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| name = Chandra Nath Shastri
| name = Chandra Nath Shastri
| native_name = चंद्रनाथ शास्त्री
| native_name = চন্দ্রনাথ শাস্ত্রী
| image = Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri with Ramesh Mishra Sarangi.jpg
| image = Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri with Ramesh Mishra Sarangi.jpg
| caption = Pandit Chandra with Tabla
| caption = Chandra with Tabla
| image_size =
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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name = Chandra Nath shastri
| birth_name = Chandra Nath shastri
| alias = Pandit Chandranath Shastri Ji
| alias =
| birth_date = 23 December 1948
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|12|23|df=y}}
| origin = [[Calcutta]], West Bengal, India
| origin = [[Calcutta]], West Bengal, India
| instrument = [[Tablā]], [[Khol]], [[Mridangam]]
| instrument = [[Tablā]], [[Khol]], [[Mridangam]]
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| occupation = Classical musician
| occupation = Classical musician
| years_active = 1960–present
| years_active = 1960–present
| label =
| label =
| associated_acts = [[Doordarshan]]
| associated_acts = [[Doordarshan]]
| website = {{URL|panditchandranathshastri.weebly.com|Official website}}
| website = {{URL|panditchandranathshastri.weebly.com|Official website}}
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Pandit '''Chandra Nath Shastri''' ({{lang-hi|चंद्रनाथ शास्त्री}}, {{lang-bn|চন্দ্রনাথ শাস্ত্রী, 23 December 1948), is one of the leading [[tabla]] (Indian hand percussion) artists and musicians from [[India]], currently based in [[Kolkata]].{{citation needed lead|date=May 2017}} He belongs to the [[Benares gharana]] style of [[Hindustani classical music]]. He is a retired staff artist of [[All India Radio]] and performed regularly for public-television broadcaster [[Doordarshan]]. He is also an expert [[astrologer]].<ref name="Official Website">[http://panditchandranathshastri.weebly.com/index.html Official website: Pandit Chandra Nath Shatri]</ref>{{better source|date=January 2018}}
Pandit '''Chandra Nath Shastri''' ({{langx|bn|চন্দ্রনাথ শাস্ত্রী}}, {{langx|hi|चंद्रनाथ शास्त्री}}, 23 December 1948), is a [[tabla]] (Indian hand percussion) musician from [[India]], currently based in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tiwari|first=Aastha|date=2021-12-23|title='Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri|url=https://www.thetalentedindian.com/tabla-tarang-with-pt-chandra-nath-shastri/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=The Talented Indian|language=en}}</ref> He belongs to the [[Benares gharana]] style of [[Hindustani classical music]]. He is a retired staff artist of [[All India Radio]] and performed regularly for public-television broadcaster [[Doordarshan]]. He is also an [[astrologer]].<ref name="Official Website">[http://panditchandranathshastri.weebly.com/index.html Official website: Pandit Chandra Nath Shatri]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref>


==Early life and family==
==Early life and family==


Born in the [[Dhakuria]] area of Calcutta (now Kolkata), [[West Bengal]], in a well-known [[Bramhin]] ([[pandit]]) family, Chandra Nath Shastri was raised in a musical atmosphere. Soon his parents and family relocated to [[Varanasi]] ({{a.k.a.}} Banaras, Benares, Benaras), [[Uttar Pradesh]] (UP), where he undertook training in the [[Benares gharana]] style. He was influenced by poet and lyricist [[Rabindra Nath Tagore]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} His grandmother, Smt. Indira Devi was niece of Rabindra Nath Tagore. His father, Dr. [[Mouli Nath Shastri]], was a physician by profession but he was also a spiritual [[guru]] and musician (tabla player), vocal student of Rabindra Nath Tagore, and had directed and acted in theatre (''Muktisnan'', 1937; ''Sancharini'', 1963).<ref>[http://www.gomolo.com/muktisnan-movie-cast-crew/12998 Muktisnan (1937) Casts by Sushil Majumdar]</ref><ref>[http://www.lyricswale.com/castCrew/19465/Muktisnan.html Muktisnan (film – 1937) Casts]</ref> His grandfather, Shri [[Priya Nath Shastri]], was one of the first three trustees of [[Visva Bharati University]].<ref name="Official Website"/>{{better source|date=January 2018}}
He was born in the [[Dhakuria]] area of Calcutta (now Kolkata), [[West Bengal]], in a [[Bramhin]] family.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}} Soon his parents and family relocated to [[Varanasi]] ({{a.k.a.}} Banaras, Benares, Benaras), [[Uttar Pradesh]] (UP), where he undertook training in the [[Benares gharana]] style. He was influenced by poet and lyricist [[Rabindra Nath Tagore]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref> His grandmother, Smt. Indira Devi was niece of Rabindra Nath Tagore. His father, Mouli Nath Shastri, was a physician but he was also a spiritual [[guru]] and musician (tabla player), vocal student of Rabindra Nath Tagore, and had directed and acted in theatre (''Muktisnan'', 1937; ''Sancharini'', 1963).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gomolo.com/muktisnan-movie-cast-crew/12998 |title=Muktisnan (1937) Casts by Sushil Majumdar |access-date=30 August 2013 |archive-date=4 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204151119/http://www.gomolo.com/muktisnan-movie-cast-crew/12998 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lyricswale.com/castCrew/19465/Muktisnan.html |title=Muktisnan (film – 1937) Casts |access-date=30 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102173402/http://www.lyricswale.com/castCrew/19465/Muktisnan.html |archive-date=2 November 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri with Ramesh Mishra Sarangi.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri on [[Tabla]], accompanied by Pandit [[Ramesh Misra]] with [[Sarangi]], 1972 File Photo, Calcutta]]


