Atri Kotal - Vocal
Samir Chatterjee - Tabla
Rohan Misra - Sarangi
Come join us at the Chhandayan Center for an evening vocal concert by Atri Kotal, accompanied by Samir Chatterjee and Rohan Misra. The concert will also be streamed live.
Atri Kotal
Atri Kotal initially trained under Late Pt. Biresh Roy, Ustad Jainul Abedin, Pt Ajoy Chakraborty. Currently she is under the guidance of Shri Deborshee Bhattacharjee & Padmashree Shubha Mudghal ji, Atri is a National Scholar from Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, a graded artist of All-India Radio.
Born and brought up in Kolkata and now residing in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She has performed worldwide. In India she has performed at the prestigious Dover Lane Music Conference (69th edition), VSK Baithak Delhi, Banyan Tree events Mumbai, Khazana Festival Mumbai to name a few. And in the USA, she performed in Arts from India, New York, Radha Raman Vedic Temple, Brea, California, Arizona State University, to name a few. She has received prestigious awards like Girija Devi Vises Kalakar Puraskar from Padmavibhushan Girija Devi herself, Sangeet Natak Academy Scholarship in the name of Begum Akhtar ji, Best Hindustani under Consumer Traditional category in IMA Indian Music Awards and Khazana Ghazal Talent hunt award from Padmashree Anup Jalota and Padmashree Peenaz Masani to name a few. Dedicated to perpetuating the rich legacy of Hindustani Classical vocal music, she has undergone rigorous training in the esteemed Kirana, Agra, and Patiala gharanas. Her expertise extends to a vast repertoire of Purab ang gayaki, encompassing Thumri, Dadra, and allied forms, showcasing her versatility and depth in this traditional art form.
She is also working towards spreading the rich cultural heritage of Indian Classical music among youth. She works as a visiting faculty and examiner of Indian Music at NMIMS, School of Performing Arts & School of Economics, Mumbai and multiple other private
schools and colleges in India. She also has her own 7-piece classical fusion ensemble named Survana whose purpose is to make Indian classical music more accessible for today’s world blending with modern sound.
Samir Chatterjee
Samir Chatterjee is a virtuoso Tabla player. He travels widely across the world throughout the year performing in numerous festivals as a soloist or with other outstanding musicians from both Indian and non-Indian musical traditions. Samir performed at the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway. He also performed at the UN General Assembly. His compositions are widely acclaimed as well as his writings. Samir is a firm believer in the transforming effect of music on the society and all aspects of his work reflects this conviction.
Chatterjee began his studies early with Bankim Ghosh, Balaram Mukherjee, Rathin Dhar and Md. Salim. His later formation as a musician occurred under the guidance of Amalesh Chatterjee and Shyamal Bose. All of Samir's teachers have been from the Farrukhabad Gharana of Tabla-playing, which he now represents.
Samir can be heard on numerous recordings featuring as soloist, accompanying many of India's greatest musicians and in collaboration with western musicians of outstanding caliber. In concert Samir has accompanied many of India's greatest musicians including Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Nikhil Banerjee, V.G. Jog, Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Amjad Ali Khan, Salamat Ali Khan, Lakshmi Shankar, L. Subramanium, U Srinivas, Shujaat Khan, Shahid Parvez, Ajoy Chakraborty, Rashid Khan, Kaushiki Chakraborty, to name only a few.
Samir Chatterjee has been a catalyst in the fusion of Indian and Non-Indian music, in his own creations and others as well. He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, Branford Marsalis, Ravi Coltrane, Joshua Bell, David Liebman, Ned Rothenberg, Mark Dresser, Dance Theater of Harlem, Boston Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, and other jazz, classical and Avant guard musicians and ensembles. He also collaborates with Sufi-Rock singer Salman Ahmad of Junoon from Pakistan. He is the composer and director of Tablaphilia, Indo-Flame, Chhand-Anand, RabiThakur, Meghadootam, and Dawn to Dusk and Beyond. He performs with Sanjay Mishra on his CD "Blue Incantation" featuring Jerry Garcia as guest artist.
Chatterjee has been teaching for the last 50 years. Many of his students are established performers. He is the founding president of Chhandayan. He has authored books titled A Study of Tabla, Music of India and Those Forty Days. He has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Univ. of Pittsburgh, New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Yale University, NYU, among many other major institutions in the USA, Europe and India. He has master's degrees in English and History.
Samir made significant contributions towards the musical revival of Afghanistan since 2008. He has received several awards including Sunshine Caribbean Award in 2016, Jadu Bhatta Award from Salt Lake Music Conference, Acharya Varistha Award from Pandit Jasraj Institute, Taal Mani Award from Council of Indian Classical Music, Delhi in 2018, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from SMIPAC Trust, Delhi in 2018.
Rohan Misra
Rohan Misra is a tenth-generation sarangi artist, continuing a rare and respected family tradition of Indian classical music. He began learning the sarangi at the age of six from his father and Guru, the legendary Pandit Ramesh Misra. Under his guidance, Rohan inherited a rich musical legacy shaped by nine generations before him.
He now continues his training under the guidance of Sitar maestro Pandit Kushal Das, whose mentorship plays an important role in shaping and deepening his musical growth. While strongly rooted in classical music, Rohan also explores other genres and cross-cultural collaborations, bringing new sounds and ideas to the sarangi, an instrument often described as having “a hundred colors.”
Rohan has performed at Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Smithsonian Institution. He has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Pandit Birju Maharaj, Srimati Kumudini Lakhia, Pandit Swapan Chaudhury, Pandit Rajendra Gangani, Ustad Ma Zila Khan, Pandit Samar Saha, and Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, among others.
Through his music, Rohan Misra honors tradition while continuing to grow and share the voice of the sarangi with audiences from many backgrounds.