Bhabani Shankar Dasgupta​

Bhabani Shankar Dasgupta is the elder son and disciple of the eminent Sarode maestro Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, the foremost disciple of Pandit Radhika Mohan Moitra. Bhabani received his preliminary lessons from Sri Anil Roy Chowdhury and subsequently came under the tutelage of his father. He made his debut as a Sarode Player at the age of 22 at “Saurav Music Institution”. Since then, he has participated in many prestigious concerts in West Bengal and Assam. He has also performed in duets with his father : at the Russian Consulate Office in Kolkata in 1985 and at the Bhowanipore Sangeet Sammelan in 1986, to the tabla accompaniment of the legendary maestro Pandit Hirendra Kumar Ganguly, to name a few. An M.A. from Jadavpur University, Bhabani is an approved artiste of All India Radio and has performed at Doordarshan Kendra and Akash Bangla TV Channel.