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OCTOBER 2012
October 2012
MONDAY OCTOBER 1 @ 12:00 PM
For The Love of Perse! Rekha Surya Lecture Demonstration and conversation with Prof. Fran
Pritchett. Baraza Online and WAFA co-present a short lecture demonstration featuring world renowned Hindustani light classical vocalist, Rekha Surya. Supported by HarmoNYom.
The youngest disciple of Begum Akhtar, Rekha Surya has also trained under Bashir Khan and Girija Devi. A lecture demonstration will be followed by a conversation between the artist and Prof. Fran Pritchett. Both Rekha Surya and Fran Pritchett are women who have dedicated their lives to the love of a shared poetic tradition. Stop by Knox Hall at noon on monday, Room 403, to hear scintillating voices.
Columbia University
Broadway/West 116 Street
Knox Hall # 403, NYC
Open to all.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 to THURSDAY OCTOBER 4
@ 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM
The SPK Academy of Music hosts Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan in New York City for an exciting series of music workshops.
Each workshop session is a unique opportunity to learn one-on-one with sitar maestro, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan. All student levels welcome. Single session duration: ~1 hour
Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is one of the finest sitar players alive today. His dazzling virtuosity and innovative genius have earned him a legacy as a giant of the sitar. Ustadji's global reputation as an awe inspiring performer is complemented by another rare gift - his ability to spread his music as a dedicated and loving guru. As a teacher, we see the same fine balance of traditionalism and innovation that is a hallmark of his performances. Find out more at www.spkacademy.org. (Photo courtezy Bhagya Prakash K.)
Residence: 344 W. 38th Street (between 8th and 9th Ave)
Suite 502, New York, NY 10018
To sign up: please RSVP by email info@spkacademy.org or call 480.329.5672
Cost: $75-$100 per session, depending on level
THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 @ 8:00 PM
Beginning Thursdays in October, the Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Session is moving to the Tea Lounge in Park Slope.
The Neel Murgai Ensemble is honored to open up the first night!
Following by the weekly Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam session where Indian Classical Music can gather for informal performances in the Jazz Jam Session style. Each performance slots for the Raga Jam will be limited to max 20 minutes to encourage a rotating roster of performers.The American Jazz Jam session has historically been a way for musicians to meet, network, play music together and cultivate community. With the Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Session, they are attempting to bring that Jazz culture to Raga music.
Tea Lounge
837 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11215. Tel:(718) 789-2762
Brooklyn, NY
http://brooklynragamassive.wordpress.com/
FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 @ 7:00 PM
Udgam Presents A Sitar Concert By Ustad Shahid Parvez
& Shri Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee on Tabla
Padma Shri Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is one of the finest sitar players alive today. His dazzling virtuosity and innovative genius have earned him a legacy as a giant of the sitar. He is known for making the notes sing, giving them the colours of a vocal performance. Few instrumentalists have enjoyed so much of love and admiration from the music loving fraternity. He maintains a rigorous worldwide tour schedule and leaves audiences in awe after each performance.
Shri Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee, among the most accomplished and leading tabla players today, is a disciple of legendary Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain. Blessed with incredibly dexterous fingers and innate creativity, he is ably carrying forward the rich Punjab gharana tradition and legacy.
Residence,
1 Gatehouse Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583
Tickets: $35 (Includes Dinner) - Free for members
Vaishali Shah 914.403.7845 ektriplets@aol.com
Snehal Kothari 914.263.0030 eskay0404@aol.com
SATURDAY OCTOBER 6 @ 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM
and SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 @ 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Lotus Dance and Music presents "Indian Music in Universal Terms" with Oded Tzur: The Art of Improvisation.
Saxophonist Oded Tzur is rapidly gaining international acclaim for his groundbreaking musical work. He is considered by many to be the first saxophonist in the world to have developed a complete method for performing North Indian Classical Music on the saxophone, single-handedly creating a revolutionary approach to the instrument. Oded's innovative technique, known as “Ampis” (A Middle Path In Saxophone), had already been presented in prestigious institutions such as the 2011 British Saxophone Congress, Trinity College of Music, London, The Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Conservatory, The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and The Rotterdam Jazz Academy. http://www.odedtzur.com
Explore the sounds of an ancient tradition with a novel and cross - cultural approach. This intensive two - session workshop will present the core elements of North Indian Classical Music, an improvised art form, with a completely new model of practice derived from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Learn how to analyze Ragas (the melodic systems) using this model, and how to improvise with “Tonal Gravity” as a source of order and inspiration. Each class will end with a collective music making session that will allow the newly acquired knowledge to be experimented with. Open to instrumentalists and vocalists of all genres. Participants should bring their own instruments.
