Rajrupa Chowdhury - Sarode
Samir Chatterjee - Tabla
Come Join us at the Chhandayan Center for a mid-day performance on the Sarode by Rajrupa Chowdhury accompanied by Samir Chatterjee. The performance will also be streamed live online
Rajrupa Chowdhury
Ms. Rajrupa Chowdhury was born at Kolkata, India. She took up Sarod at the tender age of five at the Ustad Ameer Khan School of Instrumental Music under the guidance of Pranab Naha. She has taken talim from Pandit Ajay Sinha Roy and from Siddhartha Roy Chowdhury. In 2006, Ms Chowdhury was placed first class first in her Masters in Instrumental Music from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Since then she has been taking advanced talim from Prof. Sanjoy Bandyopadhyay, who has been influential in the formation of her own style of music.
Ms. Chowdhury has performed at various concerts and competitions in India such as Salt Lake Music Festival, Kolkata (2010); Maitraiyee Sangeet Sammelan, Kolkata (2009); Sutanoti Parisad Concert, Kolkata (2005); Protiva Utsab organized by EZCC, Govt of India (2003); Bishwa Banga Shammelan at Yuva Bharti Krirangan, Kolkata (2001); India Habitat Centre (2001); All India Radio Music Competition (2001) and Dover Lane Music Competition, Kolkata, (1999). She is the proud recipient of awards like ITC-SRA Promising Artist Award, Mumbai; 2001; National Scholarship for Senior Students of Indian Classical Music, Govt. of India, 2000, and Distinction for Sangeet Bhushan by Sangeet Parisad, Chandigarh.
Ms. Rajrupa Chowdhury has also performed at the Bengal ITC-SRA Classical Music Festival, Dhaka (2012); Chhayanaut Suddha Sangeet Sammelan, Dhaka (2012) and in ‘A Tribute to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’ organized by Chhayanaut, Dhaka in 2009. She has performed on several occasions at Bengal Shilpalaya, Bengal Art Lounge and Shadhona, Dhaka.
Internationally, Ms. Rajrupa Chowdhury has performed at USA, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. She was the youngest Sarod player to perform at the North American Bengali Conference held at New York, USA in 1995.
Samir Chatterjee
Samir Chatterjee is a virtuoso tabla player. He performs and teaches all around the world. He can be heard on numerous recordings as soloist, and with other outstanding musicians from the East and the West. Samir lives in New Jersey and presides over a center for Indian music in midtown Manhattan. Samir teaches at several universities. He performed at the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. He has also performed several times at the UN General Assembly. His compositions and writings are widely acclaimed. Samir played a significant role in the musical revival in Afghanistan. He is the recipient of a few awards such as the Sunshine Award, Jadu Bhatta Award and Acharya Varistha Award.