Pandit Nayan Ghosh has the double distinction of being both a sitar and a tabla player. Son and disciple of virtuoso tabla maestro, the late Padmabhushan Nikhil Ghosh, Nayan Ghosh was initiated into tabla and vocal music at a very young age. His grandfather, the Late Pandit Akshay Kumar Ghosh was a sitarist from the Senia Gharana and the renowned flautist Pandit Pannalal Ghosh was his paternal uncle (father’s elder brother). Pandit Nayan Ghosh’s family is recognized for musical scholarship with deep understanding of a wide variety of genres in Hindustani music. Currently, Pandit Nayan Ghosh runs Sangit Mahabharati (SMB), a Mumbai based music and research institution setup by his father that has gained reputation as one of India’s premier academies for grooming performing artists and scholars.

Pandit Nayan Ghosh was groomed by his father, the late Pandit Nikhil Ghosh not only in the art of playing the sitar and tabla but also in other genres of Indian music such as semi-classical and folk music. For over the past two decades, Nayan Ghosh has also been receiving additional guidance in stringed instrumental compositional structures as well as knowledge on rare ragas from the eminent sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta. Having inherited the rich legacy from predecessors of his musical ancestry, Pandit Ghosh has now been playing both the sitar and the tabla for audiences all over the world for several years.

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