SAPTAK Annual Festival 2011 – TARPANA (01-1 till 13-1-2011)

The famous Russian composer and concert pianist Sergei Rachmaninov had once said that, “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” To delve deeper into the world of music, a group of performers and music connoisseurs in Ahmedabad started on a journey in 1980 The quest was to connect with all those who were associated with Indian classical music – as a performer, as a student or as a rasika (listener). The initiative had the blessings of two legends of Indian Classical Music – Pt. Ravishankar and Pt. Kishan Maharaj. Nearly 30 years later, the spark of inspiration continues to burn bright, lighting up the path for newer initiatives that continue to evolve.

Saptak annual festival of music
The annual festival of music organised by Saptak from the 1st to 13th of January every year, is a musical feast that is the delight of any music connoisseur. This celebration of music is quite a unique experience in itself. The evening’s performance always begins with an emerging talent. With several luminaries in the audience, this is a grand stage for the young performer.

As the evening progresses, some of the most renowned performers in Indian classical music take the stage. The rasikas often leave in the early hours of the morning with a Raag Baghesri, Malkauns or Lalit still humming in their ears.

Essence of Raag Lalit by Ustaad Rashid Khan (02:24 minutes)

(Source: Know Your Raaga @ Saptak.org)

SAPTAK is a celebration of music in its purest form. There are no tickets, no reservations, and one gets to be in the hall only through invitation. With the hall brimming over with highly knowledgeable and sensitive music connoisseurs, the performers are motivated to put forth their best performance at Saptak.

What makes the annual fare a memorable one is that it scales over popular demands to provide a rich bouquet of experience. While the audience gets treated to vintage khayal performances from the established maestros, they also have an opportunity to experience the dhrupad gayaki, thumris, rajasthani folk music, instrumental recitals of sitar, sarangi, flute, the mohan veena, rudra veena and percussion recitals on the tabla, pakhawaj and even the mridangam by the great contemporary musicians and musical experimentations of fusion . With nearly 125 top artistes and about 50 performances spread over 13 days (15 Baithaks including 2 morning baithaks), the music lovers from all over India and abroad converge at the Saptak music festival for an unparalleled experience.

