Sitar and Vocal Concert: Megha Rawoot, Supriyo Dutta
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 (EDT)
07:30PM - 09:00PM
*Update 10/7/22 6pm - online sales for in-person tickets are now closed; tickets can be purchased at door using cash or card; live stream admission is still available online.
Megha Rawoot - sitar
Supriyo Dutta - vocal
Tejas Tope - tabla
Anirban Chakraborty - harmonium
Megha Rawoot is a Mumbai based sitar player. Currently she is a disciple of Sitar Maestro Purbayan Chatterjee. She has been playing sitar since 2009. She has taken the training in sitar from Mrs. Deepti Mishra and pt. Madan Shankar Mishra also. She has done her bachelor’s degree in Hindustani music (sitar) from Miranda house, Delhi University and completed Masters in performing arts (sitar). She is an awardee of National scholarship for junior category in the field of sitar by CCRT, ministry of culture and an awardee of Scholarship for young artist in the same field by Ministry of culture. She has attended many music festivals and camps. She has performed in many national and state competitions in India. She was runner up in 19th national youth festival “Bandhav” and represented Delhi, held in Assam. She has been an artist in All India Radio. She has performed in 140th Harivallabha sangeet Samarah. She has performed National and International stages.
From the last few years, she has been collaborating with well-known artists, musicians and bands, exploring and welcoming new genres of music other than Indian Classical Music. Currently she is collaborating with the very well-known music directors of the country Salim-Sulaiman for their project “Bhoomi 2021” and Abhijit Vaghani for “Mixtape Rewind season 3”.
SUPRIYO DUTTA
Supriyo Dutta is considered a young maestro in Hindustani Vocal Classical music and has performed extensively in India as well as in the United States of America, Australia, Europe, Sri lanka, etc. He is trained under some of the finest and legendary icons of Indian classical music namely, Pandit Ramkrishna Basu (Indore gharana), Padmashri & Sangeet Natak Academi Ratna wardee Pandit Vijay Kichlu & Vidushi Subhra Guha.
Megha Rawoot - sitar
Supriyo Dutta - vocal
Tejas Tope - tabla
Anirban Chakraborty - harmonium
Megha Rawoot is a Mumbai based sitar player. Currently she is a disciple of Sitar Maestro Purbayan Chatterjee. She has been playing sitar since 2009. She has taken the training in sitar from Mrs. Deepti Mishra and pt. Madan Shankar Mishra also. She has done her bachelor’s degree in Hindustani music (sitar) from Miranda house, Delhi University and completed Masters in performing arts (sitar). She is an awardee of National scholarship for junior category in the field of sitar by CCRT, ministry of culture and an awardee of Scholarship for young artist in the same field by Ministry of culture. She has attended many music festivals and camps. She has performed in many national and state competitions in India. She was runner up in 19th national youth festival “Bandhav” and represented Delhi, held in Assam. She has been an artist in All India Radio. She has performed in 140th Harivallabha sangeet Samarah. She has performed National and International stages.
From the last few years, she has been collaborating with well-known artists, musicians and bands, exploring and welcoming new genres of music other than Indian Classical Music. Currently she is collaborating with the very well-known music directors of the country Salim-Sulaiman for their project “Bhoomi 2021” and Abhijit Vaghani for “Mixtape Rewind season 3”.
SUPRIYO DUTTA
Supriyo Dutta is considered a young maestro in Hindustani Vocal Classical music and has performed extensively in India as well as in the United States of America, Australia, Europe, Sri lanka, etc. He is trained under some of the finest and legendary icons of Indian classical music namely, Pandit Ramkrishna Basu (Indore gharana), Padmashri & Sangeet Natak Academi Ratna wardee Pandit Vijay Kichlu & Vidushi Subhra Guha.
He was a National Scholar under Ministry of Culture as a student and a recipient of many Gold Medals; Bijon Ghosh Dastidar award from the Hon’ble Governor, Prasun Bandopadhyay Memorial award, Sarbo-bharatiya Sangeet o Sanskriti Parishad and from many other reputed organisations. Supriyo is also an empaneled artist of the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations)
Few of his performances across the globe includes Woodford festival in Australia, Filarmonica Romana; North American Bengali Conference ( NABC ), Concerts for Deutsch-lndische Gesellschaft ( DIG ) Germany, Concert tour for Alliance Francaise, India International Centre -New Delhi, Horizon Series concerts for ICCR at Pune , Mumbai, Kolkata; Holi Sangeet Utsavat NZCC -Patiala, Samraat Sangeet Sanmellan–Goa, Dakkhini Sangeet Sanmellane Kolkata, Pratibha Utsav from Sangeet Natak Academi , New Delhi; West Bengal State Music Academy's Annual festival at Kolkata , Festival dell’ Oriente–Rome, Diwali Festival at auditorium Parco della Musica–Rome , Conservatorio di Musica“guiseppe verde” Torino ( Italy ), Museo di Arte Orientale ( MAO ), National Youth festival –Gwalior, National Integration camp –Kerala.
