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RAJIB KARMAKAR

Rajib Karmakar
Birth name	Rajib Karmakar
Genres	Indian classical music
Occupation(s)	Musician composer
Instrument(s)	Sitar vocals
Website	sitarrajib.com

Rajib Karmakar is a Los Angeles based Sitar player and Indian classical music and and World musicperformer, composer and educator originally from Bengal, India. He has performed in India, USA, Canada, France Italy, Switzwerland, for the Ministry of Spain (Spain), the Ottawa Council for Arts (Canada), Boom Festival (Portugal), Festival of India (USA and Canada), NAMM (Los Angeles), Theatre Rogue Du Conservatoire (Montreal), National Arts Center(Ottawa), Straz Center (Tampa), Castello Di Romeo (Italy), Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles) and others.

He is the founder and current director of the Los Angeles International Music and Arts Academy (LAIMA).

received his MFA in Music from California Institute of the Arts

He is the inventor of the Mayur Tantri, the world first double-necked Electric Sitar

== Early life == http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-rajib-karmakar/

Born into a musical family of Bengal, Rajib is a third generation musician. He received a Sitar on his first birthday and actually began learning to play at the age of four from his father Shri Durgadas. He gave his first public performance at the age of six and At the age of 8, performed in front of a large audience for the first time , 10,000 people. As the opening act for his father’s 70 piece orchestra. at the age of 12 he performed in the All India Radio. http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-rajib-karmakar/

He then studied with his guru with Ustad Ghulam Akbar Khan for eight years. And after making an official decision not to attend engineering school and pursue the career of a musicasn enrolling in Banaras Hindu University. Where he met his next Sitar Guru, Pandit Ram Dass Chakrabarty staying with him under the Guru – Shishya tradition (an ancient tradition where the disciple goes to live and learn from his teacher) for six years where he was required to practice the sitar up to 14 hours a day. From then he began to be invited to play regularly in Europe and was exposed to many elements of world music.

Karmakar moved to the united states in after receiving a scholorship to do a masters degree at CalArts. There at Cal Arts he began playing many other varieties of music including A frican, Persian, Balinese, etc. and also started coding and making various musical interfaces

After that he was fortunate enough to be the Gandabandh Sagrid of Ustad Ghulam Akbar Khan son in law of legendary Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan of Rampur Sahswan Gharana where he was first trained in the classical vocal music that forms the foundation of the "gayaki ang" which is much reflected in his playing . Talent, however, is not enough to master the Indian classical tradition, and under the careful tutelage of his father and Ustad Ghulam Akbar Khan, Rajib matured gradually through study, countless hours dedicated to practice (riyaaz) and frequent recitals. His studies led him to Beneras where he received talim from Late Pt. Ramdass Chakravarty and Vidushi Krishna Chakravarty . He also had the proud privilege of having learnt from great musicians like, Pt. Kushal Das & Supriyo Dutta. Presently he is under the guidance of Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan , the world renowned sitarist of Etwah Gharana. Winning many competitions like National and International Youth Festivals, West Bengal State Academy Competition etc. and having received SURMANI from Sur Sringar Samshad, Mumbai and a Sangeet Visharad from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh Rajib is performing frequently in India and abroad including Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland etc. and has given performances in Indian Classical Young Talents Conference,Ganesh Mahotsav, Sanskar Bharati , Radio Popolare , ARS Musica etc. He has three Cds under his name till now . Rajib's versatility has ably adapted his classical knowledge and skill in his fusion projects like FUZORHYTHM(India),LOOP SCIENCE(Germany), NADA NAISSANCE( France) etc. He is the creator of the world's first double necked electric Sitar " MAYUR TANTRI" . Already at this young age he is well appreciated by his audience and critics for his artistic aspects & nuances of diverse gharana styles and a mastery of technical skill. His concerts are always marked for their aesthetic appeal and improvisation blended with a fine command of technical expertise. Rajib is an instrumentalist with an unique musical sense, innovative skills and the touch of swift, agile fingers. Be it at his Indian Classical Music Concerts or his World Music Concerts, he can almost immediately mesmerize the audience of all age barriers. Few memorable achievements: He had performed in various places of India like Delhi , Beneras , Kolkata , Rajasthan , Mumbai , Jharkhand, Ahmedabad etc. and in various places of Europe like Germany , Italy , France ,Switzerland, Spain, Holland , Denmark, U.S.A etc.

Awards & AChevments

2014 • World Music Concert, CalArts, Valencia, CA, January 27 • Concert in India Cultural Center, Tampa, Florida, January 4 • World Music Concert for WNMF Radio, Clearwater, Florida, January 3 2013 • Indian Classical Music and Dance concert in Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts, Valencia, CA, December 9 • Sringara Indian Classical Trio Concert in Festival Yoga sur l’Atlantique, La Rochelle, France, June 1 • Concert in Festsaal der Ayur Veda Klinik, Kassel, Germany, May 18 • Concert in Espacio Rhonda, Madrid, Spain, May 11 • Hip-Hop Connection Festival, Wien, Austria, April 20 • Festival de Papillotes, Brest, France, April 6 2012 • IndiaSphere Diwali festival, Graz, Austria, November 11 • Boom Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, July 28–August 4 • Nada-Naissance Concert, Durgapur, India, March 10 • Concert in Mondial Centrum, Haarlem, Holland, February 11 • Concert in Casa De La India for Ministry of Culture, Valladolid, Spain, March 31 • Concert in Art Base, Brussels, Belgium, March 25 2011 and before • European Yoga Congress, Zinal, Switzerland, August 26, 2011 • Buhne im Burgertreff, Hamburg, Germany, May 7, 2011 • Theatre im Waaghaus, Winterthur, Switzerland, November 27, 2010 • Le Cazard, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 18, 2010 • Theatre Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, November 12, 2010 • Sanskar Bharati Concert, Bokaro, India, April 20, 2008 • Fuzorhythm Concert in Tollygunj Club, Kolkata, India, October 13, 2007 • Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, March 20, 2007 • Ganesh Mahotsav, Varanasi, India, August 20, 2004 • A.I.R (All-India-Radio) Concert, Kolkata, India, February 5, 1998 COMPOSER • Assistant Music Director for Basmati Blues(movie), 2014 • Wahh, Florida, USA, 2014–present • Muzocean, India, 2012–present • Nadanaissance, France, 2011–present • Fuzorhythm, India, 2006–2010

https://www.onepointfm.com/en/rajibkarmakar/blog/biography/41740

Career

Shankar won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for West Meets East, a collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin. He opened a Western branch of the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, in May 1967, and published an autobiography, My Music, My Life, in 1968. In 1968, he composed the score for the film Charly.

He performed at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969, and found he disliked the venue. In the late 1960s Shankar distanced himself from the hippie movement and drug culture: He explained during an interview:

It makes me feel rather hurt when I see the association of drugs with our music. The music to us is religion. The quickest way to reach godliness is through music. I don't like the association of one bad thing with the music.