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Saptak Annual Festival 2011 – Tarpana (01-1-2011 till 13-1-2011) No Artist Name Instrument / Vocal Event Date Event Time 1 Saptak Instrumental Ensemble: (in two parts) 01-1-11 08:00:PM Master Adit Ravi Flute Solo Shri Sapan Anjaria Tabla Shri Kabirdan Gadhvi Tabla         2 Ms.Hetal Nandan Mehta Tabla   Duet       Shri Ravishankar Upadhyay Pakhawaj           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         3 Shri Ritesh Mishra Vocal           Shri Rajneesh Mishra Vocal           Shri Arvind Azad Tabla           Ms. Paromita Mukherjee Harmonium         4 Pt.Birju Maharaj Kathak           Sushri Shashwati Sen Kathak           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla           Shri Somnath Mishra Vocal           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi           Shri Shreyas Dave Flute               1 Shri Niraj Parikh Vocal     02-1-11 10:00:AM   Shri Abhishek Parikh Vocal           Shri Matang Parikh Tabla           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         2 Shri Purbayan Chatterjee Sitar           Shri Shubh Maharaj Tabla         3 Pt.Ulhas Kashalkar Vocal           Pt. Suresh Talwalkar Tabla           Ms Paromita Mukherji Harmonium           Shri Sarwar Hussain Sarangi         4 Shri Emu Desai Mandolin       08:00:PM   Shri Nakul Mishra Tabla         5 Shri Arvind Parikh Sitar           Shri Anutosh Degharia Tabla         6 Pt. Anindo Chatterjee Tabla           Shri Anubrata Chatterjee Tabla           Shri ShishirChandra Bhatt Hamonium           Shri Iliyas Khan Sarangi         7 Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty Vocal           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla           Shri Ajay Joglekar Harmonium               1 Smt. Viraj Amar Vocal     03-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Jajwalya Shukla Tabla           Ms. Paromita Mukherjee Harmonium         2 Shri Alam Khan Sarod           Shri Anubrata Chatterjee Tabla         3 Shri Shaukat Hussain Khan Vocal           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla           Shri Raju Gandharva Harmonium         4 Ustad Shujat Khan Sitar   Duet       Shri Shashank Subramaniam Flute           Pt. Kumar Bose Tabla           Shri Satish Kumar Mridangam               1 Saptak School Tabla     04-1-11 08:00:PM 2 Pt.Krishnamohan Bhatt Sitar           Shri Shubh Maharaj Tabla         3 Smt.. Vasundhara Komkali Vocal           Sushri .Kalapini Komkali Vocal           Shri Sanjay Deshpande Tabla           Shri Milind Kulkarni Harmonium         4 Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Flute           Shri Vijay Ghate Tabla               1 Shri Shirish Pandit Vocal     05-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Munjal Mehta Tabla           Shri Kishore Kunte Harmonium         2 Ustad Shamim Ahmed Sitar           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla         3 Shri Umakant Gundecha Dhrupad           Shri Ramakant Gundecha Dhrupad           Shri Akhilesh Gundecha Pakhawaj         4 Pt. Shivkumar Sharma Santoor           Ustad Zakir Hussain Tabla               1 Sushri Purvi Parikh Vocal     06-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Anutosh Degharia Tabla           Shri Yameen Khan Harmonium         2 Shri Ayaan Ali Khan Sarod           Shri Satyajit Talwalkar Tabla         3 Pt. Pooran Maharaj Tabla Solo           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium         4 Smt Shubha Mudgal Vocal           Shri Aneesh Pradhan Tabla           Shri Sudhir Nayak Harmonium               1 Shri Vikas Parikh Vocal     07-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Pravin Shinde Tabla           Shri Sudhir Yardi Harmonium         2 Shri Nihar Mehta Tabla Solo           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi         3 Shri Kartik Sheshadri Sitar           Shri Satyajit Talwalkar Tabla         4 Ustad Rashid Khan Vocal           Shri Shubhankar Banerjee Tabla           Ustad Mehmud Dhaulpuri Harmonium               1 Ustad Aslam Khan Vocal     08-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Nakul Mishra Tabla           Shri Amit Thakker Harmonium           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi         2 Shri Basant Kabra Sarod           Shri Himanshu Mahant Tabla         3 Ms. Trupti Mukherjee Vocal           Ms.Hetal Nandan Mehta Tabla           Shri Mukund Petkar Harmonium         4 Shri Fazal Qureshi Tabla           Shri Bhavani Shankar Pakhawaj           Shri Shridhar Parthasarthy Mridangam           Shri Sabir Khan Sarangi               1 Shri Mahendra Toke Vocal     09-1-11 10:00:AM   Shri Hemant Joshi Tabla           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         2 Shri Rahul Sharma Santoor           Shri Sandeep Das Tabla         3 Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar Dhrupad           Shri Praveen Arya Pakhawaj         4 Shri Sabir Khan Sarangi       08:00:PM   Shri Hanif Khan Tabla         5 Shri Srinivas Joshi Vocal           Shri Sanjay Deshpande Tabla           Shri Sudhir Yardi Harmonium         6 Shri Amaan Ali Khan Sarod           Shri Vijay Ghate Tabla         7 Begum Parveen Sultana Vocal           Shri Mukund Rajdev Tabla           Ustad Mehmud Dhaulpuri Harmonium               1 Shri Prakash Shah Vocal     10-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Vinod Vaishnav Tabla           Shri Raju Gandharva Harmonium         2 Shri Kadar Khan Tabla   Solo       Shri Imran Khan Tabla           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi         3 Shri Salil Bhatt Satvik Veena           Shri Prithviraj Mishra Tabla         4 Release of book on the life of late Pt.Nandan             Mehta written by Shri Atul Desai by Pt. Jasraj           5 Pt. Jasraj Vocal           Shri Ratan Mohan Sharma Vocal           Shri Vikas Parikh Vocal           Shri Shanank Subramaniam Flute           Ms.Hetal Nandan Mehta Tabla           Shri Sridhar Parthasarthy Mridangam           Shri Mukund Petkar Harmonium               1 Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan Vocal     11-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Prithviraj Mishra Tabla           Shri Yameen Khan Harmonium           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         2 Ms.Kala Ramnath Violin           Shri Akram Khan Tabla         3 Prof. Yashpal Vocal           Ustad Faiyaz Khan Tabla           Ustad Moinuddin Khan Sarangi         4 Ustad Shahid Parvez Sitar           Shri Akram Khan Tabla               1 Shri Satish Vyas Santoor     12-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Mukund Rajdev Tabla         2 Shri Sushil Bhavsar Vocal           Shri Ashok Shah Vocal           Shri Vasishth Shastri Tabla           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium           Shri Rafiq Khan Violin         3 Pt.Ronu Majumdar Flute           Shri Arvind Azad Tabla         4 Pt Rajan Mishra Vocal           Pt. Sajan Mishra Vocal           Pt. Kumar Bose Tabla           Shri Dharamnath Mishra Harmonium               1 Shri Sapan Anjaria Tabla   Solo 13-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Yameen Khan Harmonium         2 Ms Suchismita Das Vocal           Shri Shadab Roshanbharti Tabla           Shri Raju Gandharva Harmonium           Shri Iliyas Khan Sarangi         3 Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt Mohan Veena           Assisted by :             Smt. Amita A. Dalal Sitar           Shri Ramkumar Mishra Tabla         4 Pt. A Hariharan Vocal           Shri Shadab Roshanbharti Tabla           Shri Akhlakh Harmonium           Shri Ashwin Shrinivasan Flute           Shri Sanjoy Das Guitar         5 Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt & Pt. A.Hariharan Jugalbandi                 Event Venue : Kashiram Hall, B/H L.D. Eng. Hostel, Ahmedabad

