Pandit Yogesh Samsi, Guest at The Music Room (in conversation) with Professor Ranjit S. Sokhi

Pandit Yogesh Samsi, was guest of Friend's Hearth (Kashana-e-ikhlas) at The Music Room, London. Courtesy of Sadhana Arts UK. Pandit Samsi is one of those rare tabla players whose reputation has been built on his consummate artistry in both fields of accompaniment and solo playing. The son of the renowned vocalist Pandit Dinkar Kaikini, Yogesh ji was initiated into tabla by his father at the tender age of four, and later received guidance under Pandit H.Taranath Rao. However it was under the gifted tutelage of the legendary Ustad Alla Rakha Khan that Yogesh ji received intense training for twenty three years and, matured into one of the leading Tabla players in the world. Yogesh ji has accompanied almost all the top ranking instrumentalists, vocalists and dancers of India, including Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pt. Dinkar Kaikini, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia & Ustad Amjad Ali Khan to name a few...