Attended a concert of Sapan Anjaria (Tabla) accompanied by Siddhesh Bicholkar (Lehra-Harmonium, disciple of Pt. Tulsidas Borkar) at 39th Sangeet Samrat Alladiyakhan music festival on 9th April 2016 with Ravi.
Sapan Anjaria (Benaras Gharana) hails from Ahmadabad and is disciple of Pt. Nandan Mehta, Pt. Puran Maharaj, Rajal Shah & Hetal Mehta Joshi.
Chosen Taal of the concert was Teen taal (तीन ताल). Concert started with a beautiful piece of harmonium by Siddhesh.
Sapan presented tihai's (तिहाई), Anaghat (अनाघात) and Atit (अतित). Next was a peshkar (पेशकार) starting from a different bol on Tabla (तबला / दायाँं) while keeping same weight (वजन) of dagga (डग्गा / बायाँं). It sounded good.
He then presented an interesting Gat (गत) and followed it up with a Farmaishi Chakradhar (फर्माईशी चक्रधर) where same gat was converted into Farmaishi Chakradhar by his Guru Pt. Nandan Mehta.
Then he presented a Tipalli (तिपल्ली) followed by a Tukda (तुकडा). It was followed by rachana of Pt. Kishan Maharaj, a Farmaishi Chakradhar Tukda (फर्माईशी चक्रधर तुकडा).
Concert ended with two more Rachana one of which was Chakradhar (चक्रधर).
Sapan has a forceful Tabla playing style. He is confident and knows what he is going to play and achieve. His presentation of Kayda (कायदा), tukda (तुकडा) and rela (रेला) was good. He is young (may be in his mid twenties) and promising.
Siddhesh is master of harmonium. His lehra was impeccable. I think he played lehra in Raag Todi.
Attendance was @ 70 and concert lasted for little less than one hour.
Trivia: Banaras Gharana Tablaji's play Tabla in Veerasan (वीरासन) and so did Sapan, who is a mechanical engineer.
Entertainment rating 8.25/10.
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