#darbarfestival | North Indian tabla meets South Indian mridangam for a special percussion duet, where two master musicians trade Hindustani and Carnatic rhythms.
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Patri Satish Kumar is one of India’s leading mridangam players, known for fine dynamic control and architectural solo phrasings. First inducted into music by his violinist mother, who noticed his talent at tapping his school lunchbox in rhythm, he went on to study under three Andhra Pradesh gurus - S Ramachandramurthy, VA Swami and V Narasimham. He credits his teachers with broadening his mind, recounting that they never set him ambitious goals beyond immersing into the music as fully as he could.

He says that “the mridangam chose me and not the other way around”. But it was on kanjira that he got his early break, reasoning that it would allow him to accompany top mridangam artists and perhaps fill in for them on occasion. It worked - he was soon accepted as a mridangam accompanist, and has now worked with almost all of today’s top Carnatic artists. He has worked in jazz settings too, and his ‘Dancing Drums’ project involves a large ensemble of layered percussion instruments. But his forays into fusion have not diluted his classical playing, which still forms the focal point of his stellar career. Listen to more of him here:
-Mridangam Grooves on the Beach | [ Ссылка ]
-Tani Avartnam | [ Ссылка ]
-Dons of Percussion Trio | [ Ссылка ]
-Mridangam Talk | [ Ссылка ]

Subhankar Banerjee’s eclectic style of tabla is the result of permanently open ears. His mother Kajalrekha was a singer-composer, who started him on tabla aged four and supported him in his musical journey. He trained in the Benares gharana under Manik Das before an extended apprenticeship in the Farukhabad gharana under Swapan Shiva (“his ruthlessly frank criticism, that too during live stage concerts, hurt me; but compelled to see the finer nuances…”).

His expansive rhythmic imagination has led to a range of top accompaniment slots, as well as performances with the London Symphony Orchestra and jazz masters including John McLaughlin. He has also played for Hollywood films, and performed at the Nobel peace Prize ceremony. For him music is a direct endeavour, expressing one’s life force through sound (“it starts with an endless passion for music, for awake, for discovery, for people, for life…”). Hear more of Subhankar here:
-Puriya Dhanashree (with Kala Ramnath) | [ Ссылка ]
-Bhairavi (with Niladri Kumar) | [ Ссылка ]
-Kabir Bhajan (with Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande) | [ Ссылка ]
-Tani Avartanam (with Arjun Kumar) | [ Ссылка ]

“Since childhood, I was exposed to all kinds of music – from Bengali folk, film music, to the most complex of bandishes. The music I play is an amalgam of my experiences and collective influences.” (Subhankar Banerjee)

Recorded at Darbar Festival in 2017, at Italy’s Ravenna Festival (Teatro Alighieri):
-Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
-Subhankar Banerjee (tabla)
-Shashank Subramanyam (bansuri)
-Kushal Das (sitar)

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