Samir Chatterjee
Samir Chatterjee (* 1955 ) is an Indian tabla player and music teacher.
In his youth, Chatterjee was a student of Bankim Ghosh , Balaram Mukherjee , Rathin Dhar and Mohammad Salim and later perfected his training with Amalesh Chatterjee and from 1984 with Shyamal Bose .
He was one of the prominent musicians at All India Radio and accompanied well-known Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar , Vilayat Khan , Bhimsen Joshi , Jasraj , Nikhil Banerjee , VG Jog , Shivkumar Sharma , Hariprasad Chaurasia , Brij Bhusan Kabra, MS Gopalakrishnan, Amjad Ali Khan , Salamat Ali Khan or Lakshmi Shankar .
Chatterjee lives in New York, where he has become a promoter of the fusion of Indian and Western music through his collaborations with Pauline Oliveros , Ravi Coltrane , Dave Douglas , Myra Melford , Steve Gorn , Glen Velez , Boby Sanabria , Ben Verdery , William Parker and others Representative of World Music became. With Ned Rothenberg and Jerome Harris he forms the jazz trio Sync , with Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer the trio Manodharma .
Chatterjee has been teaching since the mid-1980s and is the founder and director of Chhandayan Inc , an organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Indian music. Since 2005 he has also taught at the Manhattan School of Music .
Discography
- Samir Chatterjee , 1997
- Tabla Solo , 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Samir Chatterjee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Discography as a sideman at Allmusic
- Chhandayan Inc
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| SURNAME | Chatterjee, Samir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian tabla player, world musician and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |