Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical

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player.

Early life

He started learning tabla from his father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, who had played with

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Career

Ghosh has performed with

and

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. Ghosh performs in various avatars. His long-standing band, Rhythmscape, which performs neo-fusion music, celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2011. To celebrate the occasion Rhythmscape collaborated with Greg Ellis to perform in Kolkata and Mumbai, an event organized by Folktronic. The band also released their second album, ''Transformation'', which went on to win the Best Fusion Album at the Indian Recording Arts Awards 2012. Ghosh performs within Troikala with Assamese folk/indie singer Papon and Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni. Troikala was curated and organized by British Council in association with Folktronic. He performed as part of fusion Sufi act, "Sufusion" with vocalists Ambarish Das and Parvati Kumar, keyboardist Indrajit Dey, and drummer Arun Kumar. Ghosh collaborated with

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to compose the music for the film ''Jal''. Ghosh has also scored music for the

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production, '' Little Zizou''. Ghosh launched his music company, Melting Pot Productions, in October 2010.

Recent activities

On 1 October 2012, Ghosh won the 2012 Global Indian Music Academy (GIMA) Awards in the Best Pop/Rock Single category for his composition, Vande Mataram, featuring a host of artists across India, including Sonu Nigam,

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and Sunidhi Chauhan. In June 2012, Ghosh performed a concert "One World Fusion Extravaganza" at

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auditorium in

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to mark

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. He appeared in an episode of MTV Roots.

Personal life

He married actress

Jaya Seal Jaya Seal Ghosh the renowned actress and dancer started learning Bharatanatyam from a very early age under Guru Indira P. P. Bora for five years. Simultaneously she was also acting in Assamese television and did plays with noted Assamese thea ...

in 2004.

Discography

New-age experimental Collaborations Classical solo Classical accompaniment Experimental accompaniment

Filmography

Actor : * ''

Hotath Neerar Jonnyo ''Hotath Neerar Jonnyo'' is a 2004 Bengali film directed by director Subrata Sen. It is based on a short story ''Rani O Abinash'' by noted novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay. Plot Rani (Ghosh) is a housewife with a successful husband, Tapas, and a ki ...

'' * ''Choy'' Music director (Bengali films) : Music director (Hindi films) :

References

External links

Official Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosh, Bickram 1966 births Living people Tabla players Indian male classical musicians Indian percussionists Bengali male actors Bengali musicians St. Xavier's College, Kolkata alumni University of Calcutta alumni Jadavpur University alumni Indian film score composers World music percussionists Musicians from Kolkata Indian male film score composers Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award