Learning Together

Abhay Sharma has been playing the saxophone for various music scenes in the country since he was fifteen. Founding member of bands like Soul'd out and the Revisit Project, he also plays sessions for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal and Rekha Bhardwaj, Adnan Sami.

Aditya Bhagavatula is a drummer from New Delhi who has been learning drums since he was 4. He has learnt under the great Sir Manoj Mavely and plays with the country’s top funk band, “The Revisit Project”. He has also played with acts like Pineapple Express and Ustaad Ma Zila Khan, among others.

Rythem Bansal is a professional Pianist, Composer and Educator based in New Delhi, India. Although started with self teaching, he later studied piano from John Raphael and completed Trinity Grade 8 in Piano. Drawn to jazz and improvisational music, he also studied with Utsav Lal and Jacob Damelin (Canada). Rythem has performed with numerous musicians and bands in the city which has gained him the reputation of being one of the most in-demand Jazz pianists in India. Some of the great International and Indian musicians include George Brooks (USA), Rainer Pusch (Germany), Matteo Fraboni (Italy), David Soin Tappeser (UK), Pranai Gurung, Vasundhara Vee, Sentirenla Lucia, Sanjay Divecha, Shubh Saran, Aditya Balani and Kartikeya Srivastava to name a few. He has played at festivals like Goa Jazz Festival, MTV India Music Summit Festival, Pune Jazz Utsav, Delhi International Jazz Festival, etc. and venues like NCPA (Tata Theatre), St. Regis, India International Centre, Neemrana Fort Palace, B Flat, etc. He performs at The Piano Man Jazz Club every Sunday and currently teaches at Blue Notes School of Music apart from offering private lessons.

Tanisha Bhatnagar is a bass guitarist and backing vocalist who has been working as a session player since April 2022. After spending her first few months learning the instrument at the Blue Notes School of Music Ensemble under Pranai Gurung and currently being under the tutelage of Tom Kennedy (acoustic and electric bass player), she has performed with vocalist Sentirenla Lucia as a backing vocalist and bassist, the ‘Learning Together’ collective (featuring Abhay Sharma, Aditya Bhagavatula and Rythem Bansal), the Karan Mahajan Band at the Mahindra Blues Festival of 2023, The 909’s, and performs with her own Soul/RnB project called ‘Soul Philosophy’ which features Vrnda Dhar of ‘The Revisit Project’ on lead vocals.