Wednesday, September 4, 2013
PANDIT ANINDO CHATTERJEE is an Indian tabla player from Farukhabad
gharana.
He was born in a musical family.His uncle Pandit Debiprasad Chatterjee
is an eminent sitar player of this country. His younger sister Smt.Keka
mukherjee is a leading sitar player of AIR and also welknown for her solo
performance. He is a disciple of Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Gifted with an
ability to summon crystal-clear melodies from his drums, Anindo Chatterjee
evolved into one of the world's greatest tabla players. The director of the
Farrukhabad Gharana of Tabla, founded by Haji Vilayat Khan Saheb, Chatterjee
continues to give new voice to his instrument. In addition to solo performances
and recordings, Chatterjee worked with sitar players Nikhil Banerjee, Imrat
Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, and Rais Khan,Pt.Ravisankar,Ustad Sahid
Parvej Pt.Manilal Nag, sarod players Buddhadev Das Gupta and Ali
Akbar Khan,Ustad Amjad Ali Khan,Tejendra Narayan Majumder, flutist Hariprasad
Chaurasia; santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma; and vocalists Pandit Mallikarjun
Mansur and Gangubai Hangal. Inspired by his uncle, PanditBiswanath
Chatterjee, Chatterjee began playing tabla at the age of five. Studying briefly
with Ustad Afaq Hussain Khan of the Lucknow Gharana, he advanced to
Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, with whom he studied for three decades. The
recipient of the prestigious President's Award in 1970, Chatterjee became the
first table player to perform in the House of Commons 20 years later. He performed at Rashtrapati Bhavan when U.S.
President Barack Obama visited India in November 2010.
Chatterjee received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2002.
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