Vocal recital
by Tanima Thakur
One of the leading Hindustani Classical Vocalists of India, Tanima Thakur was born in Calcutta in a family of great patrons of classical music. She had her initial training under Pdt. Nalinikanta Chakrabarthy. Later she became a disciple of the famous musician and musicologist Padmabhusan Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh. She had also received guidance and training from many great musicians of whom Pdt. K. G. Ginde, Dr. M.R. Gautam and Pdt. Chinmoy Lahiri deserve special mention. TANIMA had shown her extraordinary talent in music at a very early age. She made her debut before public through the AIR Music Competition in which she stood first and received the gold medal from the President of India. Since then she has performed in innumerable concerts throughout the country including Akashvani Sangeet Sammelans and National Programmes of AIR and Doordarshan. She received warm response from the audience during hundreds of concerts in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Holland, Sri-Lanka and Re-Union Island.
A short Review ...
“ Coming from a middle class Bengali Brahmin family, Tanima Thakur surprised the muscical world by her meteoric rise to fame before she was in her twenties she was an AIR artiste and during her muscical career she had over a dozen National programmes in AIR and Doordarshan in her cap. Gifted with a singularly melodious , fluty voice and a muscicality which grasped the audience in a second, she regaled the listeners till her 58th year when she unexpectedly left us, leaving a void in the music world which will be hard to file.”
Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta
