For Ahmedabad, Saptak is an institution that exists solely for music. It celebrates the Indian classical music tradition, helps one get drenched in its richness, explore its idiom, discover its nuances and preserve its timeless essence.
The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Sankrant’. For Indian classical music it is ‘Sankrant’ as music tradition passes from one generation to another. This year’s programme features such a confluence of generations. Listeners will find it heartening that the classical tradition is vibrant as they watch the making of the new maestros.
The venue for SAPTAK Music Festival 2014 is Amrut Mody School of Management, Opposite IIM A, Ahmedabad.
The schedule for SAPTAK Music Festival 2014 is as follows:
Event Date | No. | Artist Name | Instrument / Vocal |
1st January 2014 | 1. | Shri Pramod Gaikwad | Shehnai |
Mrs. Seema Gaikwad | Shehnai | ||
Ms. Namrata Gaikwad | Shehnai | ||
Shri Himanshu Mahant | Tabla | ||
2. | Pt. Puran Maharaj | Tabla | |
Pt. Ravishankar Upadhyay | Pakhawaj | ||
Shri Shishir Bhatt | Harmonium | ||
3. | Smt. Manju Mehta | Sitar | |
Shri Prithviraj Mishra | Tabla | ||
4. | Pts. Rajan Sajan Mishra | Vocal | |
Shri Rajkumar Mishra | Tabla | ||
Shri Sumit Mishra | Harmonium | ||
Shri Kanaiyalal Mishra | Sarangi | ||
2nd January 2014 | 1. | Students of Saptak School of Music – Shri Sapan Anjaria and Shri Dhruv Kothari | Tabla |
Shri Arun Oza | Harmonium | ||
2. | Shri Mahendra Toke | Vocal | |
Shri Hemant Joshi | Tabla | ||
Shri Sudhir Yardi | Harmonium | ||
3. | Pt. Krishna Mohan Bhatt | Sitar | |
Pt. Anindo Chatterjee | Tabla | ||
4. | Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia | Flute | |
Shri Vijay Ghate | Tabla | ||
3rd January 2014 | 1. | Students of Saptak School of Music, Varsha Gandhi, Amla Shah,Vibhavari Save,Bindu Patel, Vinita Shukla, Anuj Anjaria, Amit Thakker | Instrumental Ensemble |
Shri Pravin Shinde | Tabla | ||
2. | Shri Debashish Bhattacharya | Guitar | |
Ustad Fazal Qureshi | Tabla | ||
3. | Pt. Birju Maharaj Assisted by Sushri Shashwati Sen and Shri Deepak Maharaj | Kathak | |
Shri Utpal Ghoshal | Tabla | ||
Shri Ikram Khan | Sarangi | ||
4th January 2014 | 1. | Students of Saptak School of Music | |
Hui-Chi Goh | Violin | ||
Shri Rahul Kushwaha | Tabla | ||
2. | Shri Vikas Parikh | Vocal | |
Shri Pravin Shinde | Tabla | ||
Shri Sudhir Yardi | Harmonium | ||
3. | Pt. Anindo Chatterjee | Tabla Solo | |
Assisted by Shri Anubrata Chatterjee | Tabla | ||
Shri Sabir Khan | Sarangi | ||
4. | Smt. Shubha Mudgal | Vocal | |
Shri Aneesh Pradhan | Tabla | ||
Shri Sudhir Nayak | Harmonium | ||
5th January 2014 | 1. | Sushri Madhu Bhatt Tailang | Dhrupad |
Shri Pravin Arya | Pakhawaj | ||
2. | Ustad Shahid Parvez | Sitar | |
Ustad Akram Khan | Tabla | ||
3. | Students of Saptak School of Music, Harshit Mehta, Nirav Barot, Raag Mehta | Vocal | |
Shri Shreyans Shah | Tabla | ||
4. | Shri Partho Sarodi | Sarod | |
Shri Shubh Maharaj | Tabla | ||
5. | Ranjani- Gayatri | Carnatic Vocal | |
Shri M. Rajeev | Violin | ||
Shri Delhi Sairam | Mridangam | ||
6. | Ustad Shujat Khan | Sitar | |
Shri Sapan Anjaria | Tabla | ||
Shri Amit Choubey | Tabla | ||
6th January 2014 | 1. | Sushri Amita Dalal | Sitar |
Shri Sapan Anjaria | Tabla | ||
2. | Shri Suman Ghosh | Vocal | |
Shri Pravin Shinde | Tabla | ||
Shri Raju Gandharva | Harmonium | ||
3. | Shri Rahul Sharma | Santoor | |
Shri Ramkumar Mishra | Tabla | ||
4. | Begum Parveen Sultana | Vocal | |
Shri Mukundraj Deo | Tabla | ||
Shri Shrinivas Acharya | Harmonium | ||
7th January 2014 | 1. | Ustad Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa | Tabla Solo |
