ABOUT

Rupak Bhattacharjee is one of the most established and popular names in the field of classical percussion music at present. Blessed to be born in a family of music lovers and practitioners, Rupak was introduced to the world of music through tabla, at the age of four, by his first guru, his father Sri Arun Bhattacharjee. He then took his further training from Sri Mrinal Kanti Bakshi in Farukabad Style. Later, he got the blessed opportunity to hone his talent under able guidance of the living legend of tabla, Pt Anindo Chatterjee.

Rupak has, since then added many feathers to his hat. One of the most important being standing first in AIR music competition and achieving President's award in 2004. He has, in this short period of his career, established himself not only as a distinguished solo performer but also as an accomplished accompanist. Within these years, he has travelled all over the globe and the country leaving the audience mesmerized as a solo and accompanying performer with almost all the doyens and luminaries of Indian classical music.

Rupak, an “A” grade artiste of All India Radio and DoorDarshan has already become a regular performer both as a Soloist & as an accomplished accompanist with several stalwart and top grade musicians all over India and abroad. He has achieved the rare opportunity to ably support his guru PT. ANINDO CHATTERJEE on duet tabla solos in several prestigious concerts.

Awards and Achievements

  • • Rupak was awarded with first (1st) position in the ALL INDIA RADIO MUSIC COMPETITION in 2004 and achieved the “President’s Gold Medal”.
  • • He received "PANDIT NIKHIL GHOSH MEMORIAL PROMISING ARTISTE AWARD", Mumbai, 2005.
  • • He earned the NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP from the Govt. of India, 2003~2005.
  • • Achieved FIRST PRIZE in the "PANDIT JNAN PRAKASH GHOSH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION” ~~tabla compition, 2001.
  • • He was awarded "VISHARAD" by Sarba Varatiya Sangeet~O~Sanskriti Parisad

Featuring performances

  • • All India Radio-National Programme 2014,16
  • • Akasvani Sangeet Sammelan,2012
  • • The World Heritage Music Festival, Thailand, 2009.
  • • International World Music Festival, Ministry of Culture, Algeria, 2010.
  • • ORIENT Festival,Estonia,2015
  • • International Music Fest, Damascus, 2012
  • • RAJYA SANGEET ACADEMY, W.B.
  • • Delhi International Arts festival, 2010.
  • • ITC-SRA annual music conference
  • • INDO OCCIDENTAL SYMBIOSIS
  • • Heritage Judge Festival-Goa,
  • • Congo Square International Judge Festival, Kolkata
  • • Vubaneswar Music Festival
  • • Tala Vadya Utsab- Vubaneswar
  • • Fine Art Fest-Baroda
  • • Fine Art Fest-Chennai
  • • Pt.Nikhil Banerjee Memorial Music Conference, Kolkata,
  • • NCPA,Mumbai
  • • DUMRU-THE DRUM FESTIVAL OF INDIA, PUNE, 2011
  • • Shangeet Ashram, Kolkata
  • • Sutanutiparisad ,Kolkata
  • • Uttarpar Sangeet Chakra
  • • Pdt.Bhimsen Joshi National Festival for Music and Dance ,Hyderabad ,2015

Rupak has toured number of countries such as GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, ESTONIA, THAILAND, ALGERIA, FINLAND, AUSTRIA, SYRIA, QATAR, INDONESIA, ITALY, BANGLADESH and other European countries extensively.

Music Albums

Rupak has already two released music album viz.
- “RHYTHM OF PASSION”, tabla solo, India,
- “AANURAG”, classical fusion with Pt.Ranajit Sengupta, Switzerland.

With the legends

He has been performing with the top graded musicians of India such as,

PT.AMIYA RANJAN BANDAPADHYAY, PT.BUDDHADEV DASGUPTA, VIDUSHI SHISHIRKANA DHARCHOUDHURY, PT.TEJENDRA NARAYAN MAJUMDAR, PT.SAUMITRO LAHIRY ,PT.DEBASHIS BHATTACHARYA(Guitar), VID.SHASHANK SUBHRAMANYAM,PT.PURBAYAN CHATTERJEE, PT.PARTHO SHARATHI, PT.TARUN BHATTACHARYA, PT.DEBOJYOTI BOSE, PT. SOHANLAL SHARMA,VIDUSHI PURNIMA CHAUDHURY, VIDUSHI KALYANI RAY, VIDUSHI JAYA BISWAS, PT.RANAJIT SENGUPTA, SMT.KAUSHIKI CHAKRABORTY,DR.NARMADA, SMT.MITA NAG, ,MR.KEN ZUCKERMAN, PARTHA SARATHI DESIKAN, PT.RAMESH MISHRA, PT.SUBRATA RAY CHOWDHURY, PT. KAMAL MALLIK , …..to name a few.

Education

Besides, in academic carrier, he is a M.SC. in PHYSICS with FIRST CLASS under the UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA.

Specialties

Rupak’s crisp tonal quality, modulation, presentation of difficult and rare compositions with extreme speed, clarity & sweetness, overall, profound approach towards the art of playing tabla has earned praises of great masters of our music and placed him as a leading tabla exponent of younger generation.