Dave Bansraj Jr. Teacher - Performer - Artiste

Tabla disciple of Ustad Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do.

-Bruce Lee

Dave Bansraj Jr. - Get to Know the Guy With the Lightning Fingers

Dev Bansraj Jr. hails from a family deep rooted in Indian Classical and Semi-Classical Music:
The Ramkissoon lineage of musicians.
His father is the illustrious singer Dev Bansraj Ramkissoon, and mother Zaira Ann Ramkissoon.

Dave Bansraj Jr. has been performing with his father Dev Bansraj Ramkissoon since 1995 and have travelled to so many countries performing with and accompanying many renowned artistes throughout the world.

Dave’s aptitude as a Tabla Solo artiste in various Gharanas has allowed him the ability to execute performances in various forms of Classical and Light Clasical Music. He has been recognized as an accomplished Tabla player and been honoured with many awards throughout his career.

Having performed around the globe and with some of the most esteemed Indian artists on the planet, he is without a doubt revered as one of the most sought after and top Tabla Player’s in North America.

Dave Bansraj Jr.is the Founder and Teacher of S.O.A Tabla, and teaches tabla at SOA Music's 4 locations across the Greater Toronto Area, executes Skype lessons, and houses workshops across Canada and USA.

Dave Bansraj Jr. started his initial training in Tabla at the age of 13 from Shri Chander Mohan of the Delhi Gharana, who was the house guest of his father Shri Dev Bansraj for a period of one month. He then continued his training from his father, Guruji Dev Bansraj at the Saaz-O-Awaaz Academy of Indian Music.
In 2004 he was awarded an I.C.C.R (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) Scholarship from the Indian High Commission in Trinidad to study Tabla at the Shri Ram Bharatiya Kala Kendra New Delhi India, where he studied under Pandit Varendra Malviya.
While in India, he had the good fortune to stay with his father’s Sitar Guru Padma Bhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhuri (Sitar Maestro) for over 6 months, who helped in seeking his current Guru, Ustad Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa “The Master of Gharanas”.
Dave’s aptitude as a Tabla solo artiste in various Gharanas has allowed him to be able to accompany various artistes in Classical as well as Light Music.
CANADA - Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Saskatoon, St. Johns's Newfoundland
USA - New York, Florida, New Jersey, Washington, Ohio, Detroit, Minessota
INDIA - New Delhi, Hyderabad
TRINIDAD - Port of Spain, Marabella, Chaguanas, San Fernando, Macoya
GUYANA - Ana Catherina, Esquibo
ENGLAND - London
JAMAICA - New Kingston, Beverly Hills
David Rudder - Blessed CD, 2003
Dev Bansraj Ramkissoon - Kabir Bani CD, 2008
Ustad Kamal Sabri - Entertainment Canada Studios, 2017 - CD to be released 2019.
TABLA ARTISTES
(late) Pandit Kishen Maharaj • (late) Ustad Shafaat Ahmed Khan • (late) Subash Nirwan • (late) Sajjad Ali Khan • Ustad Rashid Mustafa Thirakawa • Pandit Anindo Chaterjee • Ustad Akram Khan • Ustad Tari Khan • Ustad Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari • Pandit Aneesh Pradhan • Pandit Sandeep Das • Pandit Manmohan Upadhyay • Ustad Rafiuddin Sabri • Ustad Sabir Khan • Pandit Ramkumar Mishra • Shri Subh Maharaj • Shri Subhajoyti Guha • Pandit Subankar Banerjee • Pandit Sankha Chaterjee
PAKAWAJ ARTISTE
Shri Fateh Singh Gangani
VOCAL ARTISTES
Ghulam Ali • Anup Jalota • Pankaj Udhas • Arijit Singh • Rajkumar Rizvi • Udit Narayan • Hamid Ali Khan • Subha Mudgal
SITAR ARTISTES
(late) Pandit Ravi Shankar • Padmabhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhury • Pandit Prateek Chaudhury • Anoushka Shankar • Ustad Shahid Pervez • Ustad Irshad Khan • Shakir Khan • Gaurav Mazdumdar
SHENAI ARTISTES
Bismillah Khan
SARANGI ARTISTES
(late) Ustad Sultan Khan • (late) Sabri Khan • Ustad Kamal Sabri
MOHAN VEENA ARTISTE
Pandit Vishwamohan Bhatt
VIOLIN ARTISTES
Kala Ramnath • Anupriya Deotale • Indradeep Ghosh
TORONTO - C.N Tower, Atlantis, SwamiNarayan Mandir BAPS, Powerade Centre, Wet & Wild, Chin Picnic, Flowertown Parade, Living Arts Centre, Mosaic Festival, Scarborough Jazz Festival, Irie Music Festival, C.N.E. , Small World Music Centre, IFAA Awards Pre Show, Sheraton Hotel Niagara Falls, Royal York Hotel, The Old Mill, Ehibition Place for Visnhu Mandir Grand Fundraising Gala for the Museum