==Academics==
==Academics==


Shastri completed his intermediate schooling at [[C. M. Anglo Bengali Inter College]], Varanasi, UP. He then graduated in science from [[Banaras Hindu University]], Varanasi.<ref name="Official Website"/>{{better source|date=January 2018}}
Shastri completed his intermediate schooling at [[C. M. Anglo Bengali Inter College]], Varanasi, UP. He then graduated in science from [[Banaras Hindu University]], Varanasi.<ref name="Official Website"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tiwari|first=Aastha|date=2021-12-23|title='Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri|url=https://www.thetalentedindian.com/tabla-tarang-with-pt-chandra-nath-shastri/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=The Talented Indian|language=en}}</ref>


==Musical career==
==Musical career==


Shastri's father noted his interest in [[Hindustani classical music]] from a very young age and taught him to play some ''[[Tala (music)|taals]]'' on tabla. At age 5 Shastri began learning from his guruji, Pandit [[Anokhelal Mishra]] of [[Banaras]],{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} and later from his son, [[Pandit Ramji Mishra]]. Shastri and his elder brother, Partha Nath Shastri, would go to Pandit AnokhelalJi to learn tabla. Shastri became a fifth-generation tabla maestro of [[Benares gharana]]. As a young teenager he became close to Pandit [[Mahadev Prasad Mishra]], Pandit [[Kishan Maharaj]], Pandit [[Samta Prasad]], Pandit [[Sarda Sahai]], and Ustad [[Karamatullah Khan]].<ref name="Official Website"/>{{better source|date=January 2018}}
Shastri's father noted his interest in [[Hindustani classical music]] from a very young age and taught him to play some ''[[Tala (music)|taals]]'' on tabla. At age 5 Shastri began learning from his guruji, Pandit [[Anokhelal Mishra]] of [[Banaras]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mishra|first=Vijay Shanker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WF3jCwAAQBAJ&dq=pandit+chandra+nath+shastri+tabla&pg=PT297|title=ART AND SCIENCE OF PLAYING TABLA|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=978-81-230-2104-1|language=en}}</ref> and later from his son, Ramji Mishra. Shastri and his elder brother, Nath Shastri, would go to AnokhelalJi to learn tabla. Shastri became a fifth-generation tabla maestro of [[Benares gharana]]. As a young teenager he became close to [[Mahadev Prasad Mishra]], [[Kishan Maharaj]], [[Samta Prasad]], Sarda Sahai, and Karamatullah Khan.<ref name="Official Website"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref>


Chandra Nath Shastri became the champion in an [[All India Radio]] (AIR) national competition at age 23, and from a young age was often referred to by the title ''pandit''. He became an AIR staff artist, Indian National Television Channel ([[Doordarshan]]) artist and also a stage performing artist. As a regular performer on TV, radio and stage, he has made several thousand performances and recordings.<ref name="Official Website"/>{{better source|date=January 2018}} Now he is retired from AIR.{{when|date=January 2018}}
Chandra Nath Shastri became the champion in an [[All India Radio]] (AIR) national competition at age 23, and from a young age was often referred to by the title ''pandit''. He became an AIR staff artist, Indian National Television Channel ([[Doordarshan]]) artist and also a stage performing artist. As a regular performer on TV, radio and stage, he has made several thousand performances and recordings.<ref name="Official Website"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref>


