There are plenty of excellent presentations of ‘Duet’ in Western Classical and Jazz.music. But as it’s the matter of improvisation of abstract musical consequences there is a very few in Indian Classical music like “Ustad Salamat Ali and Nazakat Ali Khan” in vocal and the great “Pt. Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan” in instruments. Because to make a ‘Duet’ the artistes need more than their practical skills.

However, almost all the “Jugalbandis” (the Indian term of ‘Duet’) in Indian Classical music are with same genre of expression either of two vocalists or of two instrumentalists. But Debapriya and Samanwaya, the two young artistes both disciples of the legendary and the Queen of Purabang Gayaki Padmabhusan Girja Devi,  have made it possible to present their ‘Duet’ in a different way where Debapriya is a vocalist and Samanwaya plays Sitar. In the ‘Jugalbandi’ of this couple there belongs a common composition based on an Indian Raga where they improvise complementing each other’s style and presentation.

Samanwaya has learnt from the legendary Pt.Manilal Nag, Pt. Shyamal Chatterjee and Pt. Kumar Prasad Mukherjee .Debapriya has learnt from Pt. Samaresh Chawdhury and also getting guidance from Pt.Vijay Kichlu. He is also privileged to get some guidance from Pt. Kumar Prasad Mukherjee.

In fact in the ‘Duet’ recital on stage they are made for each other and are confident about their exceptional musical presentation though they are presenting this age old traditional North Indian Classical music with a different approach, like a Unique Conversation between Vocal and Sitar blending Dhrupad,Khayal and Tantrakari styles..