Partha Bose
The Sitar Maestro
The story begins in 1968 when a six-year-old boy from a family of industrialists in Kolkata, India, was initiated to SITAR under GURU Pandit MONOJ SHANKAR of MAIHAR GHARANA - to pursue music as a hobby. Intensive training, rigorous practice & above all, Destiny chalked out his career as a professional musician, who entered the SIXTH DECADE in Life's Journey in January 2022 and enjoys world-wide acclaim.
Music-lovers rejoice as they find the 'Maihar Magic' lives on - beyond Ravi Shankar & Nikhil Banerjee - promising more heart-touching melodies in the years to come.
Top-ranking MUSIC FESTIVALS & NATIONALLY REPUTED ORGANIZATIONS have featured PARTHA BOSE in memorable performances.
Some of them - including SAWAI GANDHARVA-BHIMSEN, HARIBALLBH, SAPTAK, DOVER LANE, TANSEN GWALIOR, AMEER KHAN INDORE, ALLAUDDIN KHAN MAIHAR, VASANTRAO DESHPANDE, SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY, WEST BENGAL STATE MUSIC ACADEMY, VISHNUPUR UTSAV, SA MA PA, SANKAT MOCHAN, BUDHWA MANGAL, YAAD-E-BISMILLAH, RAJAB ALI KHAN-AMANAT ALI KHAN SAMAROH, I.O.S.,
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA FESTIVAL - featured sterling performances which projected him as a leading instrumentalist of the country.
Pandit MONOJ SHANKAR, who initiated Partha in music & trained him intensively in the truest traditions of "Guru-Shishya- Parampara" (the unique system of teaching Classical Indian Music prevalent since ancient times) for 53 years till his death in 2021, was widely acknowledged as a senior representative of the celebrated Senia-Maihar Gharana - noted for his performances across the country and a highly developed mode of specialized training.
Monoj Shankar - himself a leading disciple of Ustad Ali Ahmed Khan & Ustad Bahadur Khan - evolved a musicality that blended the Dhrupad-ang & Veenkar Baaj of Sitar propounded by Ustad Allauddin Khan & a subtle infusion of Sarod elements in the repertoire & stylization of Sitar-playing. This gave the traditional Maihar-Gharana Sitar style a different dimension.
Partha Bose assimilated these elements from his Guru and amalgamated distinct areas of Rabab-ang Bols as well as Khayal- ang Vistar & Taankari - to evolve a distinct style rooted in tradition, yet yielding to imagination. The philosophy - inherent in his Music - seems to indicate his bias for emotional expression & musical totality rather than an obsession with technique & dexterity. It is this Vision of Music that probably makes Bose a "different" Sitar-player among the leading ones in contemporary instrumentalists.
A musical introspection, an endeavour to relate SOUND WITH SILENCE, ABSTRACTION with REALITY, finds articulate expression in the Maestro's media interviews.
Seeking to REACH OUT, he believes he has to REACH IN...to COLOUR the MIND and TOUCH the SOUL.
