Sudeshna is a musician, playing the rich tradition of north Indian classical music. Her instrument is the sarod. The more than one meter long, 19 strings sarod is a descendant of a mid-Asian instrument, the rabab, witch was modified seven generation ago, to better suit Indian music. Children usually begin to acquaint with the instrument at early age of four, and practice each passage or movement on the instrument for many years.

In contrary to sitar, the places of the individual notes on the fretboard of the sarod are not set, as with the violin or cello. This particularity, and similarity with bowed western and Indian instruments is an important necessity for Indian music, knowing more notes, or micro tones than the western scale.

Sarod, and music generally, played in India is inherited from father to son, meaning that there are very few female musicians in the country. There are only three known female sarod players in the world, and Sudeshna is one for them.

Sudeshna Bhattacharya was born in Kolkata. Her first teacher was her father Krishnamohan Bhattacharya, who is respected not only because of his sarod, but also because of his vocal knowledge. According to the tradition, Krishnamohan Bhattacharya learnt from his father, who was a great esraj player.

After studying form her father, Sudeshna gave her first public recital at the age of seven. and in the same year she started participating in musical competition too. Throughout three years she was chosen as the best among all the applicants, winning the first prize and a national scholarship for 9 years.

Thanks to the scholarship, she could pursue her musical studies and participate in recording under tutelage of one of the greatest and most well known sarod maestros of India, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. Sudeshna was the youngest awarded by the Indian national scholarship, which she received till her age of 20. During this period she regularly performed on radio, live and television.

She was 20 years old when she majored in the musical conservatory of Allahbad, and again received a national scholarship for further two years. In 2001 she won the title of best Indian musician, and in 2002 the title of best music performer in India. Sudeshna Bhattacharya is a holder of a master degree "Sangeet Visharad" from the University in Varanasi.

Sudeshna had her first European tour in 1999 touring Belgium, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Norway, and a half hour broadcast and one hour interview on Belgian public radio. It was this occasion that the music loving audience of Europe got to know her, and from this time she was regularly invited to performances.

In 2003 the Ministry of Culture in France invited her to the Strictly Mondial international festival, and offered her a five year contract. Since the she's living in Marseilles, and she's giving concerts, teaching, recording and participating in French cultural happenings with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.

Till now her music was known by audiences in Portugal, India, England, Algeria, Spain, Italy, Israel, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Hungary, Reunion, Monaco, Morocco, Thailand, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. March 2007 she played on the Babel

Med International festival in Marseilles, from where 56 French radio channels broadcasting their concert.

Sudeshna Bhattacharya begynte å spille sarod allerede som fireåring og holde konserter i en alder av syv. Hennes Guru er den store Sarod-maestroen Pandit Amjad Ali Khan og hun er i dag en av de mest fremgangsrike artister i sin generasjon.

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Sudeshna er musiker fra den rike tradisjonen nord-indisk klassisk musikk, hennes instrument er sarod.
Indisk klassisk musikk er improvisasjonsmusikk som passer godt til et lyttende publikum. Sudeshna har en enorm indre kraft som gjør hennes konserter til en sterk opplevelse som ingen går uberørt fra.

 

Hennes hjemmeside kan du se her

Et live opptak kan sees her ca 3min !

Enda et liveopptak ca 15 min kan du se her

Et liveopptak på ca 35 min her