Anol Chatterjee - Vocal
Sandip Ghosh - Tabla
Come join us at the Chhandayan Center for an afternoon/early evening Vocal concert performed by Anol Chatterjee accompanied by Sandip Ghosh on tabla. The concert will also be streamed live.
Anol Chatterjee
Anol Chatterjee is a rising name in the field of Indian Classical Vocal Music. The flavour of Anol's music is essentially of Patiyala Gharana, the style, which was made popular by the great maestro Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Sahab, but Anol has incorporated the best parts of other Gayakies or styles like Kirana, Jaipur, Agra Benaras etc to establish an attractive & beautiful style of his own. His exceptional sense and command over rhythm has made this Gayaki more unique.
Born to musical parents Shri Mihir Chatterjee and Smt. Madhumita Chatterjee, Anol's early grooming was initiated from his mother and Shri Bishwanath Chowdhury. Soon after it continued successively from Late Ajit Kumar Chakrabarty, Smt. Chandana Chakrabarty, and Shri Shantanu Bhattacharya. Later on, he was fortunate to be the direct disciple of Padmashree Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty, the internationally acclaimed Indian vocalist and is still training under his tutelage.
Anol is an ex- scholar of ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata. Anal is also a permanent artiste both in Khayal & Ragpradhan in All India Radio, Kolkata. He is an empaneled artiste of I.C.C.R; Govt. of India. Anol Chatterjee received the National Scholarship for Young Artistes from the Ministry of Culture. He also performed at the Yuva Pratibha Sammelan by Sangeet Natak Academy. He stood First in the prestigious Dover Lane Music Competition.
Music apart, Anol also did well in his general academics having passed in the Secondary and Higher Secondary examinations in First Division with Letter Marks. He is a graduate in English Literature and stood First Class First in masters in Music from Rabindra Bharati University.
Anol is an upcoming and promising performer of India. He has performed in a number of concerts throughout West Bengal and outside. Anol has been touring abroad since 2003. He has visited USA, UK, Canada, & Scotland for several times. He has worked as a guest artiste to teach Indian music in SAA UK, an organization, affiliated by The Leeds College of Music, UK. The Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar expressed his deep hope about Anol's successful musical career after listening to him. Anol is training talented students in Shrutinandan, a renowned music institution for last ten years.
Sandip Ghosh
At a very early age, Sandip was initiated to the art of Tabla under the tutelage of Pt. Gobinda Bose. Later on he came under the keen supervision of internationally renowned artist Pt. Anindo Chatterjee where he has been taking taalim.
As a performer, Sandip has performed all over the globe across the following countries like USA, Germany, France, Singapore, Georgia, Canada, Belgium, Sri Lanka, Oman, Kuwait, Denmark, Italy, UAE, UK and lots more, in most of the significant concerts like Doverlane Music Conference, Sawai Gandharva Sangeet Mahotsav, Saptak Music Festival, Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Shankarlal Music Festival, Darbar Festival, Ganga Mahotsav to name a few.
Sandip has accompanied with several globally distinguished artists like Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty, Ud. Shahid Parvez, Ud. Shujaat Khan, Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Vid. Kaushiki Chakrabarty, Pt. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Pt. Ramesh Mishra, Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar, Pt. Purbayan Chatterjee and many more.
Out of the many awards and accolades Sandip has received prestigious awards like The President’s award, Gold Medalist in South Asian Music Festival (twice), State Sangeet Academy Puraskar, National Scholarship from Govt. of India, Empanelled with ICCR and Spic Macay
At Present, Sandip is a performer as a solo artist and he is also collaborating with music bands like – Kyabaat (Hamburg), Raagas & Blossoms (Kolkata), String Struck (Mumbai), Asa, The Coral Life (Munich), Anouraag (Switzerland), You & Me (Germany), K3 (Austria), Big Band Orchestra (Hamburg Music University).