===Performances===
===Performances===


Shastri has performed in many concerts, including tabla solos, percussion ensembles, and accompanied with instrumentalists and vocalists, and worked with numerous music composers and film directors.
Shastri has performed in many concerts, including tabla solos, percussion ensembles, and accompanied with instrumentalists and vocalists, and worked with numerous music composers and film directors. He also performed with [[Mahadev Prasad Mishra]], [[V. G. Jog]], Sagiruddin Khan, [[Rashid Khan (musician)|Rashid Khan]], [[Lalmani Misra]], and [[Buddhadev Das Gupta]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref>
He also performed with musicians including: Pandit [[Mahadev Prasad Mishra]], Pandit [[V. G. Jog]], Ustad [[Sagiruddin Khan]], Ustad [[Rashid Khan (musician)|Rashid Khan]], Pandit [[Lalmani Misra]], Pandit [[Buddhadev Das Gupta]],{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} Pandit [[Shrichand Mishra]], Pandit [[Jnan Prakash Ghosh]], Pandit Rabindra Narayan Goswami, Ustad [[Mushtaq Ali Khan]], Pandit {{ill|Shalil Shankar|de}}, Bidushi Purnima Sen, [[Singh Bandhu Brothers]], Pandit [[V. Balsara]], Pandit [[Ramesh Mishra]], [[Manilal Nag]], [[Tejendra Narayan Majumdar]], [[Debashish Bhattacharya]] and many more.


Shastri judged many musical competitions and talent-hunt contests. He conducted research in Indian music and produced unique works on music, especially in the field of tabla. He is also an expert with [[Pakhawaj]], [[Khol]], [[Mridangam]] and other Indian percussion instruments.<ref name="Official Website"/>{{better source|date=January 2018}}
Shastri judged many musical competitions and talent-hunt contests. He conducted research in Indian music and produced unique works on music, especially in the field of tabla. He also plays [[Pakhawaj]], [[Khol]], [[Mridangam]] and other Indian percussion instruments.<ref name="Official Website"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=On the Rhythms of Tabla|url=https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.thisday.app|language=en}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==


Shastri teaches tabla and other musical instruments, and has taught in many music schools, academies and institutes.<ref>[http://www.rajmusicals.com/teachers-detail.php?id=5029 Tabla Guru]</ref>{{better source|date=January 2018}}
Shastri teaches tabla and other musical instruments, and has taught in many music schools, academies and institutes.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri|date=23 December 2021 |url=https://www.thetalentedindian.com/tabla-tarang-with-pt-chandra-nath-shastri/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226170806/https://www.thetalentedindian.com/tabla-tarang-with-pt-chandra-nath-shastri/ |archive-date=26 December 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Chandra Nath Shastri|url=https://www.veethi.com/india-people/chandra_nath_shastri-profile-12463-24.htm|access-date=2022-01-09|website=veethi.com}}</ref>


Shastri also studies [[spirituality]]. He is also an [[astrologer]].<ref name="Official Website"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tiwari|first=Aastha|date=2021-12-23|title='Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri|url=https://www.thetalentedindian.com/tabla-tarang-with-pt-chandra-nath-shastri/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=The Talented Indian|language=en}}</ref>
Shastri also studies [[spirituality]]. His father, the late Dr. Mouli Nath Shastri, was grand disciple of spiritual guru Sri [[Bijoy Krishna Goswami]] and disciple of [[Sri Kiran Chand Darbesh Ji Maharaj]]. Shastri has researched the connection between music and spirituality and gives advice on this topic. He is also an expert [[astrologer]].<ref name="Official Website"/>{{better source|date=January 2018}}


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://panditchandranathshastri.weebly.com/index.html#BIOGRAPHY Official Website of Chandra Nath Shastri]
*[http://panditchandranathshastri.weebly.com/index.html#BIOGRAPHY Official Website of Chandra Nath Shastri]
*[http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hindi/highlight/page/id/375577/t/Benaras-Gharana-Tabla/in/english SBS Radio, Australia - Broadcast: Interview with Pundit Chandranath Shastri of Banaras Tabla Gharana about the specialty of Benares gharana]
*[http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hindi/highlight/page/id/375577/t/Benaras-Gharana-Tabla/in/english SBS Radio, Australia - Broadcast: Interview with Pundit Chandranath Shastri of Banaras Tabla Gharana about the specialty of Benares gharana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630073943/http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hindi/highlight/page/id/375577/t/Benaras-Gharana-Tabla/in/english |date=30 June 2017 }}
*[http://www.rajmusicals.com/teachers-detail.php?id=5029 About Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri : Raj Musicals]
*[http://www.rajmusicals.com/teachers-detail.php?id=5029 About Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri : Raj Musicals]
*[https://www.thisday.app/en/details/on-the-rhythms-of-tabla About Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri -On the Rhythms of Tabla]
*[https://www.thetalentedindian.com/tabla-tarang-with-pt-chandra-nath-shastri/ ‘Tabla Tarang’ with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri]
*[https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famous-tabla-players/ 12 Famous Tabla Players you Should Know]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=WF3jCwAAQBAJ&dq=pandit+chandra+nath+shastri+tabla&pg=PT297 ART AND SCIENCE OF PLAYING TABLA By Vijay Shanker Mishra]


