robert Burke, Stephen Magnusson, Sam Evans

*ociated Works

• 2008 – Creatures at the Crossroads, with Gian Slater
• 2010 – Tumbling into the Dawn, with Lior

References

External links

• Official website
• "A night of music with friends". Monash University. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013.
• "MIJF: Beyond Borders and Barlines (India/AUS) - 06 Jun". Bennetts Lane. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.