Other Saptak Events

Apart from the annual festival, Saptak also organises a week long Saptak Sankalp Saptah Festival to showcase and promote emerging talents alongwith accomplished, senior Gurus. Shorter festivals to celebrate various seasons such as Vasant (spring) and Varsha (monsoon) are also organised by Saptak.

(Source: 12/2010 – Saptak.org)

Impressions from the Saptak 2006

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Manju Mehta (Sitar) – Saptak 1999

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Event :: Saptak Annual Festival 2011 – Tarpana(01-1-2011 To 13-1-2011) No Artist Name Instrument / Vocal Event Date Event Time 1 Saptak Instrumental Ensemble: (in two parts)       01-1-11 08:00:PM   Master Adit Ravi Flute Solo           Shri Sapan Anjaria Tabla           Shri Kabirdan Gadhvi Tabla         2 Ms.Hetal Nandan Mehta Tabla   Duet       Shri Ravishankar Upadhyay Pakhawaj           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         3 Shri Ritesh Mishra Vocal           Shri Rajneesh Mishra Vocal           Shri Arvind Azad Tabla           Ms. Paromita Mukherjee Harmonium         4 Pt.Birju Maharaj Kathak           Sushri Shashwati Sen Kathak           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla           Shri Somnath Mishra Vocal           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi           Shri Shreyas Dave Flute               1 Shri Niraj Parikh Vocal     02-1-11 10:00:AM   Shri Abhishek Parikh Vocal           Shri Matang Parikh Tabla           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         2 Shri Purbayan Chatterjee Sitar           Shri Shubh Maharaj Tabla         3 Pt.Ulhas Kashalkar Vocal           Pt. Suresh Talwalkar Tabla           Ms Paromita Mukherji Harmonium           Shri Sarwar Hussain Sarangi         4 Shri Emu Desai Mandolin       08:00:PM   Shri Nakul Mishra Tabla         5 Shri Arvind Parikh Sitar           Shri Anutosh Degharia Tabla         6 Pt. Anindo Chatterjee Tabla           Shri Anubrata Chatterjee Tabla           Shri ShishirChandra Bhatt Hamonium           Shri Iliyas Khan Sarangi         7 Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty Vocal           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla           Shri Ajay Joglekar Harmonium               1 Smt. Viraj Amar Vocal     03-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Jajwalya Shukla Tabla           Ms. Paromita Mukherjee Harmonium         2 Shri Alam Khan Sarod           Shri Anubrata Chatterjee Tabla         3 Shri Shaukat Hussain Khan Vocal           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla           Shri Raju Gandharva Harmonium         4 Ustad Shujat Khan Sitar   Duet       Shri Shashank Subramaniam Flute           Pt. Kumar Bose Tabla           Shri Satish Kumar Mridangam               1 Saptak School Tabla     04-1-11 08:00:PM 2 Pt.Krishnamohan Bhatt Sitar           Shri Shubh Maharaj Tabla         3 Smt.. Vasundhara Komkali Vocal           Sushri .Kalapini Komkali Vocal           Shri Sanjay Deshpande Tabla           Shri Milind Kulkarni Harmonium         4 Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Flute           Shri Vijay Ghate Tabla               1 Shri Shirish Pandit Vocal     05-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Munjal Mehta Tabla           Shri Kishore Kunte Harmonium         2 Ustad Shamim Ahmed Sitar           Shri Yogesh Samsi Tabla         3 Shri Umakant Gundecha Dhrupad           Shri Ramakant Gundecha Dhrupad           Shri Akhilesh Gundecha Pakhawaj         4 Pt. Shivkumar Sharma Santoor           Ustad Zakir Hussain Tabla               1 Sushri Purvi Parikh Vocal     06-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Anutosh Degharia Tabla           Shri Yameen Khan Harmonium         2 Shri Ayaan Ali Khan Sarod           Shri Satyajit Talwalkar Tabla         3 Pt. Pooran Maharaj Tabla Solo           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium         4 Smt Shubha Mudgal Vocal           Shri Aneesh Pradhan Tabla           Shri Sudhir Nayak Harmonium               1 Shri Vikas Parikh Vocal     