भज गोविन्दं | आद्य शंकराचार्य | Dhruvaa - The Sanskrit Band

Bhaja Govindam written by Adya Shankaracharya
Composition, Music, Singer, Audio & Video Editing by Sanjay Dwivedi.

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Sanjay Dwivedi
(A writer, versatile singer, music composer, music director, speaker, influencer & promoter of indian culture)

A person with full of spirit of ‘Bharat’. (spirituality, sanskrit, music, poetry. etc.). He is a practitioner of indian classical music and sanskrit language. He founded world’s first sanskrit music band 'Dhruvaa'. He composed many colours of Indian Poetry in many languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, Awadhi, Braj, Bundeli, Urdu etc. He is the promoter of Indian Culture, Music and Languages.

Dr. Sanjay Dwivedi has worked on Music in Nāṭyaśāstra for his Ph.D. He has also learned classical Indian Music in the guruparamparā of Kumar Gandharva, one of the greatest maestros in Classical Indian Music. With his creative genius, he has applied his scholarship in Sanskrit and training in classical music to bring the splendor of Classical Sanskrit poetry to masses. His skillful and imaginative use of modern sophisticated musical  instruments in Dhruvaa - The Sanskrit Music Band as well as his melodious renderings of Sanskrit stotras, songs and ślokas has created a dialogue between tradition and modernity. Sanjay Dwivedi has come forward with a real innovative idea to create a blend of Sanskrit poetry and classical music through the first ever Sanskrit Music Band – Dhruvaa. He has also made an effective use of social and electronic media – Door Darshan, Zee News,YouTube etc. for popularising Sanskrit through music.

Sanjay Dwivedi is not only a scholar of Sanskrit, he is a talented singer, music director and organizer of cultural events in which Sanskrit and Music have gone hand in hand together. His performances of Sanskrit stotras and songs of Jayadeva and pieces from classical Sanskrit poetry create a unique aesthetic experience – the Rasāsvāda -- for the connoisseur as well as the common man.

Dhruvaa - The Sanskrit Band
He has founded Dhruvaa, the first Sanskrit Music Band (Vṛnda) in India in 2015. This band has given performances in more than 300 events of national level in various cities of India. Dhruvaa is purely based on Indian classical music with the melody of western music is combindly called the Fusion. Sanskrit stotras like Bhaja Govindam, Narmadāṣṭakaṁ etc. of Ādi Śaṇkarācārya and songs of Jayadeva from his Gītagovindam as rendered by Sanjay Dwivedi and presented under the auspices of Dhruvaa has enthralled the audiences, numbering in many thousands and have made Classical Sanskrit poetry instantly popular amongst the masses. Dhruvaa, founded by him, is not only the first Sanskrit Music Band in India and the world, it remains till this date the only cultural organisation of its kind.

Sanjay Dwivedi is also a well known Music Director and Vocalist in the field of Sanskrit classical theatre. He has given Music Direction for the stage performances of many classical Sanskrit plays. He developed a new genre of Sanskrit music to communicate with the audience of Sanskrit theatre. He has composed music for more than 100 Sanskrit Stotras, songs and verses in Sanskrit and has performed them through live concerts across the country to make Sanskrit popular amongst the youth and common people. His Musical compositions of Sanskrit stotras etc have been immensely popular.

Some Memorable Sanskrit Music Concerts :-
4th Chitra Bharti Film Festival - Bhopal, Uttar Pradesh Divas - Luchnow, Magh Mahotsava - Jaipur, Swar Sudha - Sangeet Natak Academy - Jodhpur, Hriday Drishyam – 5th Edition - Bhopal, Kalidas Samaroh - Ujjain, Rasa Mahotsava – Jodhpur, 39th Foundation Day of Bharat Bhavan - Bhopal, Times Passion Cultural and Heritage Trail - Hindustan Times, Ayuryoga Expo - India Expo Centre, Greater Noida. Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsava - Jabalpur, Young Thinker's Conclave – 19, Guru Purnima - Patanjali Yogpeeth, - Haridwar, Parmarth Niketan - Rishikesh, Sanskriti Kumbh – Prayagraj, Lokmanthan - Bharat Bodh - Ranchi, Madhya Pradesh Sahityotsava, 5th Nadi Mahotasava - Bandrabhan, Apeejay Collage of Fine Arts - Jalandhar, Taigore Theatre - Chandigarh, Kurukshetra University - Kurukshetra, Ekatma Yatra - A Journey of Oneness with Adya Shankaracharya (across Madhya Pradesh), Hindu Adhyatmik Mela - Gaziyabad, Adi Shankaracharya Prakatotsava - Indore, Narmada Seva Yatra at Bhedaghat - Jabalpur, Haryana Sahitya Sangam - Haryana, Keynote Idea Fest, Patrika - Lucknow, Mahamastakabhishek - Kundalpur, Simhastha Mahakumbh - Ujjain, Sanskriti Utsava, World Book Fair - New Delhi, Foundation—Day—Celebration of NCERT - New Delhi etc.

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