Satyaki Banerjee

Satyaki Banerjee is an Indian Bengali composer. Satyaki is a historian by training. He takes a serious academic interest in the music he practices. He studied at Julien Day School, Kolkata, Elgin Road branch. Banerjee has been active since 2005. Satyaki has been part of Parapar since 2005 still, he has also performed independently with Mousumi Bhowmik in concerts at home and abroad, including in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , London, Leeds, Dhaka, and Chittagong. Satyaki is the music director of the 2021 Bengali web series Birohi. He is also a member of the experimental band Borno Anonyo.

He plays instruments like the dotara and the sarod. His performances include both classical and folk culture. He studied the instrument sarod with the late Pandit Dipak Chowdhury and now trains under Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar. He picked up the dotara in the company of practising folk musicians, in akhras and melas. He has evolved a unique style of playing instruments. He is also a self-taught oud and rebab player, besides being a magnificent singer of mostly Bengali mystical poetry, in the baul and kirtan traditions. Satyaki Banerjee has also performed at Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi, in meetings in Music - Moushumi Bhowmik Bio coming soon... >> Read More... , Satyaki Banerjee, and Rosalind Acton in Concert on 13th May 2012.