Cambridge Ragas: Resonance of Sitar, Slide Guitar, and Tabla
Cambridge Ragas: Resonance of Sitar, Slide Guitar, and Tabla at Cambridge Junction
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Cambridge Ragas: Resonance of Sitar, Slide Guitar, and Tabla: Mehboob Nadeem
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About the show
Cambridge Ragas presents two Hindustani instrumental pairings at Cambridge Junction as part of Kala Festival 2026. The programme brings sitar, Indian slide guitar, Brij Veena and tabla together across two concert sets.
Featuring - Mehboob Nadeem
Widely-respected sitar player who is acknowledged as one of the most accomplished of the present generation. Born into a highly illustrious family of traditional musicians of the Agra Gharana and taught by world renowned sitar maestro Pandit Arvind Parikh, he has enthralled audiences all over India, East Africa, and Europe with his truly unique and inspiring performance style.
Debasis Chakroborty
Debasis Chakroborty (born 9 June 1961) is an Indian classical slide guitar player from Senia-Maihar Gharana.
Chakroborty was born in Calcutta, India, and began learning guitar from his father Sh. Madhusudan Chakroborty. He then came under the tutelage of guitarist Pandit Barun Kumar Pal from Kolkata, and Pandit Jotin Bhattacharya, a sarod player and senior disciple of Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan Sahib of Maihar Gharana. Later on, Debasis became a disciple of the guitarist Pundit Brij Bhushan Kabra.
Debasis's style of playing combines both Gayaki and Tantrakari Angs. He follows the oldest tradition of playing sarode, sitar and veena with his modified Hawaiian guitar, which has a three-octave range.
He is an "A" grade artiste of Prasar Bharati in both Hindustani Classical and light music,[2] and performed in the National programme. He is an ICCR empanelled artiste under the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. He has performed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia as visiting faculty and artist in residence.[3] At present, he lectures in the Department of Music, Institute of Visual Performing Arts & Research, Mangalayatan University in Aligarh.