Assisted by : Shri Shariq Mustafa | Tabla | ||
Shri Ehsan Ali Khan | Sarangi | ||
2. | Shri Kumar Mardur | Vocal | |
Shri Ashish Sengupta | Tabla | ||
Shri Vinay Mishra | Harmonium | ||
Shri Allarakha Kalavant | Sarangi | ||
3. | Pt. Shivkumar Sharma | Santoor | |
Zakir Hussain | Tabla | ||
8th January 2014 | 1. | Students of Saptak School of Music | |
Jaayini Shah and Mauli Dalal | Sitar – Duet | ||
Shri Kabirdan Gadhavi | Tabla | ||
2. | Haji Ustad Shaukat Niazi | Vocal | |
Shri Hemant Joshi | Tabla | ||
Shri Shishir Bhatt | Harmonium | ||
3. | Shri Alam Khan | Sarod | |
Shri Shubh Maharaj | Tabla | ||
4. | Pt. Ajoy Chokrabarty | Vocal | |
Pt. Yogesh Samsi | Tabla | ||
Shri Paromita Mukherjee | Harmonium | ||
9th January 2014 | 1. | Shri Vishal Gori | Tabla Solo |
Shri Ikram Khan | Sarangi | ||
2. | Smt. Monica Shah | Vocal | |
Shri Nakul Mishra | Tabla | ||
Shri Sudhir Yardi | Harmonium | ||
3. | Shri Kushal Das | Sitar | |
Shri Ramdas Palsule | Tabla | ||
4. | Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar | Vocal | |
Shri Rohit Majumdar | Tabla | ||
Shri Vinay Mishra | Harmonium | ||
Shri Allarakha Kalavant | Sarangi | ||
10th January 2014 | 1. | Pt. Ritwik Sanyal | Dhrupad |
Shri Dalchand Sharma | Pakhawaj | ||
2. | Pt. Ronu Majumdar | Flute | |
Shri Prithviraj Mishra | Tabla | ||
3. | Pt. Jasraj | Vocal | |
Shri Ratan Mohan Sharma | Vocal Support | ||
Shri Ramkumar Mishra | Tabla | ||
Shri Sridhar Parthasarathy | Mridangam | ||
Shri Mukund Petkar | Harmonium | ||
11th January 2014 | 1. | Shri Sougato Roychaudhari | Sarod |
Shri Nihar Mehta | Tabla | ||
2. | Sushri Kaushiki Chakrobarty | Vocal | |
Shri Sandip Ghosh | Tabla | ||
Shri Paromita Mukherjee | Harmonium | ||
3. | Shri Rajendra Gangani | Kathak | |
Shri Brijmohan Parihar | Vocal | ||
Shri Fateh Singh | Tabla | ||
Shri Ikram Khan | Sarangi | ||
12th January 2014 | 1. | Shri Vinayak Torvi | Vocal |
Shri Ashish Sengupta | Tabla | ||
Shri Shishir Bhatt | Harmonium | ||
2. | Smt. N. Rajam | Violin | |
Assisted by Ragini Shankar | Violin | ||
Shri Arvind Azad | Tabla | ||
3. | Shri Adit Ravi | Flute | |
Shri Jajwalya Shukla | Tabla | ||
4. | Sushri Jahnavi Phansalkar | Vocal | |
Shri Bimal Bhattacharya | Tabla | ||
Shri Raju Gandharva | Harmonium | ||
5. | Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Mohan Veena | |
Shri Ramkumar Mishra | Tabla | ||
6. | Vidushi Girija Devi | Vocal | |
Pt. Gopal Mishra | Tabla | ||
Shri Sumit Mishra | Harmonium | ||
Shri Bharatbhushan Goswami | Sarangi | ||
13th January 2014 | 1. | Sushri Kumud Diwan | Vocal |
Shri Nakul Mishra | Tabla | ||
Shri Sumit Mishra | Harmonium | ||
Shri Ikram Khan | Sarangi | ||
2. | Shri Shashank Subramanium | Flute | |
Shri Satishkumar Patri | Mridangam | ||
3. | Sushri Amita Sinha Mahapatra | Dhrupad | |
Sushri Aliya Rasheed | Dhrupad | ||
Shri Akhilesh Gundecha | Pakhawaj | ||
4. | Pt. Umakant Gundecha | Dhrupad | |
Pt. Ramakant Gundecha | Dhrupad | ||
Shri Akhilesh Gundecha | Pakhawaj | ||
27th January 2014 | 1. | Students of Saptak School of Music, | |
Tejal Mehta, Jyoti Chanchlani, | Vocal | ||
Dulari Bhatt, Supriya Bhatt | Vocal | ||
Shri Girish Tapodhan | Tabla | ||
2. | Shri Uday Bhawalkar | Dhrupad | |
Shri Pratap Awad | Pakhawaj | ||
3. | Shri Rakesh Chaurasia | Flute | |
Shri Abhijit Pohankar | Classical Keyboard | ||
Shri Satyajeet Talwalkar | Tabla | ||
28th January 2014 | 1. | Smt. Piu Sarkhel | Vocal |
Shri Bimal Bhattacharya | Tabla | ||
Shri Raju Gandharva | Harmonium | ||
2. | Anoushka Shankar | Sitar | |
Shri Tanmoy Bose | Tabla |


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