Rabindra Goswami - Sitar
Mir Naqibul Islam - Tabla
Come join us at the Chhandayan Center for a rare opportunity to listen to some afternoon raga-s. The performance will also be streamed live.
Rabindra Goswami
Rabindra Goswami (sitar, surbahar) has been a professional musician for more than 50 years and is recognized as a senior artist in his musically rich city of Banaras, India. Unlike many Indian classical musicians who have become well known in the West, Goswami plays pure, traditional raga music. Goswami is a disciple of the late Smt. Amiya Devi, and also studied the ancient Dhrupad style with Pandit Ramakant Mishra.
Later in life, he studied the advanced intricacies of raga with the great Dr. Balchandra Patekar of Bombay and Varanasi. Goswami has won a number of national awards in India, and he is an "A level" Artist of All India Radio and Television. He has performed across the globe and was recently a fellow at Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music.
Mir Naqibul Islam
Mir Naqibul Islam is a New York based tabla player from “Farukhabad” gharana. Mir has been trained in the traditional guru-shisya style of Indian Classical music from Pt. Ashoke Paul, disciple of the great tabla guru Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh.
Mir presents tabla solo recitals and regularly accompanies vocalists, instrument players and dancers from the Indian tradition. He also performs regularly with musicians from a wide variety of other genres, bringing tabla to Jazz, Chamber Music, Middle-Eastern music, hip hop and other contexts.
He is continuing his talim simultaneously with the great Farukhabad Mastero Pt Anindo Chatterjee and Pt. Ashoke Paul. His style has also been enriched by training with Pt. Gopal Mishra and Pt. Suresh Talwalkar in past as well.
One of the finest Tabla Players from India, Mukundraj Deo comes from a family with great liking of Dance and Music. He has received inspiration and promotion for his art from his mother Dr. Mrs. Manjiri Deo, a Kathak Dancer [Disciple of Late Natraj Gopikrishna] and father, Mr. Shreeram Deo, a true lover of Dance and Music. He has undergone a rigorous training of Tabla from Late Pt. Brijraj Mishra of Bananas Gharana and Pt. Mridangraj of Ajrada Gharana. He completed Sangeet Visharad and Alankaar in Tabla with first class from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. His talent was acclaimed in the form of National Scholarship from Government of India in 1990, a prestigious title Taalmani from Sursingar Samsad, Bombay in 1993 and National fellowship in 1997. He is an 'A' grade artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan. Apart from this he also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce.
Mukundraj has written a book on Tabla in Marathi named 'Susamvad Tablyashi''. Recently he has been awarded by title 'PANDIT' by Savarkar Seva Sanstha, Thane.
He has the distinction of having accompanied Maestroes like Natraj Gopikrishna, Pt. Birju Maharaj, Dr. Prabha Atre, Begum Parveen Sultana, Ustad Dilshad Khan, Pt. Jasraj, Late Pt. C.R.Vyas, Dr. N. Rajam, Ustad Raiskhan, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, , Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pt. Ramnarayan, Pt. Satish Vyas, Rahul Sharma
He has performed overseas to Gulf countries, Japan, U.K., U.S.A., France, Switzerland, Hongkong, foray, Seychells, Mauritius and also participated in International Music Festivals in Adelaide - Australia, York early Music Festivals - England, Fes world Music festival - Morocco, Festival at Sydney era House - Sydney, La - Digue Music Festival