Evening of Surbahar and Sarode
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 (EDT)
07:30PM - 09:00PM
Radhika Samson - surbahar
Satyaki Dutta - sarod
Amod Dandawate - tabla
Radhika Samson is a reputed sitar artist of the young generation. She has been under the able guidance of the world-renowned Hansaveena maestro Pandit Barun Kumar Pal, a senior disciple of Bharat Ratna Pt. Ravi Shankar. She has studied Indian classical music under the traditional guru-shishya parampara, a traditional master-disciple based training under which the shishya (student) receives dedicated training in rare Indian classical art forms from his/her master (guru). She has also attended dedicated classes on Indian classical music of Pt. Barun Kumar Pal at the Ravi Shankar Institute of Music and Performing Arts established in New Delhi.
Radhika has performed at several prestigious platforms/festival in India and abroad, and her concerts have been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She has had the privilege of performing with her guru Pt. Barun Pal on several occasions.
Owing to her affinity and natural inclination towards the Dhrupadi Ang of Indian Classical Music, in the year 2019, Guru Pandit Barun Kumar Pal ji formally blessed and initiated Radhika with an ancient instrument, the Surbahar. After being initiated formally into the oldest form of Hindustani Classical Music through the Surbahar, Radhika has performed in various occasions and received immense appreciation for her calm style of rendering Indian Classical Music.
Satyaki Dutta
Satyaki Dutta - sarod
Amod Dandawate - tabla
Radhika Samson is a reputed sitar artist of the young generation. She has been under the able guidance of the world-renowned Hansaveena maestro Pandit Barun Kumar Pal, a senior disciple of Bharat Ratna Pt. Ravi Shankar. She has studied Indian classical music under the traditional guru-shishya parampara, a traditional master-disciple based training under which the shishya (student) receives dedicated training in rare Indian classical art forms from his/her master (guru). She has also attended dedicated classes on Indian classical music of Pt. Barun Kumar Pal at the Ravi Shankar Institute of Music and Performing Arts established in New Delhi.
Radhika has performed at several prestigious platforms/festival in India and abroad, and her concerts have been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She has had the privilege of performing with her guru Pt. Barun Pal on several occasions.
Owing to her affinity and natural inclination towards the Dhrupadi Ang of Indian Classical Music, in the year 2019, Guru Pandit Barun Kumar Pal ji formally blessed and initiated Radhika with an ancient instrument, the Surbahar. After being initiated formally into the oldest form of Hindustani Classical Music through the Surbahar, Radhika has performed in various occasions and received immense appreciation for her calm style of rendering Indian Classical Music.
Satyaki Dutta
Satyaki was born in a family with great appreciation for Hindustani classical music. At the age of 5 he was introduced to tabla, that he learnt for the next 7 years. Satyaki was fortunate to have spent much of his childhood among musicians like Pandit Sugato Nag, his mother's cousin and the legendary Sarod virtuoso Padma Bhushan Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta. At the age of 16, he started taking extensive talim in Sarod from Sri Pranab Naha and Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta.
Satyaki had performed at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore annual festival in 1999, while he was pursuing his masters study in Electrical Communication Engineering
His music practically stopped for several years when he came to the US in 2000 to pursue his PhD studies in Pure Mathematics. Finally, in 2011he resumed his music under the tutelage of Pandit Sugato Nag.
His music practically stopped for several years when he came to the US in 2000 to pursue his PhD studies in Pure Mathematics. Finally, in 2011he resumed his music under the tutelage of Pandit Sugato Nag.
Amod Dandawate
Amod Dandawate has been primarily trained in the Farrukhabad style of Tabla playing. He was born and brought up in Hyderabad, India, and later migrated to the USA. He was initiated into Tabla by his father Dr. Vasantrao Dandawate, a disciple of the legendary Maestro Ustad Amir Hussain Khan. He started playing Tabla at a very young age but seriously pursued the art form only after completing his Bachelor's degree in Engineering. At that point, he received initial guidance and encouragement from Shafaat Khan while performing as an accompanist and then spent some time taking lessons from Ustad Zakir Hussain. Having settled in New Jersey he has been receiving advanced training, since 2001, as a disciple of Pt. Samir Chatterjee, a well-known Maestro of the Farrukhabad gharana (http://www.tabla.org).
Besides performing solo Tabla, Amod has accompanied several eminent artists and keeps a busy performance schedule. Amod also hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
Besides performing solo Tabla, Amod has accompanied several eminent artists and keeps a busy performance schedule. Amod also hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.