Jyoti Goho (born 1953) is an Indian Classical Musician from Kolkata, India.[1] He is well known for Harmonium accompaniment.[2] He belongs to Kirana Gharana. He is working in Indian classical music industry from last 40 years and is a Musician Faculty at ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, India.[3]

Early life edit

Jyoti Goho was born on 13 May 1953 in Kolkata, West Bengal to Shri Shyam Sundar Goho & Late Smt Bela Goho. He belongs to a musical family. He completed his school level education from Khudiram Bose Central Collegiate School, Kolkata & college education from Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata. He holds a bachelor's degree in arts.

He was Inspired by his mother’s melodious voice, thus he developed keen interest in music from his childhood, His parents carefully nurtured his interest in Music. He got training in harmonium playing from Shri Deb Kumar Banerjee. He also holds very profound knowledge of Hindustani vocal music in which his Gurus were Pandit A.Kanan,[4] Shri Sanat Banerjee & Shri Biren Bose.

Career edit

Jyoti Goho started performing Live as a Harmonium accompanist in various classical music programme & shows from the year 1976.[5][6]

Jyoti Goho accompanied many times with Pandit Bhimsen Joshi who praised Jyoti Goho as an extremely supportive Harmonium accompanist. Goho has performed in many major music conferences of India & abroad. Some of the countries where he has performed are Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Dubai, Australia and New Zealand, China etc.[7]

Other than Harmonium accompaniment in Live Shows, Jyoti Goho Played Harmonium in many music albums of various artists like Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Ustad Rashid Khan etc.[8]

His son Sourabh Goho is an Indian Tabla Player who performs Hindustani classical music and fusion music.

Awards edit

  • Jnan Prakash Ghosh Award 2014 from Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty
  • Batuk Nandy Smriti Samman 2015[9]
  • Choughule Samman 2014 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh

References edit

  1. ^ "Good days are ahead for classical music students here — Pandit Jyoti Goho". The Daily Star. 23 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Jyoti Goho". Indian Classical Music Circle.
  3. ^ "Jyoti Goho-Harmonium". ITC Sangeet Research Academy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Jyoti Goho's Tribute to his Guru Late Pandit A.Kanan". itimes.
  5. ^ "Interview with Jyoti Goho–a harmonium player par excellence". 2indya. 19 June 2010.
  6. ^ "Melodic Musings - by Pandit Jyoti Goho". washingtonbanglaradio. 21 March 2010.
  7. ^ "There is No Shortcut to Success – Pt. Jyoti Goho & Sourabh Goho". LaughaLaughi. 27 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Aakriti Kakar, Babul Supriyo performat 'Standing for Nepal' Jyoti Goho on harmonium". timesofindia. 1 July 2015.
  9. ^ "BATUK NANDY SMRITI SAMMAN -2015". washingtonbanglaradio. 16 February 2015.

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