Kushal Das

Kushal Das
Born	Kolkata, India
Occupation	Musician
Musical career
Genres	indian classical hindustani
Instruments	Surbahar Sitar
Labels	Ocora Peshkar India Archive Music

Kushal Das (pronunciation:[kuɕəl̪ d̪ɑːs̪] कुशल् दास्) is an Indian musician who plays Sitar and Surbahar. He is a grade A musician at All India Radio and Doordarshan. ^[1]

Early life

Kushal Das was born in Kolkata into a family of musicians. He started playing Sitar at the age of four.

Career

He took Sitar lessons first from his father, Sailen Das and then from his uncle, Santanu Das. Kushal's father was a renowned Esraj player and a disciple of Ravi Shankar. His uncle was a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan. Later Kushal Das took guidance from Professor Sanjoy Banerjee and Ajoy Sinha Roy. He took vocal lessons from Manas Chakraborty and Ramkrishna Basu.^[2]

He discovered Madhu-palasi raaga, by combining Madhuvanti and Bhimpalasi raagas.

Kushal has played in major music festivals of India, like Tansen Music Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan.^[3] He plays regularly on All India Radio concerts and has toured to Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bangladesh.^[4][5][6]

Discography

• Inde Du Nord: Kushal Das, Sitar (Ocora, 2000)^[7]
• Kushal Das, Abhijit Banerjee – Raga Desh, Mishra Pahadi (Peshkar,2000)^[8]
• Raga Marwa - Surbahar (Ocora,2004)^[9]
• Kushal Das – Sitar (India Archive Music,2007)^[10]

References

1. "Sitar and Surbahar". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
2. "Pandit Kushal Das". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
3. "Artist - Kushal Das". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
4. "Seduced by the raagas on the Sitar". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
5. "Kushal Das at Sage Gateshead". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
6. "Kushal Das on Sitars Das". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
7. "Inde Du Nord: Kushal Das, Sitar". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
8. "Kushal Das, Abhijit Banerjee – Raga Desh, Mishra Pahadi". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
9. "Raga Marwa - Surbahar". Retrieved 2014-06-09.
10. "Kushal Das – Sitar". Retrieved 2014-06-09.