About the Artists:
Subhra Guha, a leading female Hindustani vocalist from India, is regarded
as one of the finest exponents of the Agra Gharana.
She has a refreshing open-throated style and
a voice of astonishing luminosity and power capable of soaring
effortlessly
from one octave to the next. Subhraji
had been a part of the Kolkata’s Sangeet Research
Academy
for the past twenty years, initially as a scholar and later on as a
Guru. She has a remarkable
collection of thumris, and ragas including some rare bandishes (compositions). In
addition to her prowess over
the traditional classical khayal, her
renditions of the thumri, dadra and
chaiti in the pure Benaras
tradition are a treat for listeners. She
is a regular artiste of the A.I.R and television and has given
memorable performances
all over India
and abroad. Her performances at prestigious Indian Music Conferences
like the
Sawai Gandharva Music Festival Pune, The Dover Lane Music Conference
Kolkata,
Vishnu Digambar Sangeet Samaroh Delhi and
ITC Sangeet Sammelans Delhi, Kolkata and Bombay, have
been greatly appreciated and
acclaimed by critics and music lovers. In addition to concerts, Smt.
Guha has given
lecture demonstrations at
various universities in the USA and Canada.
She has several cassettes and Cds to her credit.
Pandit Ramesh Misra is one of India's
outstanding instrumentalists and a master of one of the most difficult
and unique string instruments, the Sarangi. He started his
initial
intensive training at a very tender age from his father Pt. Ramnath
Misra and
acquired further knowledge and training from some of the finest
musicians of
the Beneras Gharana such as Pt. Hanuman Prasad Mishra and Pt.
Gopal
Mishra. Presently he is under the tutelage of the legendary Sitar
maestro
Pandit Ravi Sankar. Ramesh's high aesthetic sense and artistic
sensibilities have brought him wide recognition both at home and abroad
as an
eminent soloist as well as an adept accompanist. His music
enthralls the
global audience. Ramesh has been honored with several awards
including the
prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy Award. In 1959, Ramesh was sent
as a
cultural delegate to Pakistan
by the then Prime Minister of India Jawharlal Nehru.
Pandit
Ramesh Misra has traveled all over the world accompanying
internationally
reputed artists. In addition to his appearance in most of the major
music
festivals of the world he has featured in numerous recordings
including
his own solos and earned a niche in the hearts of millions of
music
lovers. Pandit Ramesh Misra is a very high-ranking and gifted
artist,
whose music takes the audience to a divine world, a world of pure
music.
Pandit Samir Chatterjee is
a virtuoso Tabla player of India. He
travels widely across the world throughout the year performing in
numerous
festivals as a soloist or with other outstanding musicians from both
Indian and
western traditions. Sri. Chatterjee began his studies early with Pandit
Bankim
Ghosh, Pandit Balaram Mukherjee, Pandit Rathin Dhar and Mohammad Salim.
His
later formation as a musician occurred under the guidance of Pandit
Amalesh
Chatterjee (since 1966) and Pandit Shyamal Bose (since 1984). All of
Samir's
teachers have been from the Farrukhabad Gharana (school) of
Tabla-playing,
which he now represents. Pandit Chatterjee is an A-Grade artist of the
All India Radio.
In concert Pandit Chatterjee has accompanied many of India's
greatest musicians
including Pt. Ravi Shankar, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Nikhil
Banerjee,
Pt. V.G. Jog, Pt . Shivkumar Sharma, Pt.
Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Brij Bhusan Kabra, Vidwan M. S.
Gopalakrishnan,
Ud. Amjad Ali Khan, Ud. Salamat Ali
Khan, Ud. Sultan Khan, Ud. Munawar Ali Khan, Smt. Lakshmi
Shankar, Smt. Prabha Atre, Ajoy Chakraborty
and Rashid Khan, to name a few. Pandit
Chatterjee lives in New York, where he has become a catalyst in fusion
music, performing with Pauline Oliveros,
Ravi Coltrane, Dave Douglas, Myra Melford, Steve Gorn,
Glen Velez, Boby Sanabria, Ben Verdery,
William Parker, Dance Theater of Harlem, Ethos Percussion
group, Da Capo Chamber Orchestra, Boston
Musica Viva and
other jazz and avant-garde musicians. He is a member of jazz trios,
SYNC and
MANODHARMA. He is the composer and director of Nacho Nacho - Gypsy
Storyteller
and Chhand-Anand, World percussion Ensemble. He is the Founder-Director
of
CHHANDAYAN, an organization dedicated to promoting and preserving
Indian music
and culture by conducting classes and workshops, organizing concerts,
maintaining a library and running a store. Pandit
Chatterjee also has a career as a
musicologist and journalist. He
holds masters degrees in English and in History. |
The Lake
Harriet Spiritual Community Center (LHSC) is located at the
Southeast corner of 44th Street and Upton Avenue in beautiful Linden
Hills neighborhood in South Minneapolis, just west of Lake Harriet. The
map on the right shows the major routes to the LHSC from elsewhere in
the Twin Cities area. The LHSC has its own parking lot to the South and
East of the building itself, and you can usually find some on-street
parking. Another option on the weekends is a school parking lot a block
Northwest of the LHSC.
