About Me

Arindam has been associated and performed with several legends & renowned musicians all over the World with his great dexterity and expertise.He has performed with many Great Maestros like Ustad Aashish Khan, PadmaVibhushan Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Drummer Maestro PadmashreeSivamani,Ustad Shahid Parvez, Ustad Hamid Ali Khan,Vidushi Jaya Biswas, Pandit Kamal Mullick, Ustad Shafique Khan, Pandit Harashankar Bhattacharya, Vidushi Sanjukta Ghosh to name a few. Arindam has also been touring and performing with several renowned Musicians like The Maestros Violin Brothers  Deb Shankar Roy & Jyoti Shankar Roy, Vidwan N.Shankar,Pandit.Partho Sarodi,Prof.Joydeep Ghosh, Pandit. Rajib Chakraborty,Pandit Sugoto Nag, Sree Abhisek Lahiri, Pandit Sanatan Goswami, Sree Debanjan Bhattacharjee, Pt.Subroto Roy Chowdhury, Pt.Anindo Banerjee, Pt.Ajoy Joglekar, Pandit.Snehasish Mozumdar, Guru Giridhari Nayek, Pandit.Pratyush Banerjee, Janab Gulzar Hussain,Sree Sandip Chatterjee, Sree Abhisek Mallick,Smt.Debasmita Bhattacharya, Sree Sujoy Basu, Sree Sounak Chottopadhyay, Sree Deepsankar Bhattacharya, Sree Rohan Dasgupta, Sree Arvind Bhargav, Sree Suvendu Banerjee, Sree Shiraz Ali Khan, Sree Sougata Roychowdhury, Sree Subhronil Sarkar, Sree Smarajit Sen, Sree Abhik Mukherjee, Sree Indradip Ghosh, Sree Rohan Naidu, Dr.Avijit Ghosh,Smt.Pallabi Ghatak, Sree Ramprapanna Bhattacharya, Smt.Sohini Mojumdar,Smt.Rajrupa Chowdhury, Mr.David, Trasoff, Mr.Josh Feignberg, Setsuo Miyashita, Daphne Tse,Dallas Smith,Niki Mukhi,Anandra George,Aleah Gandharvika and many more Artists. He joined PadmaVubhushan Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma's Gifu,Japan santoor workshop as a Tabla accompanist in the year 2015. 

 

 

As a young man, Arindam has lived up to the words and reputations of his Guru mastering the intricacies of Tabla as a Soloist as well as an Accompanist. Honoured with the title of “Taal Mani”, from Mumbai Arindam Chakravarty is an empanelled Artiste of ICCR (Indian Council For Cultural Relations) in the established Artiste Category and EZCC ( Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre), Ministry of Culture, Govt. Of India,he has got National Outstanding Award for Tabla "Gana Yogi Panchakshiri Kala Vikas Puraskar 2015" in Bhimsen Sangeet Utsav, A regular All India Radio and Television Artiste, A recipient of Award Council Of India’s prestigious “Sangeet Gaurav-Pride of West Bengal” samman, An empanelled Artiste of Regional Outreach Bureau from Ministry of Information & Broadcasting-Govt. Of India,A Senior National Scholar from Ministry of Culture, New Delhi as well as “Sangeet Bhaskar” in Tabla achieving 1st Division marks from Pracheen Kala Kendra Chandigarh.

 

Arindam is the 1st ever Tabla Player from India to have performed at WAG Festival in Sarawak, Kuching in 2013.

 

As a Soloist and Accompanist he has participated and performed in several noteworthy Indian and International Music Festivals like Tirupati Balaji Devasthanams Concert, EXPO 2020 Dubai, Emirates NBD Classics in Dubai, The Theatre at the Mall of the Emirates Dubai, Konark Dance & Music Festival, Spic Macay International Convention, Taj Mahotsav in front of Taj Mahal, Bodhi Mahotsav, Belur Math,Ninad Festival, Sur Festival, Baba Aladduin Khan Sangeet Samaroh-Maihar, All Bengal Music Conference-Kolkata, Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra, Raj Bhawan, CP House, Kal Ke Kalakar Sangeet Sammelan-Mumbai, Doverlane Music Conference-Kolkata, Idea Jalsa-Mumbai, Ninad Festival-Patna, Haldia Music Circle, Auroville and Aurobindo Ashram-Pondicherry, Spic Macay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Mumbai, IIM Calcutta, Ramkrishnamission Institute of Culture Golpark-Kolkata, Habitat World & India International Centre-New Delhi, String Festival presented by Live In Series by Sri Bickram Ghosh, Siddha Group & ICCR, Bengal Foundation-Dhaka Bangladesh, WAG Festival-Sarawak Kuching,and concerts and workshops in Japan, Okinawa,Indonesia,Srilanka,Singapore,Malaysia,Thailand to name a few.

 

Arindam has recently performed in one of the biggest concert in Dubai Opera in a fund raising concert for Lebanon.

 

He performed at EXPO in 2022 in Dubai in the biggest Jubilee Stage with Niki Mukhi and other World Musicians.

 

He has performed in some advertisement films in UAE representing Indian Music alongside with other Music instrument players from all over the World.

 

Arindam has also performed with Dia Hassan in a project of Dubai Tourism named as "Visit Dubai".

 

Recently in February 2022 students of different genres of Indian Classical Music and Dance performed under his Direction at the Al Wasl Plaza Dome at EXPO in Dubai.

 

For the First time in UAE Arindam has also launced the All Girls Tabla Ensemble in Dubai in January 2022.

 

As a mark of his true versatility as a Musician Arindam has been performing with renowned bands like “Layavinyas” a Carnatic Hindustani & Western ensemble with Vidwan N.Shankar and imbibed his special innovative approach to music. He has also performed with another band named “Indian Blue” from its very inception.He has also been performing with the"Love Keys" band from Germany.

 

Presently he is the Head of The Department in Instrumental Music in Tabla in Malhaar Centre For Performing Arts in Dubai-UAE. He has trained several students at Gems Heritage Indian School,  Gems New Millennium School and Gems Legacy School  in Dubai.