Ramprapanna Bhattacharya
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Ramprapanna Bhattacharya is an Indian classical sitarist of the
Etawah Gharana The Etawah gharana is a North Indian school of sitar and surbahar music and named after a small town close to Agra where Imdad Khan (1848–1920) lived. It is also known as Imdadkhani gharana in the honour of its founder, Imdad Khan. Imdad K ...
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Early life

He began his sitar training at the age of six from his father in Kolkata, India. He also received musical training from Kashinath Mukherjee and
Arvind Parikh Arvind Parikh (born 19 October 1927) is an Indian classical sitar player. Early life Arvind was born in Ahmedabad into a Gujarati business family with cultural and spiritual influences. His father Natwar Lal was a businessman and mother Chandra ...
, both senior disciples of
Vilayat Khan Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player, considered by many to be the greatest sitarist of his age. Along with Imdad Khan, Enayat Khan, and Imrat Khan, he is credited with the creation a ...
. He is the recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, India. He has performed and given workshops in different cities in India including Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bhopal, Puna, Jaipur, Ajmer, Satara and out of India, notably United Kingdom including London, Peterborough, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Chelmsford, Leeds etc. Ramprapanna obtained bachelor's degrees in Electronics & Communication Engineering and also has a corporate job.


References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian sitar players Hindustani instrumentalists Bengali musicians Etawah gharana Indian male classical musicians {{string-musician-stub