Lotus Music and Dance
109 W. 27th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 1001
www.lotusmusicanddance.org - info@lotusmusicanddance.org - 212.627.10762 sessions prepaid: $120 OR $65 single session
SUNDAY OCTOBER 7 @ 4:00 PM
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Navatman-Anamika present a Carnatic Music Concert:.
O.S. Thiagarajan (Vocal)
Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin),
Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)
The great Musician O.S. Thiagarajan is a classicist of traditional outfit who ‘paints’ in glorious colours the fine shades of raga, kriti and swara in his numerous concerts. Besides his father, he had his earlier training under Tiger Varadachariar and Tanjore Ponniah Pillai. An ‘A’ grade artist of the All India Radio and of Doordarshan, he has been giving a large number of concerts well appreciated and relished. He was the disciples of Sangeetha Booshanam O.V.Subramanian, Padmabushan Lalgudi C. Jayaraman and Sangeetha Kala Nidhi T.M. Thygarajan. The Tiltes won by him are “Sangeetha Kala Sagara” Hyderabad, Nada Gana Kala Praveena Sangeetha Samraj’ Madurai, Nadhana Booshanam Sanmuganatha Sangeetha Sabha” New Delhi. He has toured to Present his overwhelming Concerts to japan and Russia.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
305 7th Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY
www.BhavanUS.org - 212.989.8383
Admission: $10 (Suggested Donation)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 @ 8:00 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive brings the Bollywood jazz of Sameer Gupta’s Namaskar!
(http://sameergupta.com).Featuring:
Marc Cary – Piano/Rhodes,
Arun Ramamurthy – Violin,
Neel Murgai – Sitar,
Rashaan Carter – Bass and
Sameer Gupta – Drumset/Tabla
Following by the weekly Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam session where Indian Classical Music can gather for informal performances in the Jazz Jam Session style. Each performance slots for the Raga Jam will be limited to max 20 minutes to encourage a rotating roster of performers.The American Jazz Jam session has historically been a way for musicians to meet, network, play music together and cultivate community. With the Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Session, they are attempting to bring that Jazz culture to Raga music.Tea Lounge
837 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11215. Tel:(718) 789-2762
Brooklyn, NY
http://brooklynragamassive.wordpress.com/
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 @ 3:00 PM
AAICM presents a tabla workshop with Subhankar Banerjee.
Subhankarji will cover topics relevant to classical vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers (e.g. kathak).
A representative of the Farukhabad tabla gharana, Pandit Subhankar Banerjee is a highly acclaimed and sought after tabla player. He received his initial training from his father, Sunil Kumar Banerjee. Later he continued his training under the guidance of Preetimoy Goswami and Swapan Shiva, celebrated artiste and teacher of the Farukhabad tabla gharana. Subhankar received awards at an early age: from Satyajit Ray in 1977, Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1985, and from The President of India in 1987. Training in vocal music from his childhood also made him a competent vocalist. Apart from being a fine tabla soloist, Subhankar is a regular accompanist to some of the most celebrated artists of our time, such as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pandit L.Subramanium, Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna, Pandit Jasraj, Pandit M.S.Gopalkrishnan, Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Pandit V.G.Jog, and Ustad Imrat Hussain Khan. Visit us at http://aaicm.org
Venue (NYC): To be announced
To reserve your spot, submit topics for discussion, and receive venue info, RSVP now at aaicmnewyork@gmail.com.
Ticket: $25
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 @ 7:30 PM
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a n Hindustani Vocal concert!
Rajyashree Ghosh - vocal
Samir Chatterjee - tabla
Kedar Naphade - harmoniumRajyasree Ghosh is a very talented vocalist of her generation in the field of Indian Classical Music. She is equally proficient in both classical and semi-classical music, which includes Thumri, Dadra, Bhajan, Tappa and Puratani songs etc.. Born in 1962, Rajyasree started her training at a very early age. Since then her career in music has been glorious journey. She emerged as a gold medalist both in her B.A and M.A exams in classical music (Khayal) from the Rabindra Bharati University. She also received National Scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resources Development of Govt. of India in 1986 to study under Pandit Amiya Ranjan Banerjee. She was a Scholar at the Sangeet Research Academy, where she studied music under the guidance of Smt. Girija Devi and Pandit Arun Bhaduri and Pandit K.G. Ginde. She took her talim in Nazrulgeeti from Smt. Suprava Sarkar and she is still learning Bengali Tappa, Puratani etc from Shri Ramkumar Chatterjee.
