Tetsuya Kaneko is a player of the most ancient percussion called 'Pakhawaj' in India.
Pakhawaj is played with Dhrupad, the oldest style of North Indian classical music.
He started to learn it since 2000 under the great pakhawaj player Pt. Srikant Mishra who played with almost all of musicians of Dhrupad in his life.
Since 2017, he has been instructed by Pandit Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, who is the Mahant (chief priest) of the Sankat Mochan Temple.
Tetsuya has played pakhawaj as a solo player and an accompanist every year since 2002 at Dhrupad Mela, the biggest festival of Dhrupad in Varanasi, India and then he was awarded Gold medal in 2004. Received the Special Achievement Award at 27th Dhrupad Nad-Ninad-Virasat Samaroh in 2021(Jaipur).
Now he performs in all of India with great Dhrupad musicians.
In Japan, he plays actively as the only pakhawaj player and try always to play with the musicians of all kinds of genre.
http://pakhawajtetsuya.blogspot.jp
~ Indian Dhrupad musician who co-starred ~
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Pt.Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha (Vocal from Bhopal)
Pt.PremKumar Mallik (Vocak from Allahabad)
Ud.Aneesuddin Dagar &Ud.Nafeesuddin Dagar (Vocal from Pune)
Ud.Bahauddin Dagar (RudraVeena from Mumbai)
Pt.Nirmalya Dey (Vocal from Delhi )
Pt.Pushpraj Koshti (Surbahar from Mumbai)
Pt.Rabindra Goswami (Surbahar from Varanasi)
Pt.Shivdas Chakravorty (Sarod from Gorakpur)
Dr.Rajesh Sendh (Vocal from Varanasi)
Sh. Raghubeer Mallik (Vocal from Patna)
Sh.Sukhdev Chaturvedi (Vocal from Mumbai)
Smt. Sanchita Chawdhry (Vocal from Kolkata)
Sh. Ashutosh Bhattacharya (Vocal from Varanasi)
Sh.Shiv Darshan Duley (Vocal from Jaipur)
Prof. Dr.Madhu Bhatt Tailang (Vocal from Jaipur)
Smt.Padmaja Vishwaroop (VichitraVeena from Gwalior)
Sh.Sauravbrat Chakarvorty (Surbahar from Kolkata)
Smt.Aparna Shastri (Vocal from Mumbai) and …
