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About
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Sugato Nag
Music was a passion amongst all the members of the Nag family, a well
known business joint family of Bengal. Sugato's father Prabir Nag's
interest in music, art and culture was keen, and as a high school
student, ventured to take Sarod lessons with his classmate , the young
Buddhadev Das Gupta , who later on went on to become one of the finest
Sarod players of the country. Mother Chameli Nag is a well known singer
of Bengali songs of Dijendralal, Rajanikanto and Atul Prasad.
Being born into such a musical family, it was not surprising that music
was in Sugato's blood right from the beginning. While his engineering
career took up the primary focus of his life, the senior Nag resolved
to provide musical training, along with the best possible education for
Sugato. The constant social interactions with the Das Gupta family and
continued musical guidance from Shri Das Gupta inspired Sugato to
plough away on the Sitar and embark on an extremely serious and
dedicated musical pursuit. In fact lessons with Shri Buddhadev
Das Gupta continued as a more informal aspect of Sugato's musical
training right through the early years until he became a regular
disciple of him later in life.
Sugato formally started taking sitar lessons with Late Shri Anil Roy
Chowdhury, in 1971, at Shri Das Gupta's recommendation. Shri Roy
Chowdhury, a much respected elder of Calcutta's music scene, was a
disciple of the legendary sarod player, Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra of the
famed Seniya Shahjahanpore gharana and had the uncanny knack of
grooming up little musicians with unparalleled dedication. After the
passing away of Anil Roy Chowdhury in 1976, Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra
adopted Sugato as his own disciple. Radhika Mohan Maitra was a strict
disciplinarian, a purist and perfectionist and it was under his long
and arduous training in all aspects of Sitar playing that Sugato
emerged as a mature and sensitive artist, while still in his teens.
Having learnt also from the eminent musician and musicologist, Shri
Ajoy Sinha Roy, a senior disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan, Sugato has
imbibed talim of the Maihar Gharana too. At present, Sugato is under
the tutelage of sarod maestro Pt. Buddhadev Das Gupta and continues to
enjoy the benefits of his guidance and his immeasurable wealth of
musical knowledge.
A Sangeet Prabhakar (B. A., Music) from the Prayag Sangeet Samiti,
Allahabad, Sugato has a number of prestigious awards to his credit. In
1985, he was placed first in the annual music competition of the Dover
Lane Music Conference. Sugato has also been a recipient of the National
Talent Search Scholarship for instrumental music in 1977. Recently,
Sugato has been given the honour of "Artist of the Month" by Sangeet
Research Academy (SRA). His performances at the Salt Lake City Music
Festival, Sangeet Research Academy, The Dover Lane Music Conference,
Ramakrishna Mission Music Festival, ITC SRA Sangeet Sammelan, Rajya
Sangeet Sammelan, Indo Occidental Symbiosis, Kolkata, "Arambh"
Festival, Bhopal, Sangeet Natak Academy, Indian Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR), India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Sangeet Mahabharti,
Mumbai and various other institutions of music have been acclaimed
greatly by critics and connoisseurs. Apart from performing all over
India, Sugato has toured extensively in the US, Canada, Germany,
France, UK, Holland and Japan, playing in University circuits as well
as in Music Conferences and holding the audience in sway with his
scintillating and exquisite performances. Sugato is a regular
performing artiste of All India Radio and Doordarshan (State
Television).
Subhankar
Banerjee
At the age of five, the musical wonder kid
was placed under the tutelage of Shri Swapan Shiva celebrated artiste
and teacher of Farukhabad Tabla Gharana and over the years he has been
dedicating himself for learning other Gharanas from different maestros.
He received awards in his early age from celebrities like
Satyajit Ray in the year1977, Pandit Ravi Shankar in the year
1985 and from President of India in 1987.Training in vocal music from
his childhood made him a competent vocalist as well. In addition to
being a reputed soloist Subhankar his one of the few choicest
accompanist of most prominent celebrities of our country like Pandit
Ravi Shankar, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Pandit
Shiv Kumar Sharma..Pandit L.Subramanium,Dr.M.Balamuralikrishnan, Pandit
Jasraj, Pandit M.S.Gopalkrishnan, Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Pandit
V.G.Jog, Ustad Imrat Hussian Khan, and many others.
He performed in the prestigious "NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CONCERT" in Oslo
along with a duet of Pt. Shivkumar Sharma and Pt. Hariprasad
Chaurasia where Indian classical music was presented for the
first time of this occasion in 1999.The Govt. Of Pakistan invited him
to perform for the 50th anniversary of Pakistan in 1997 in Islamabad
& Lahore. The President Of India took him to perform in Brazil for
the "Festival of India" in 1998 and he was invited by the govt. of
South Africa and Govt. of Mexico to show his musical brilliance as
their guest artist.
Apart from having played over hundred recordings published all over the
world as accompanist and soloist he has been experiencing and sharing
the greatness of India Classical Music along with other renowned
musicians of the world as well.
He joined Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia to play with the symphony orchestra
in London(Royal Festival Hall) and in Paris (Theatre de la ville). The
most famous Greek clarionet & Saxophone Player
Petrolucas Halkias and Lira player Ross Dally have been regularly
playing with Subhankar the Greek ethnic music and Indo Greek fusion
band in different parts of Greece since 1998 in Jazz (womad) and other
festivals.
He was invited by Prince Charles to perform in London with John Mc.
Laughin and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in February 2001.He was the
only Indian percussionist to be invited in Tokyo to compose an
orchestra with famous musicians from five other Asian countries for the
best known festival in Japan., "Asian Fantasy Concert" and perform in
1996.
(Biography Sourced from Subhankar Banerjee's website http://www.subhankar.net/biography.html)
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About
the Venue:
Normandale Community
College is located at : 9700
France Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55431
To get to Normandale
Community College, follow the directions provided here
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Acknowledgments:
IMSOM’s
Fall 2013 Concert Series has been made possible,
in part, by funds provided by the Honeywell “Dollars for
Doers” Grant,
a matching grant from US Bank, and the generosity of its members and
donors. This activity is funded, in part, by an appropriation from the
Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general
fund.
All concerts are co-sponsored by KFAI “Fresh Air” Radio
(90.3 in
Minneapolis/106.7 FM in St. Paul).

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