Samir Chatterjee - Director, composer, tabla,
Sanghamitra Chatterjee and Atri Kotal - vocal,
Ramanan Venkatraman - Hansaveena
Xander Naylor - guitar
Contributors - Dr. Keyur Thakar, Penny Brill, Sharv Dave,

Seating: On the floor with back jack support, on regular chairs and cushioned chairs.
Dress Code: Casual, comfortable, decent. Please take off your shoes before entering the performance space.
Food and beverage: Only water is allowed inside the performance space. Please bring your own supply.
Parking: 6-hour metered parking is allowed on both sides of the street from 6 pm to midnight on Monday through Friday and 8 am to midnight on Saturday. On Sundays, street parking is free. There are also parking garages around the block.
CCIM is wheelchair accessible.

CHHANDAYAN'S PROGRAMS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE.
And the following donors: N. Balasubramanium, Sanjeev Bala, Penny Brill, Anjan and Sheba Chatterjee, Erawati Bawle, Matteo Banerjee, Paresh Trivedi, Keyur Thakar, Jagat Mavani, Rajesh Abhyankar, Amitabha Bose, Tejas Tope and others.

This concert culminates the three-week residency on the Multi-sensory Perception of Music, supported by a grant from New York State Council on the Arts. Admission to this concert is free to those having difficulty with living, due to cancer, other fatal diseases, disorders or decay caused by old age.

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.

Sanghamitra Chatterjee

Sanghamitra Chatterjee is a versatile singer of a wide variety of Indian songs from different genres. Her array of repertoire includes Bhajan, Ghazal, Dadra, film songs, Rabindra Sangeet (songs of Tagore), Adhunik (modern) Bengali songs, Nazrulgeeti and different types of folk and regional songs in different languages.

She had her lessons in classical singing from Pdt. Usharanjan Mukherjee and Sri Dashu Mukherjee. In non-classical music her training has been under Jatileshwar Mukherjee, Ajoy Das, Prasanta Chowdhury, Nikhil Chatterjee and others. She is an upgraded artist of the national radio and television of India. Her proficiency in Tagore songs has earned her the Sangeet Sudhakar diploma.

Sanghamitra's singing is characterized by high aesthetic quality and technical brilliance. Her sensible scanning of lyric with rendered with her original touches of embellishments, her highly sensitive and involved presentation not only brings out the inner essence of the songs she presents, but also adds a new dimension to their emotional contents. Her voice is gifted with a natural mellifluous quality which inevitably touches her audience. Much of her musical sensibilities have developed under the guidance and influence of her illustrious husband Samir Chatterjee, a musician of outstanding caliber and repute.

Sanghamitra Chatterjee is not only known for her excellence as a solo performer, she has also contributed to several groups such as the Chhandayan ensemble in their productions of Indo-Flame and Nacho-Nacho (blend of Indian and Flamenco dance and music), Dawn to Dusk and Beyond and World Percussion Ensemble; with the Battery Dance Co. of NY in production of Songs of Tagore; with the Kathak Ensemble of NY in Ka-Tap (Kathak and Tap dancing), with Ethos Percussions in Masters of Indian Music series. She has performed in many important places and festivals in the United States such as the Smithsonian Institute, Columbia University, American Museum of Natural History in New York and Washington, DC, Symphony Space in NYC, Wortham Center in Houston, Lotus Music and Dance, Kansas University, Monadnock Festival in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Sun Valley in Idaho, University of South Florida in Tampa etc. Apart from her homeland India and the United States she has also performed in Sri Lanka, Poland, The Bahamas and Kazakhstan.

She has presented master classes at Manhattan School of Music, Raritan Community College and also done several school performances in New York City. Her published recordings in CDs and cassettes are treasured by her audience. Her scholarly contribution includes music reviews to Indian newspapers.

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.

Ramanan Vekatraman (Hansaveena)
Ramanan Venkatraman is a senior disciple of Pandit Barun Kumar Pal and has trained in the true Guru Shishya Parampara. On many occasions he has given various performances with the guidance and love from his Guru. The style of playing would mostly be termed as the Senia Maihar Gharana Style, however, Ramanan says that it is his Guru’s style, which includes everything from the Gharana added with his (Guruji’s) immense musical sense and awareness of a slide instrument that makes it vividly unique. Apart from being a Classical Musician, Ramanan is also an accomplished western music composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer and music producer. This allows him to have the most unique edge, which helps in bringing out unconventional and innovative melodies. Ramanan aspires to be capable enough to walk on the path of his Guru and is determined to promote and propagate his Guru’s hard work and struggle of the Hansaveena to the world.

Melody For Malady

Melody For Malady