Nikhil Ghosh
Pt. Nikhil Ghosh | |
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| Born | 28 December 1918 Barisal,East Bengal, British India |
| Died | 3 March 1995(aged 76) India |
| Occupation(s) | Musician music teacher author |
| Known for | Tabla |
| Children | Nayan Ghosh,Dhruba Ghosh,Tulika Ghosh |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan Award |
Pandit Nikhil Jyoti Ghosh[1](28 December 1918 – 3 March 1995) was an Indian musician, teacher and writer, known for his proficiency in the percussion instrument oftabla.[2]He foundedSangit Mahabharati,an institution of music in 1956, and performed on various stages in India and abroad.[3]A recipient of theUstad Hafiz Ali Khan Award,his style was known to have been aligned with the Delhi, Ajrada, Farukhabad, Lucknow and Punjabgharanasof music. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of thePadma Bhushan,in 1990, for his contributions to Music.[4]
Biography
[edit]Nikhil Ghosh was born on 28 December 1918 in the small village ofBarisal,inEast Bengal(present-day Bangladesh) ofBritish Indiaas the younger brother ofPannalal Ghosh,a known flautist ofHindustani classical music.[5][6]After early training in music from his father, Akshay Kumar Ghosh, who was a locally knownsitarist,he trained in vocals and tabla under several noted musicians such asAhmed Jan Thirakwa,Amir Hussain Khan andJnan Prakash Ghosh,and started performing on stage accompanying some of the notable musicians of his time, which includedFaiyaz Khan,Hafiz Ali Khan,Allauddin Khan,Omkarnath Thakur,Bade Ghulam Ali Khan,Amir Khan,Pannalal Ghosh,Ravi Shankar,Ali Akbar Khan,Vilayat Khan,Bhimsen Joshi,Nikhil Banerjee,Vasant Rai,Jasraj,Amjad Ali KhanandShiv Kumar Sharma.[3]
Ghosh founded Sangit Mahabharati, a school dedicated for classical music education in 1956.[3]Here, he tutored several aspiring musicians, some of which have already made their names in Indian classical music; Aneesh Pradhan, Eknath Pimpale, Datta Yande, Karodilal Bhatt, Gert Wegner and Keith Manning are some of the notable ones among them.[7]He also trained his sons,Nayan Ghoshand Dhruba Ghosh[8]on Tabla and Sarangi respectively as well as his daughter, Tulika Ghosh,[9]on vocals.[7]all of them assist him in teaching at the school.[8][10]
Ghosh performed on many stages in India and abroad and performed solo at music festivals ofAldeburgh(1958),Edinburgh(1958),Bratislava(1980, 1982),Helsinki(1985),Rome(1985),Athens(1985) and atUNESCO,Paris in 1978.[3]He also served as a visiting faculty of music at many universities. He made improvements in the conventional music notation system and wrote a book detailing his system under the title,Fundamentals of Raga and Tala: With a New System of Notation.[11]Later, he also supplemented the book with anotherManuscript Bookfor easy notation. This was followed by the seminal work,The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India,with author credit going to his music school, Sangit Mahabharati.[12]
The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of thePadma Bhushanin 1990[4]and he received theUstad Hafiz Ali Khan Awardin 1995. He was married to Usha Nayampally, the marriage taking place in 1955. He died on 3 March 1995, at the age of 76, survived by his wife and three children.[3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2001). "Ghosh, Nikhil Jyoti".Grove Music Online(8th ed.).Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48682.ISBN978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^"About Nikhil Ghosh".Parrikar Library. 2016.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^abcde"Founder".Sangit Mahabharati. 2016.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^ab"Padma Awards"(PDF).Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 15 October 2015.Retrieved3 January2016.
- ^The Geography of Hindustani Music: The Influence of Region and Regionalism on the North Indian Classical Tradition.2008. pp. 219–.ISBN978-1-109-00342-0.
- ^Kunal Ray (2 November 2013)."Who's interested in a second-hand Zakir Hussain?".The Hindu.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^ab"Artist – Nikhil Ghosh".SwarGanga Music Foundation. 2016.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^ab"Profile".Dhruba Ghosh.com. 2016.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^"The Dramatic Singer".Indian Express. 2 April 2012.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^"The very great master of tabla and sitar".Nasehpur. 2016.Retrieved18 May2016.
- ^Fundamentals of Raga and Tala: With a New System of Notation.N. Ghosh. 1982.
- ^Sangit Bharati (2011).The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India.Oxford University Press. p. 1800.ISBN9780195650983.
External links
[edit]- "Pandit Nikhil Ghosh – Tabla solo – Rela – Tisra jati".YouTube video.Doyen of Farrukhabad. 15 March 2015.Retrieved18 May2016.
- "Ghosh Family Jugalbandi – Rageshree".YouTube video.cenk altiner. 16 May 2008.Retrieved18 May2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (6 May 2016).Master Musicians of India: Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak.Taylor & Francis. pp. 209–.ISBN978-1-135-87396-7.
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