Anubrata Chatterjee Explained

Anubrata Chatterjee
Birth Place:	Kolkata, India
Origin:	Mumbai, India
Genre:	Hindustani classical music, jazz fusion
Occupation:	Musical artist
Instrument:	Tabla
Years Active:	(1991–present)

Anubrata Chatterjee (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian tabla player of the Farrukhabad gharana of Hindustani classical music.^[1] He is also the son^[2] of tabla player Anindo Chatterjee.

Career

His debut as an accompanying artist was alongside Hariprasad Chaurasia, and he has subsequently collaborated with eminent musicians in the Indian classical music realm, including Amjad Ali Khan, Birju Maharaj, Shivkumar Sharma, Shahid Parvez, T. H. Vinayakram, and others worldwide.^[3]

Chatterjee has performed both as a soloist and an accompanist through his tabla renditions, participating in numerous duet performances with his father. He has actively contributed to the genre, expanding upon his father's style and developing his own collection. Internationally, he made his solo debut on BBC World Radio in the UK in 1991, subsequently performing at venues and festivals globally, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.,^[4] Esplanade Theatres in Singapore, Rietberg Museum in Zurich, the World Percussion Festival in Chicago, Jerash Festival in Jerash, Jordan, Corfu Festival in Corfu, Greece, Dubrovnik Festival in Croatia, Namaste India Festival in Japan,^[5] and others.

Awards

• 2001: President's Gold Medal awarded by All India Radio
• 2002: Pandit Nikhil Ghosh Memorial Award
• 2013: Basavaraj Rajguru Award conferred by the Government of Karnataka

List of festival performances

2003

• World Percussion Festival, Chicago
• Rietberg Museum, Zurich

2005

• North American Bengali Conference (NABC), New York City

2006

• The Esplanade Theatres, Singapore

2007

• NABC, Detroit, US
• Jerash Festival, Jordan
• Corfu festival, Greece
• Dubrovnik Festival, Croatia

2008

• Carnegie Hall, New York City
• Sawai Gandharv Festival, Pune, India

2009

• NABC, Houston, US^[6]

2010

• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
• Namaste India Festival, Japan
• Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

2011

• Darbar Festival, London
• Saptak Festival, Ahmedabad, India
• Dover Lane Music Conference, Kolkata

2012

• Sukiyaki Festival, Japan
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• Darjeeling Carnival, Darjeeling, India
• Sawai Gandharv Festival, Pune

2013

• Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
• Duke University, Durham, US
• Markham Centennial Centre, Toronto
• Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
• Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Paris

2014

• Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
• Sankat Mochan Festival, Varanasi, India
• Idea Jalsa, Chennai, India

2015

• Lisbon Orchestra

References

• Web site: 25 February 2011 . Variety at its best . 2024-02-25 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304141950/https://www.deccanherald.com/content/141064/variety-its-best.html . 2016-03-04 . Deccan Herald.
• Web site: Anubrata-Chatterjee: Anubrata Chatterjee will be off to the US for a tour . 2024-02-25 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231128204843/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/anubrata-chatterjee-will-be-off-to-the-us-for-a-tour-of-stringstruck-on-may-28-i-have-a-stringstruck-show-with-purbayan-chatterjee-shankar-mahadevanand-others-at-garden-state-exhibition-centre-nj-usa-on-29th-i-will-be-playing-in-chicago-with-purbayan-and-shashank-then-on-june-10-and-june-11-i-will-accompanying-purbayan-in-new-york-city-and-cleveland-respectively-on-june-18-i-have-a-show-in-kelowna-in-canada-says-anubrata-/speednewsshow/8566904.cms . 2023-11-28 . Times of India.
• Web site: 2010-03-07 . Drumming up a storm . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100311185125/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100307/jsp/graphiti/story_12181607.jsp . 2010-03-11 . The Telegraph.
• The Calcutta Times
• The Times of India Classicool Project
• Mid-Day Newspaper Classicool Project
• Encyclopedia of Percussion by John H.Beck
• Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vol-57
• India Today, Vol-33, Issues: 27–34

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chatterjee . Anubrata . 30 June 2010 . Young Turk: In need of Vi-Taal facelift . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080256/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=RVRLTS8yMDEwLzA2LzMwI0FyMDQ1MDM= . 2016-03-04 . 6 September 2014 . The Economic Times Kolkata.
2. Book: Beck, John H. . Encyclopedia of Percussion . 2013-11-26 . Routledge . 978-1-317-74768-0 . en.
3. Web site: Anubrata Chatterjee . 2023-11-10 . Sangeet Sabha . en-US.
4. Web site: Taal India Explore the Arts . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121010222749/http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=67920&source_type=B . 2012-10-10 . John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
5. Web site: Chatterjee . Anubrata . 2010-05-08 . The Personal Telegraph living the high life . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133611/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100508/jsp/personaltt/story_12420788.jsp . 2016-03-04 . The Telegraph.
6. Web site: Anubrata Chatterjee . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140204050957/http://www.nabc2009.com/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274&Itemid=725 . 2014-02-04 . nabc2009.com.