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Latest revision as of 23:06, 21 October 2024

Chandra Nath Shastri
চন্দ্রনাথ শাস্ত্রী
Chandra with Tabla
Chandra with Tabla
Background information
Birth nameChandra Nath shastri
Born (1948-12-23) 23 December 1948 (age 76)
OriginCalcutta, West Bengal, India
GenresHindustani classical music, Benares gharana
OccupationClassical musician
Instrument(s)Tablā, Khol, Mridangam
Years active1960–present
WebsiteOfficial website

Pandit Chandra Nath Shastri (Bengali: চন্দ্রনাথ শাস্ত্রী, Hindi: चंद्रनाथ शास्त्री, 23 December 1948), is a tabla (Indian hand percussion) musician from India, currently based in Kolkata.[1] He belongs to the Benares gharana style of Hindustani classical music. He is a retired staff artist of All India Radio and performed regularly for public-television broadcaster Doordarshan. He is also an astrologer.[2][3]

Early life and family

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He was born in the Dhakuria area of Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, in a Bramhin family.[citation needed] Soon his parents and family relocated to Varanasi (a.k.a. Banaras, Benares, Benaras), Uttar Pradesh (UP), where he undertook training in the Benares gharana style. He was influenced by poet and lyricist Rabindra Nath Tagore.[4] His grandmother, Smt. Indira Devi was niece of Rabindra Nath Tagore. His father, Mouli Nath Shastri, was a physician but he was also a spiritual guru and musician (tabla player), vocal student of Rabindra Nath Tagore, and had directed and acted in theatre (Muktisnan, 1937; Sancharini, 1963).[5][6]

Academics

[edit]

Shastri completed his intermediate schooling at C. M. Anglo Bengali Inter College, Varanasi, UP. He then graduated in science from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.[2][7]

Musical career

[edit]

Shastri's father noted his interest in Hindustani classical music from a very young age and taught him to play some taals on tabla. At age 5 Shastri began learning from his guruji, Pandit Anokhelal Mishra of Banaras,[8][9] and later from his son, Ramji Mishra. Shastri and his elder brother, Nath Shastri, would go to AnokhelalJi to learn tabla. Shastri became a fifth-generation tabla maestro of Benares gharana. As a young teenager he became close to Mahadev Prasad Mishra, Kishan Maharaj, Samta Prasad, Sarda Sahai, and Karamatullah Khan.[2][10]

Chandra Nath Shastri became the champion in an All India Radio (AIR) national competition at age 23, and from a young age was often referred to by the title pandit. He became an AIR staff artist, Indian National Television Channel (Doordarshan) artist and also a stage performing artist. As a regular performer on TV, radio and stage, he has made several thousand performances and recordings.[2][11]

Performances

[edit]

Shastri has performed in many concerts, including tabla solos, percussion ensembles, and accompanied with instrumentalists and vocalists, and worked with numerous music composers and film directors. He also performed with Mahadev Prasad Mishra, V. G. Jog, Sagiruddin Khan, Rashid Khan, Lalmani Misra, and Buddhadev Das Gupta.[12]

Shastri judged many musical competitions and talent-hunt contests. He conducted research in Indian music and produced unique works on music, especially in the field of tabla. He also plays Pakhawaj, Khol, Mridangam and other Indian percussion instruments.[2][13]

Personal life

[edit]

Shastri teaches tabla and other musical instruments, and has taught in many music schools, academies and institutes.[14][15]

Shastri also studies spirituality. He is also an astrologer.[2][16]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Tiwari, Aastha (23 December 2021). "'Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri". The Talented Indian. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Official website: Pandit Chandra Nath Shatri
  3. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  4. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Muktisnan (1937) Casts by Sushil Majumdar". Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Muktisnan (film – 1937) Casts". Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  7. ^ Tiwari, Aastha (23 December 2021). "'Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri". The Talented Indian. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  8. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  9. ^ Mishra, Vijay Shanker. ART AND SCIENCE OF PLAYING TABLA. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. ISBN 978-81-230-2104-1.
  10. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  11. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  12. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  13. ^ "On the Rhythms of Tabla". www.thisday.app. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  14. ^ "'Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri". 23 December 2021. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Chandra Nath Shastri". veethi.com. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  16. ^ Tiwari, Aastha (23 December 2021). "'Tabla Tarang' with Pt Chandra Nath Shastri". The Talented Indian. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
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