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SUMMARY:EVENTNAME  - June 21\, 2025 - 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm - MATAGIRI SRI AURO
 BINDO CENTER
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSamir Chatterjee gave detailed and forceful Tabla Lahara (s
 olo) in ‘Jahamptal’. The crispness and clarity of his ‘bol’s and b
 alanced synchronization of ‘Tabla’ (the right-hand drum) and ‘Bayan
 ’ (the left-hand drum) made his recital quite enjoyable. – The States
 man\, Calcutta\,\nSamir Chatterjee is a virtuoso Tabla player from India. 
 He travels widely across the world throughout the year performing in numer
 ous festivals as a soloist or with other outstanding musicians from both I
 ndian and non-Indian musical traditions. Samir performed at the Nobel Peac
 e Prize ceremony in Oslo\, Norway in 2007. He also performed at the United
  Nations General Assembly. Samir is a firm believer in the transforming ef
 fect of music on the society and all aspects of his work reflects this con
 viction.\nSamir is rated ‘A’ as an artiste of Indian national radio an
 d television. He can be heard on numerous recordings featuring as soloist\
 , accompanying many of India's greatest musicians and in collaboration wit
 h western musicians of outstanding caliber. In concert Samir has accompani
 ed many of India's greatest musicians including Pt. Ravi Shankar\, Ud. Vil
 ayat Khan\, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi\, Pt. Jasraj\, Pt. Nikhil Banerjee\, Pt. V.G
 . Jog\, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma\, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia\, M. S. Gopalakris
 hnan\, Ud. Amjad Ali Khan\, Ud. Salamat Ali Khan\, Smt. Lakshmi Shankar\, 
 Pt. Manilal Nag\, Ud. Ali Ahmed Hussain\, Ud. Aashis Khan\, Dr. L. Subrama
 nium\, U Srinivas and many more.\nSamir Chatterjee lives in the New York-N
 ew Jersey area\, and has been a catalyst in the fusion of Indian and Non-I
 ndian music\, in his own creations and others as well. He has performed wi
 th Pauline Oliveros\, William Parker\, Branford Marsalis\, Ravi Coltrane\,
  Joshua Bell\, Yoko Ono Lenon\, Dave Douglas\, Steve Gorn\, Glen Velez\, B
 oby Sanabria\, Dance Theater of Harlem\, Boston Philharmonic\, Minnesota O
 rchestra\, Ethos Percussion group\, Da Capo Chamber Orchestra\, Boston Mus
 ica Viva and other jazz\, classical and avant guard musicians and ensemble
 s.\nChatterjee began his studies early with Pandit Bankim Ghosh\, Pt. Bala
 ram Mukherjee\, Pt. Rathin Dhar and Mohammad Salim. His later formation as
  a musician occurred under the guidance of Pt. Amalesh Chatterjee (since 1
 966) and Pt. Shyamal Bose (since 1984). All of Samir's teachers have been 
 from the Farrukhabad Gharana (school) of Tabla-playing\, which he now repr
 esents.
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