Saptarshi Hazra
Saptarshi Hazra
Sitarist from the Jaipur Senia Gharana
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Saptarshi Hazra is a sitar player from the Jaipur Senia gharana of India. He learned music, starting in early childhood, from Pandit Netai Basu, one of the most committed and talented disciples of Ustaad Mushtaq Ali Khan of the Jaipur Senia gharana. After the demise of Pandit Netai Basu, Saptarshi continued his taalim (training) with the Sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta. Saptarshi performs regularly at musical conferences and cultural organizations throughout India.
As a member of the Senia lineage, Saptarshi plays sitars of the unique and traditional Senia design, which features only 17 frets, instead of the 19-21 fretted sitars that are more common today. His music portrays the unique characters of the traditional Senia baaj (playing style), which derives from certain aspects of the Veena and Dhrupad bases of Indian music. This rich amalgamation, handed down through generations of musicians of the Jaipur Senia lineage, creates the aesthetic uniqueness of the Senia baaj. This baaj puts equal emphasis on the left and the right hand skills. Wave-like rolling and gliding meeends (smooth transitions between notes) are unique features of this baaj, which characterize the distinctive melodious beauty of the Jaipur Senia gharana.
Performing at the Kalankur Music Conference, Pune, Maharashta, 2015. Tabla: Shree Rohit Muzumder.
Highlights
Highlights
At Zenex Valley Music Festival, Kolkata, West Bengal, 2022. Tabla: Pandit Arup Chattopadhyay.
At Shraddhanjali, Kolkata, West Bengal, 2013. Tabla: Shree Indranil Mallick.
A three-day classical music festival organized as a tribute to Pandit Ravishankar. Musical greats Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Ustad Rashid Khan, and Pandit Shubhankar Banerjee also performed here.
At Shraddhanjali, Pandit Ravishankar Memorial Concert, Kolkata, 2013.
From left: Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Saptarshi Hazra, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, and Pandit Shubhankar Banerjee.
At Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral house, Kolkata, West Bengal, 2011. Tabla: Pandit Samar Saha.
At Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 2009. Tabla: Pandit Kishore Misra.
At Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Memorial Sangeet Sangstha, Burnpur, West Bengal, 2013. Tabla: Pandit Shubhankar Banerjee.
At the Parveen Begum Smriti Music and Educational Trust, Bangalore, Karnataka, 2014. Tabla: Ustad Nissar Ahmed Khan.
At Sahitya Kala Mancha, Nigdi, Pune, Maharashtra, 2015. Tabla: Shree Santosh Salve.
At the Aradhana Music Academy Festival, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 2016. With Vidushi Girija Devi.
At the Swar Sadhana Samiti Annual Music Festival, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 2017. Jugalbandi with Nash Naubert (flute). Tabla: Shree Bhushan Parshure.
At the Swaramayee Gurukul, Dr. Prabha Atre Foundation, Pune, Maharashtra, 2017. Tabla: Pandit Arvind Kumar Azad.
At the Kumar Gandharva Festival, Belgaum, Karnataka, 2018. Tabla: Pandit Vinayak Nayek.
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