Kumar Bose
Pandit Kumar Bose (Bangla পন্ডিত কুমার বোস), born 4 April 1953, is an Indian tabla maestro and composer of Indian classical music. Bose belongs to the Benaras Gharana style of tabla playing. Having learned from Kishan Maharaj, Pandit Bose rose to prominence with his performances with Ravi Shankar. Family. Bose was born in Kolkata in a musical family. His father, Biswanath Bose, a tabla player, taught him his first lessons in rhythm. His mother Vidushi Bharati Bose was a sitarist and disciple of the great Ustad Dabir Khan and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Bharati received several awards in  her career, including recognition as an All India Radio Artist and the President's Award for Best Sitar Performance in 1956. She guided her son with the basic forms of classical music and helped him to groom himself into professional tabla player. His brothers are musicians, who keep a traditional, thorough and vigorous training regime. His brother Acharya Jayanta Bose is an internationally reputed composer, lyrist, harmonium soloist and singer, while his brother Debojyoti Bose is a noted sarod player and music director. Music career. Bose's first teacher was his father. After his father's death, he was taught  by Kishan Maharaj (1923–2008). Performances. Bose gave his first public performance at the age of 4. By 14, he performed abroad and has played at almost every major music halls in the world since. He has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, the Kremlin in Moscow, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall in New York, and at various venues throughout India. He also has the distinction of having performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles as an accompanist to Ravi Shankar. In addition to that, Kumar Bose performed at  the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada in 2019 for the Raag-Mala Music Society of Toronto. CDs released are