Apratim-Amit: Sarod-tabla Concert
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 (EDT)
07:30PM - 09:00PM
Apratim Majumdar - sarod
Amit Chatterjee - tabla
Sarod virtuoso Apratim Majumdar is a thinking and creative Sarod Player, a composer of very special quality, and a brilliant performer. Apratim was born in 1978, in Kolkata. He was initially tutored and groomed by Prof. Rabin Ghosh, who was a disciple of Ustad Alauddin Khan in the style of Senia Maihar Gharana. He also received training from Shree Partho Sarothy, disciple of Ustad Dhyanesh Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. Presently he is under training of Dr. Pradip Kumar Chakraborty, one of the senior-most disciples of Pt. Ravi Shankar.
Amit Chatterjee - tabla
Sarod virtuoso Apratim Majumdar is a thinking and creative Sarod Player, a composer of very special quality, and a brilliant performer. Apratim was born in 1978, in Kolkata. He was initially tutored and groomed by Prof. Rabin Ghosh, who was a disciple of Ustad Alauddin Khan in the style of Senia Maihar Gharana. He also received training from Shree Partho Sarothy, disciple of Ustad Dhyanesh Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. Presently he is under training of Dr. Pradip Kumar Chakraborty, one of the senior-most disciples of Pt. Ravi Shankar.
Apratim is an empaneled artist of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Govt. of India. He was awarded Sur Mani title by Sur Singar Samsad of Mumbai. He is the recipient of Jadubhatta award from Kolkata and New York State Assembly award. He is performing throughout India and regularly traveling on concert tours to Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Netherlands and USA. He has also toured Peru and Bolivia under the aegis ICCR in 2019.
Amit Chatterjee, a highly gifted Tabla player of India. The famous internationally reputed Tabla Maestro,
Pandit Sankha Chatterjee being the Uncle and Guru of Amit; found extraordinary talent and tremendous
eagerness in little Amit to touch and play the tabla. He adopted Amit as his son and started imparting
rigorous training from the tender age of five in typical Indian Style of Guru Shishya Parampara. Amit is one
of those rare tabla players who have been fortunate enough to acquire the intricacies and subtleties of both
Farukhabad and Punjab Gharana. Rich musical heritage of his family provided Amit with the rare opportunity
to come in close contact with and receive blessings from great stalwarts of Indian Music like Late Ustad
Allarakha Khan, Late Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Chinmoy Lahiri, Late Ustad Munawar Ali Khan, Late Pandit
V. G. Jog, Late Pandit Kishen Maharaj, and also living legends such as Ustad Zakir Hussain and Ustad Ashish
Khan.