07-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Pravin Shinde Tabla           Shri Sudhir Yardi Harmonium         2 Shri Nihar Mehta Tabla Solo           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi         3 Shri Kartik Sheshadri Sitar           Shri Satyajit Talwalkar Tabla         4 Ustad Rashid Khan Vocal           Shri Shubhankar Banerjee Tabla           Ustad Mehmud Dhaulpuri Harmonium               1 Ustad Aslam Khan Vocal     08-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Nakul Mishra Tabla           Shri Amit Thakker Harmonium           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi         2 Shri Basant Kabra Sarod           Shri Himanshu Mahant Tabla         3 Ms. Trupti Mukherjee Vocal           Ms.Hetal Nandan Mehta Tabla           Shri Mukund Petkar Harmonium         4 Shri Fazal Qureshi Tabla           Shri Bhavani Shankar Pakhawaj           Shri Shridhar Parthasarthy Mridangam           Shri Sabir Khan Sarangi               1 Shri Mahendra Toke Vocal     09-1-11 10:00:AM   Shri Hemant Joshi Tabla           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         2 Shri Rahul Sharma Santoor           Shri Sandeep Das Tabla         3 Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar Dhrupad           Shri Praveen Arya Pakhawaj         4 Shri Sabir Khan Sarangi       08:00:PM   Shri Hanif Khan Tabla         5 Shri Srinivas Joshi Vocal           Shri Sanjay Deshpande Tabla           Shri Sudhir Yardi Harmonium         6 Shri Amaan Ali Khan Sarod           Shri Vijay Ghate Tabla         7 Begum Parveen Sultana Vocal           Shri Mukund Rajdev Tabla           Ustad Mehmud Dhaulpuri Harmonium               1 Shri Prakash Shah Vocal     10-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Vinod Vaishnav Tabla           Shri Raju Gandharva Harmonium         2 Shri Kadar Khan Tabla   Solo       Shri Imran Khan Tabla           Shri Allarakha Kalavant Sarangi         3 Shri Salil Bhatt Satvik Veena           Shri Prithviraj Mishra Tabla         4 Release of book on the life of late Pt.Nandan             Mehta written by Shri Atul Desai by Pt. Jasraj           5 Pt. Jasraj Vocal           Shri Ratan Mohan Sharma Vocal           Shri Vikas Parikh Vocal           Shri Shanank Subramaniam Flute           Ms.Hetal Nandan Mehta Tabla           Shri Sridhar Parthasarthy Mridangam           Shri Mukund Petkar Harmonium               1 Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan Vocal     11-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Prithviraj Mishra Tabla           Shri Yameen Khan Harmonium           Shri Ikram Khan Sarangi         2 Ms.Kala Ramnath Violin           Shri Akram Khan Tabla         3 Prof. Yashpal Vocal           Ustad Faiyaz Khan Tabla           Ustad Moinuddin Khan Sarangi         4 Ustad Shahid Parvez Sitar           Shri Akram Khan Tabla               1 Shri Satish Vyas Santoor     12-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Mukund Rajdev Tabla         2 Shri Sushil Bhavsar Vocal           Shri Ashok Shah Vocal           Shri Vasishth Shastri Tabla           Shri Shishirchandra Bhatt Harmonium           Shri Rafiq Khan Violin         3 Pt.Ronu Majumdar Flute           Shri Arvind Azad Tabla         4 Pt Rajan Mishra Vocal           Pt. Sajan Mishra Vocal           Pt. Kumar Bose Tabla           Shri Dharamnath Mishra Harmonium               1 Shri Sapan Anjaria Tabla   Solo 13-1-11 08:00:PM   Shri Yameen Khan Harmonium         2 Ms Suchismita Das Vocal           Shri Shadab Roshanbharti Tabla           Shri Raju Gandharva Harmonium           Shri Iliyas Khan Sarangi         3 Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt Mohan Veena           Assisted by :             Smt. Amita A. Dalal Sitar           Shri Ramkumar Mishra Tabla         4 Pt. A Hariharan Vocal           Shri Shadab Roshanbharti Tabla           Shri Akhlakh Harmonium           Shri Ashwin Shrinivasan Flute           Shri Sanjoy Das Guitar         5 Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt & Pt. A.Hariharan Jugalbandi                 Event Venue : Kashiram Hall, B/H L.D. Eng. Hostel, Ahmedabad