TRINIDAD - Prime Minster's Home, Diwali Nagar, Centre of Exellence

INDIA - Kamani Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Door Darshan DD1, Sargam Conservatory of Music

ENGLAND - Common Wealth Instutite

JAMAICA - India High Commision Residents, Chedwin Park
VOCAL ARTISTES
Arijit Singh • Rajkumar Rizvi
SITAR ARTISTES
Padmabhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhury • Pandit Prateek Chaudhury • Shri Gaurav Mazumdar
GUITAR ARTISTE
Kapil Srivastav
SARANGI ARTISTE
(late) Ustad Sultan Khan
VIOLIN ARTISTE
Anupriya Deotale
VOCAL ARTISTES
Anup Jalota • HariBhakti Dey • Dev Dildar • Naval Pandit • Tahir Khan • Geeta Zaildar • (late) Soni Pabla • Master Saleem • Angrez Ali • Sabir Hussain • Sardool Sikander • Arvinder Singh • Santanu Bhowmick • Shamit Tyagi • Ashok Sharma
INSTRUMENTAL ARTISTES
Ustad Kamal Sabri • Shri Neel Ranjan Mukherjee
VOCAL ARTISTES
Azalea Ray • Afzal Subhani • Munni Subhani • Javed Mughal • Raj Rattan • Sanjay Albert Lall • Shikha Rouf • Muhammad Munir Maani • Parmjit Hans • Vandana Vishwas • Baljinder Brar • Tariq Hameed • Iqbal Brar • Anjum Siddiqui • Qamrul Siddiqui • Kasim Sheikh • Muneeba Sheikh • Harvinder Shridhar • Hardeep Buckshi • Raj Verma • Onkar Singh • Naval Pandit • ER Harsharan Singh • Narendra Vasishth
SITAR ARTISTES
Ustad Irshad Khan • Anwar Khurshid • Ram Vakkalanka • Raju Raghavan • Prosad
BANSURI ARTISTES
Jatinder Parkash • Hasheel Lodhia
GUITAR ARTISTES
Rajan Masih • Vishwas Thoke • Shafiq Farooqi
KEYBOARD ARTISTES
Nadeem Ali • Noman Siddiqui • Mujahid Ali
TAUS / HARMONIUM ARTISTE
Hardeep Chana
HARMONIUM ARTISTES
Raye Bade • Sanatan Goswami
TAR SHENAI ARTISTE
Rattan Bamrah
VIOLIN ARTISTE
Natrajan Vaidanathan
SANTOOR ARTISTE
Shreyas Ambikar
VOCAL ARTISTES
(late) Shri Prakash Gosai (GUY)• Mohan Nandu (GUY) • Pundit Munelal Maharaj (TnT) • Pundit Rishi Ramdular (NY) • Geeta Bisram (NY) • Karamchand Persaud • Haima Sharma • Nalini Chaitan • Nadia Maharaj-Bisram • Siva Pancham • Neil Surujdeo
KEYBOARD ARTISTES
Vinod Bisram (NY) • Anil Maharaj(TnT) • Karmachand Maharaj • Harold Bodoo • Sharma Ramdular
GUITAR ARTISTE
Suresh Ramoutar
BANSURI ARTISTE
Rokesh Anand Sarju (Fl)
DHOLAK ARTISTES
Sudesh Naraine • Shailendra Surujdeo • Vishall Dharamdass • Amit Persaud • Sudesh Siewkumar