Vocal by Vd Shubra Guha

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The second event of our 10th Anniversary mini-festival features renowned Agra Gharana vocalist Vd Shubra Guha. She will be accompanied by her disciple Smt Somdatta Chatterjee (Vocal), Shri Jagadeesh Kurthkoti (Tabla) and Shri Bhargav Sridhar (Harmonium).

ARTIST BIOS:

Vd Shubhra Guha is regarded as one of the leading female vocalists of her generation and a distinguished exponent of the Agra Gharana. She is also widely recognised as one of the finest practitioners of the Poorab Ang tradition of thumri.

Shubra ji received her initial training from Shri Satish Bhowmick before becoming a disciple of Pandit Sunil Bose, under whom she trained for ten years as a scholar at the prestigious Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata. She subsequently received guidance from Pandit K. G. Ginde and Pandit D. T. Joshi, from whom she learnt the nuances of musicality, aesthetics and thumri rendition, and also received guidance from Pandit Vijay Kichlu in developing her distinctive style of gayaki.

Alongside her mastery of khayal, Vd Shubra Guha has developed an exceptional repertoire of rare thumri, dadra, kajri and chaiti in the pure Benaras tradition, as well as rare ragas and compositions. She is a regular artiste of All India Radio and Doordarshan and has released albums with HMV, RPG, Music Today and IAM. She was a scholar and subsequently a Guru at the Sangeet Research Academy for 11 years, becoming its only female scholar to attain the stature of a Guru. She has performed extensively across…