Interpreter of melody

What fuels the musical innovation of 32-year-old Subhasis Sabyasachi Ghosh, who is a pakhawaj player, is his complete dedication to this medium.
Last year when this young musician performed at the Dhrupad Festival at Varanasi, music lovers gave him a standing ovation for playing pakhawaj, with a rare professional ease. His name has now been included in the Limca Book of Records 2011 for playing the pakhawaj by reversing the side while maintaining the rhythm.Asked where he learned this craft from, Subhasis said, “I learned this craft from Acharya Gurudas Ghosh and Sambhunath Bhattacharya.”
Music seems to run in this young man's DNA. When he was a child, he developed an interest in playing tabla. Later on, he decided to learn to play pakhawaj. The role of his parents in instilling in him a love for classical music has been equally paramount. “I want to popularise the use of this musical instrument because young musician should know about it,” says Subhasis.
He is also working on new ragas these days. If that was not enough, this musician has also invented and introduced new instruments like sruti mridangam and barrel electro drum. Recently he held the audience spellbound with his percussion performance at the Triveni Kala Sangam, in which he played the mridangam, drums and tabla. For Subhasis, experiment should be part and parcel of music. And who else can say this better than this young musician who believes in pushing the envelope. Subhasis is busy assisting his guru, Pandit Brojen Biswas in developing a percussion instrument called Brojo Tarang. It is made out of bamboo sticks and sounds like a piano.