About Sangeet Milon
About Sangeet Milon
Sangeet Milon,Bharatiya Sangeet Shodh Evam SanrakshanSansthan is dedicated to the promotion of indian classical music and culture.
Our mission is to form a Gurukul Shikshan Sansthan where students will be taught in lines of guru-shishya parampara– teaching them finer nuances and gayaki styles of classical and semi classical music.
Encouraging, sponsoring, scholarship to needy, meritorious students of music, who wish to pursue the subject and provide them with a platform to bring their talent to the forefront.
To hold All India Annual Music Competitions of both classical, semiclassical vocal and instrumental music. To organise cultural programmes, seminars and workshops from time to time for discussion and promotion of classical and semi classical music.
Felicitation of senior, eminent doyens of music who may have retired from their active field. Promoting research and development of new thoughts and ideas in the field of music.
Founder
Milon Debnath, born on April 6, 1954, in Coomilla district of Bangladesh spent his childhood and early years in Agartala, Tripura. His early education in music were from his father, Late Sri DuniChand Debnath and his elder brother Late Sri Vidhu Bhushan Debnath. Having completed his Visharad from Agartala in 1975, he came to Lucknow in 1979 for advanced training in Indian Classical Music from Bhatkhande Music Institute , Lucknow . He was awarded Sangeet Nipun degree from the same institute in 1981. . He took his formal training from renowned Indian Classical vocalists, Ustad Niyaz Ahmed and Faiyaz Ahmed Khan of Kirana Gharana in Bombay in the year 1980.
During the course of training in Bhatkhande Music Academy, he felt certain inadequacies in the existing teaching methodology and this inspired the creation of the book “Sangeet Milon” Part I and II. This text book of music covers the syllabus till Nipun degree. It is based on “Guru Shishya Parampara” principle. In 1999 he brought out Sangeet Milon Part III which is a critical analysis of Bhatkhande’s collection of Kramik Pustak Maalika Part I to VI.
Inspired by the ethics of “Guru Shishya Parampara” a music school was established in C–1036/37, Mahanagar,Lucknow and to assist in its development an organization “Sanskriti” was founded in the year 1990. In the year 2000 , he brought out Sangeet Sankalan in 3 volumes which is a compilation of selected bandishes from the 6 volumes of Kramik Pustak Maalika authored by Pt. Vishnu Narain Bhatkhande, and bandishes from the works of Pt. SN Ratanjankar, Pt. Dinkar Kaikini & Pt. GN Natu. In these three volumes sections on each raga is complete with songs, ‘swar vistaras’, and ‘taan’ which give a complete picture of the raga and are greatly helpful to teachers and students initiated into the world of music.
He presently resides in C-1036/37 Mahanagar, Lucknow.
Our Executive Committee
Patron in Chief
Dr Gourdas Choudhuri, Gurgaon
Chairman, Dept of Gastroenterlogy &
Hepatobiliary Sciences, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon &
Former HOD of Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow
Patron & Advisor
Surendra Kumar Jaiswal, Lucknow
Prominent name in hotel industry being the President of UP Hotel
& Restaurant Association. Vice President of Federation of Hotel &
Restaurant Association of India. Honorary Secretary of Hotel & Restaurant
Association of Northern India and also in theBoard of Governor of FIHM Noida
Sunil Srivastava, Mumbai
Former Deputy Managing Director of State Bank of India and a patron
of classical arts.
Dr Saubhagya Vardhan, Chandigarh
Former Director of NZCC and mentor of Sangeet Milon
VidushiMeena Banerjee, Kolkata
Music critic and musicologist and is closely associated with Sangeet
Milon since its inception
Kajal Ghose, Mumbai
Former Chief General Manager of State Bank of India and closely
associated with Sangeet Milon right from the beginning.
Pt Shirish R Shah, Mumbai
Businessman, Sitar Artist and mentor of Sangeet Milon
Founder & President
Pt Milon Debnath, Lucknow
Founder of the organisation, Musicologist
& Author of Sangeet Milon & Sangeet Sankalp.
Vice President
Arundhati Choudhuri, Lucknow
Educationist with passionate
involvement in classical music
Dr Nishtha Sharma, Agra
Assistant Professor in Music Faculty,MGPG College, Firozabad
Expertise in vocal music, Bharatnatyam Dance form & Theatre
Secretary
Anjana Mishra, Lucknow
Author, poet and litterateur in Hindi language
Joint Secretary
Madhur Bhatnagar, Lucknow
Former Faculty of Loreto College, Lucknow and music lover
Ashish Narayan Tripathi, New Delhi
Classical vocal artist and Founder of Swarveni Academy, New Delhi
Treasurer
Manjula Roye, Mumbai
Specialised in classical art
Rajesh Ojha, Lucknow
Expertise in management and fond of music
Secretary Events
Panchali Deb Barma, Agartala
Asst Director, Sepahijala, District Information & Cultural Affairs Offices
Expertise in field of Culture of North East
Shankar Sen, Agartala
Classical music artist
Dr Sukalpa Mukherjee, Varanasi
Faculty of Sunbeam School Varanasi and a classical music expert.
Sqn Leader Rakhi Agarwal, (Retd) Lucknow
Classical music expert
Ravi Goswami, Lucknow
Formerly of Sangeet Natak Akademi, Lucknow
Program Management
Deepak Kr Saha
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