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music
4 West 43rd Street, Suite 618 (Between 5th & 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10036Tickets: $20 - $16 (Students w/ID)
http://www.tabla.org/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=48
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 @ 7:30 PM
World Music Pace presents Zakir Hussain and flautist Rakesh Charasia in
concert!Tabla superstar Zakir Hussain, India’s most celebrated living artist and an extraordinary percussionist of international renown, will be joined for this evening of Indian classical music by bansuri flute prodigy Rakesh Chaurasia, a nephew of maestro Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. Widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest percussionists, Zakir is known equally for his mastery of theclassical Hindustani repertoire of ragas as for his historic collaborations with Shakti with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, Planet Drum with the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart. A spectacular New York debut. More details here.
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
3 Spruce Street, NY, NYLocated between Park Row and Gold Street (near Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall)
2/3 to Park Place/Broadway; R/W to City Hall; J/M/Z to Fulton Street; 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City HallTickets online: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9700860
Tickets: $55, $40, $30
THURSDAY OCTOBER 18 @ 8:00 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive presents the Middle Eastern and Indian cross over stylings of
New World Collective!Featuring:
Brandon Terzic – Oud,
Camila Celine – Sarod
and Ehren Hanson – Tabla http://www.brandonterzic.com/
Following by the weekly Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam session where Indian Classical Music can gather for informal performances in the Jazz Jam Session style. Each performance slots for the Raga Jam will be limited to max 20 minutes to encourage a rotating roster of performers.The American Jazz Jam session has historically been a way for musicians to meet, network, play music together and cultivate community. With the Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Session, they are attempting to bring that Jazz culture to Raga music.Tea Lounge
837 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11215. Tel:(718) 789-2762
Brooklyn, NY
http://brooklynragamassive.wordpress.com/
THURSDAY OCTOBER 18 @ 8:30 PM
Kiran Ahluwalia - Free Opening Performance for the "White Light Festival"
Kiran Ahluwalia, vocals
Rez Abasi, acoustic and electric guitar
Dave Phillips, electric bass
Nitin Mitta, tabla
Rob Curto, accordion
Kiran Ahluwalia’s seductive voice draws on her Indian-Punjabi heritage for this free opening to the White Light Festival. Her original compositions and arrangements embody the spiritual essence of ghazal, an ancient form of poetry, influenced by Sufi mysticism, about illicit, unattainable love. Accompanied by traditional Indian percussion and contemporary Western instruments, Ahluwalia’s boundary-blurring songs invite us to explore the human condition, transcending the self by losing ourselves in love.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Broadway at 63rd Street
http://whitelightfestival.org/kiran-ahluwalia
Free
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 @ 6:00 PM
Vedic Heritage Presents Indian Classical Music & Dance!
Featuring:
- Sitarist Maestro Padma Shri Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan
- Hindustani Vocalist Smt. Kalapini Komkali (Daughter of Legendary Padma Bhushan Pandit Kumar Gandharva)
- Indian Dancer Mala Desai (Odissi) with her 2 disciples.
Pandit Jasraj Auditorium
111 Jerusalem Avenue, Hempstead, NY-11550
Tickets: $25, $50 - $15 Students & Seniors
For tickets call Temple : 516-539-9055 or Nilima Madan: 516-603-5022
or go to http://www.vedicheritageinc.com/buy-tickets
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 @ 7:30 PM
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a n Hindustani Vocal concert!
Manu Srivastava: Vocal
Anil Khare: Tabla
Kedar Naphade: Harmonium
Manu Srivastava started his Hindustani Classical Music training in Kanpur at the tender age of 4 under the guidance of Smt. Snigdha Biswas. He later continued his training in Canada and India under gurus such as Smt. Lata Sathe (disciple of Pt. Kumar Gandharva) Smt. Veena Shukla (disciple of Pt. Balwant Rai Bhatt) and Sri Shrikant Lagu and Pt. Arun Dravid. He mainly acquired his training in the tradition of Gwalior Gharana but a touch of Agra and Jaipur Gharana can be seen in his khayal gayaki.What really changed Manu's outlook on Shastriya Sangeet was his vigorous training under the late Pt. Kashinath Shankar Bodas. Pandit Bodas brought out the best in Manu, inspiring him to refine his music through intense daily riyaz. He is now under the guidance of Smt. Padma Talwalkar. A chemical engineer by profession, Manu now teaches shastriya sangeet to over 70 students in the Phoenix Metro area. He not only performs and teaches, he helps organize workshops and concerts in the Phoenix area for visiting artists from India.