Supriyo is an active and eloquent crusader of music and regularly holds highly commended training classes and workshops for both in India and abroad in schools and university levels as well. He has many CDs and digital releases to his credits including “Raga Reminiscence” from India; “Passionate voice” released in Europe last year. In recent “Ustad Amir Khan-the path breaking modernist” hosted by Sangeet Ashram won him Calcutta International Cult Film Festival award.
He conducted several conferences on Indian classical music with students of Universita Degli Studidi Torino, Fondazione Universita Della Terzaeta Milano Duomo, Musicology Department of Universita Degli Studi di Milano, Conservatorio di Musica–Milano, Festival dell’ Orient –Rome, Organico Scena Artistica(OSA) –Locarno (Switzerland), Woodford Festival –Australia. Further he also holds regular workshops and classes in various parts of the world on voice training. Instrumentalists of various genre beside vocalists also joins his workshops and classes on comparative study of basics of Occidental music and Indian classical music.
Tejas Tope is has been learning tabla from his Guru Pt. Samir Chatterjee since the age of five.
Tejas Tope is has been learning tabla from his Guru Pt. Samir Chatterjee since the age of five.
At the ages of 7 and 12, with the blessings of his Guru, he participated in three tabla ensembles at the 5th and 10th and 16th Annual All-Night Concerts held in New York City, organized by Chhandayan (www.tabla.org). He has also accompanied Samarth Nagarkar at Chhandayan All-night concert.
Tejas received First prize in the instrumental category in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 at the annual Vedic Heritage’s Holi Youth Talent Competition held in Hempstead, Long Island, NY. In the summer of 2006, he played at the 6th Marathi European Sammelan in Almelo, Netherlands, at the 13th BMM Convention in Seattle (June 2007), and 15th BMM Convention in Chicago (July 2011). In October 2007, Tejas had his Rangamanch Pravesh and presented tabla solo as a part of Chhandayan Concert Series. Tejas received first prize in the Swardhara Competition held by Marathi Vishwa in 2010. Tejas received Chhandayan’s prestigious Jyotsna Award in the student category in 2011.
At the age of 11, he recorded his compositions in a CD album entitled ‘Guru-Arpita – A Dedication to Pt. Samir Chatterjee’as a token of his affection, respect, and gratitude to his Guru. The CD album contains fifty-six compositions presented in structured tabla solo format in six taals. A booklet of his compositions accompanies the CD album.
Tejas has been performing across the U.S. and India for the past several years. In addition to playing tabla solo in various venues in USA and abroad, Tejas has accompanied Pta. Mita Nag (sitar), Pt. Steve Gorn (flute), Kunal Gunjal (santoor), Kedar Naphade (harmonium), Samarth Nagarkar (vocal), Pta. Lalita Dantale-Kurulkar (vocal) over the past several years. He has toured India, where he was featured as a soloist and accompanist and won appreciation from all.
Anirban Chakrabarty
Anirban Chakrabarty hails from a family of Musicians. His father, Amal Chakrabarty is a dedicated vocalist. From his very childhood Anirban was initiated to Hindustani Classical Music by his father. He is a postgraduate in music with first class from the Rabindra Bharati University. Although he is a good vocalist, his keen interest in playing Harmonium have driven him under the tutelage of Pandit Manas Chakraborty, the doyen of Kotali Gharana to master himself in the gayaki of Kotali style. He has also keen interest in composing music in lighter forms. The guidance of the Master Musician has already shaped him in well-organized Harmonium player and hoping him to be a musician of high repute in future.
Anirban has to his credit a number of brilliant performances as a harmonium accompanist throughout the country with both upcoming and reputed musicians. Anirban has accompanied musicians of repute like Pandit Manas Chakraborty, Pandit Dinanath Mishra, Pandit Arun Bhaduri, Smt. Kankana Banerjee, Gaan Saraswati Shreela Bandopadhyay, Pandit Madhup Mudgal, Sri. Sarathi Chatterjee, Smt. Ruchira Panda, Sri. Subhasish Mukherjee, Smt. Raka Mukherjee, Sri. Ratan Mohan Sharma and many more.
He is also a regular artist of several television channels. Besides, he is equally adept in playing table, keyboard, guitar and also worked as an arranger for several light music album. Recently popular commercial artists like Indrani Sen, Manomay Bhattacharya, Shampa Kundu, Shubhankar Bhaskar, Sahaj Ma have jointly made album of Modern Bengali Songs and devotional Songs composed and arranged by Anirban. Recently an album of Poetry and songs of TAGORE of Sri Tarun Chakrabarty has been released, arranged by Anirban. Now Anirban is also working as the Lecturer of Music in ‘Vivekananda Teachers Training Institute’ and also as the General Secretary of ‘Sur Sanchayan Sangeet Vidyalaya’, an institute to uphold the diploma courses of various forms of Indian music. Anirban to his credit has accompanied on harmonium with both upcoming and veteran musicians in all major music festivals of our country. He has also visited UK and USA as a harmonium accompanist with Ruchira Panda and earned accolades both from music lovers and connoisseurs.