Name Anubrata Chatterjee Website anubrata.com | Years active (1991–present) Instruments Tabla Role Musical Artist | |
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Born 1 June 1985Kolkata, India ( 1985-06 ) Similar People Anindo Chatterjee, Purbayan Chatterjee, Kumar Bose, Yogesh Samsi, Shahid Parvez | ||
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Anubrata Chatterjee (born 1 June 1985) is an eminent Indian tabla player of the Farukhabad gharana of Hindustani classical music. He is the son of world-renowned tabla maestro, Pt. Anindo Chatterjee.
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- Tabla duet 2015 pandit anindo chatterjee shri anubrata chatterjee
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards
- Important Festivals
- References
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Early life and education
Anubrata was nurtured from a very young age to be a tabla player. He had the rare fortune of being the youngest and the last Ganda-Bandh disciple of the great guru, Padmabhushan – Deshkottam Jnan Prakash Ghosh in 1992. Subsequently, he continued his training under the gifted tutelage of his father.
Career
Chatterjee made his debut as an accompanying artist with the legendary Pt.Hari Prasad Chaurasia and since then, has gone on to successfully accompany living legends of Indian Classical Music such as Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Rais Khan, Pt.Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Sh. T.H.Vikku Vinayakram, and other respected musicians all over the world.
Anubrata has proved himself both as a soloist and as an accompanist, by his consummate tabla renditions. He has also given numerous memorable duet performances along with his father. Taking the parampara forward, he has built upon his father's style and expanded his own repertoire to display an amalgamation of power, grace, skill, and superb tonal clarity.
Internationally, he marked his debut with a solo performance at the BBC World Radio, UK in the year 1991. Since then he has performed world over, including major countries like UK, USA, Greece, Jordan, Egypt, Croatia, Israel, Germany, France, Scotland, Switzerland, Indonesia, West Indies, Seychelles, Singapore, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Bangladesh, Japan, U.A.E. etc.
In the past, Anubrata has been invited to perform at some of the most prestigious International festivals held across the globe, such as : The Carnagie Hall, Pittsburgh; The Kennedy Centre of Performing Arts, Washington DC; N.A.B.C., Houston; The Esplanade Theatres, Singapore; World Percussion Festival, Chicago; The Jerash festival, Jordan; Corfu festival, Greece; Dubrovnic Festival, Croatia; Namaste India Festival, Japan; Reit Burg Museum, Zurich; etc.
In a very memorable performance in Paris, Anubrata accompanied Ustab Amjad Ali Khan along with France's National symphony orchestra called the 'Orchestre National d'lle de France. And, in the year 2012, he also had the privilege to perform for the then-P.M. Dr. Manmohan Singh at Grand Hyaat, Mumbai.
Taking after his father, Anubrata gives great importance to imparting quality training to his students. He holds regular workshops in New York at the Anindo Chatterjee School of Tabla. And in the past, has conducted numerous workshops in Japan, making many students to undertake advanced training under him.
While being deeply rooted in the traditional style of playing, Anubrata also understands the need for his art to be contemporary. He actively collaborates on projects that are traditional yet new age, which especially strike a chord with the youth. Based on this thought, he formed a unique percussion group named Taal- India wherein every region of the country was represented by a percussion instrument.
He has also been a part of various fusion bands and has had the opportunity to share a stage with prominent artists such as Shankar Mahadevan, Ranjit Barot, Rahim al Haj (a renowned Oud player from Iraq) etc.