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{{Infobox musical artist<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1934}}<br />
|birth_place =[[West Bengal]]<br />
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|origin = India<br />
|instrument = Tabla<br />
|genre = [[Indian classical music]]<br />
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'''Pandit Sankha Chatterjee''' (born 1934) is an Indian [[tabla]] player.<ref name="FreemanFreeman1996">{{cite book|last1=Freeman|first1=Steve|last2=Freeman|first2=Alan|title=The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoInAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=11 July 2012|date=December 1996|publisher=Audion|page=43}}</ref><ref>http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090321/jsp/opinion/story_10698292.jsp {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405190247/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090321/jsp/opinion/story_10698292.jsp |date=2009-04-05 }}</ref> He studied under three traditional [[Tabla Gharana]] in strict [[Parampara]] tradition.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Born into a musical family in Calcutta, India. His father was a doctor and musical enthusiast, exposing him to formal tuition early in life under [[Ustad Maseet Khan]] of the [[Farukhabad Gharana]] of Tabla. He Studied under Ustad Maseet Khan, Sankha subsequently learnt from his son [[Ustad Keramatulla Khan]] and later from late tabla maestro [[Alla Rakha|Ustad Alla Rakha Khan]] of the Punjab Gharana.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Sankha Chatterjee's style is a blend of three leading Gharanas (schools), the Farukkabad, Punjab and Delhi Gharanas. He still performs and teaches. He divides his time teaching in Berlin and India as his bases and holds workshops across Europe and the United States. In 1984 he taught and performed at the Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati in [[Venice]] alongside sitar player [[Budhaditya Mukherjee]].<br />
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His leading students are amongst some of the leading virtuosos of the younger generation of tabla players such as [[Gouri Shankar Karmakar]], [[Subhojyoti Guha]], [[Amit Chatterjee]], Mihir Kundu, Friedemann Zintel and Federico Sanesi.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
His elder daughter [http://www.sangeeta.info/ Vidushi Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay][[Global Indian Music Academy Awards|GIMA]] nominated, is a leading classical vocalist of the Lucknow, Patiala and Indore [[Gharana]] of Indian classical [[Sangeet (music)|sangeet]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*http://www.tabla-berlin.com/<br />
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