Raised in Canada and the USA since the age of ten, he has unique understanding of both cultures and is an inspiration to his students. He believes that knowledge is the only way to get the younger generation interested in Shastriya Sangeet and hopes to impart it for many years to come. He has performed extensively in the Mid-west, Southwest and California.
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music
4 West 43rd Street, Suite 618 (Between 5th & 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10036Tickets: $20 - $16 (Students w/ID)
http://www.tabla.org/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=96
SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 @ 4:00 PM
Shruti Laya presents Carnatic Vocalist Sonmya.
Embar Kannan in Violin
Neyveli Narayanan on Mridindgam
K.V. Gopalakrishman on Kanjira
PS 115 Auditorium
81-51 - 26 Street, Floral Park, NY 11004
Tickets $15 - Members and children under 18, free
SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 @ 6:00 PM
Luminous Ragas with Steve Gorn on Bansuri Flute and Bill Buchen on Tabla.
Flour Power,
Livingston Manor, New York
$10 cover (Indian snacks will be avalable)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 @ 8:30 PM
Carnatic Sunday presents Snehasish Mozumder and his band, SOM.
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street/Basement (@ Bleecker Street)
New York, NY
$10 (Including food or drink)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 @ 8:00 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive presents Falu!
The extraordinary singer Falu will close out the month presenting her original songs and takes on Indian light classical music. (http://www.falumusic.com/)
Following by the weekly Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam session where 
Indian Classical Music can gather for informal performances in the Jazz Jam Session style. Each performance slots for the Raga Jam will be limited to max 20 minutes to encourage a rotating roster of performers.
Tea Lounge
837 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11215. Tel:(718) 789-2762
Brooklyn, NY
http://brooklynragamassive.wordpress.com/
SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 @ 2:00 PM
Pancha Veena Concert!
Featuring:
Amrutha Viswanath,
Bhuvana Kannan,
Aparna Kannan,
Nirupa Kumaraswamy,
Saraswathi Chnadrasekhar on Veena
Staten Island Hindu Temple
1318 Victory Blvd. Staten Island NY 10314
Admission: Free!!
SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 @ 7:30 PM
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a Sarod concert! 
Anirban Dasgupta – Sarod
Dibyarka Chatterjee – Tabla; www.dibyarka.com
Anirban Dasgupta, is the son and disciple of the renowned sarod maestro of Pdt. Buddhadeb Dasgupta. As his son, Anirban grew and stepped in the very best ambience of Hindusthani Classical Instrumental Music which has helped his innate talent to mature into a musical personality and judgement well ahead of his age. He is well known today for his delicate maestri of sarod and great facility in its techniques and authentic repertoire. He stood in the first in the All India radio competition in 1987. Has performed widely in India as also abroad. He was fortunate to receive a personal note of appreciation from sarod legend Ustad, Ali Akbar Khan. Anirban has also achieved distinction through his expositions and articles on his fathers pioneering work on derivation of Classical Instrumental Composition from Rabindra Sangeet. Bio
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music
4 West 43rd Street, Suite 618 (Between 5th & 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10036
Tickets: $20 - $16 (Seniors & Students w/ID)
http://www.tabla.org/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=15
Increasingly recognised as a talented and promising sitar player and composer of his generation, Hindol Deb started learning the sitar at the age of five from his father Sri Panchanan Sardar. He also received training from Pt. Sontosh Bannerji and was later groomed under the tutelage of Pt. Deepak Chowdhury, a senior disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar. He graduated from the Prayag Sangeet Samiti under the Allahabad University with a gold medal and is a r
Namaskar School of Music
698 Dean St (btwn Vanderbilt and Underhill) (basement studio)
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn NY 11238
$15 suggested donation
(2/3 grand army plaza, c clinton/washington, b/q 7th Ave, atlantic terminal/barclays center)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 @ 11:00 AM 
Benefit for Matagiri - Morning Songs and Ragas
Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya
& Smt. Durba Bhattacharyya (Vocals)
Narendra Budhakar (Tabla)
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music,
4 West 43rd Street, # 618 , New York , NY 10036 , USA
(free street parking on Sundays)
$20 Suggested Donation
CANCELLED! SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 @ 4:00 PM
Snehasish Mozumder- Mandolin 
Ray Spiegel- Tabla
Ted Morano - Tanpura
Snehasish Mozumder is among those few established musicians in India who has mastered the art of playing Mandolin, and has blended it perfectly into the style of Hindustani Indian Classical Music . Coming from a musically oriented family,he started his initial training at the age of four with Tabla and then Mandolin under the guidance of his grand father late Sri Bibhuty Ranjan Mozumder and then he took training under his father Sri Himangshu Mazumder and his uncle late Sri Ranjan Mozumder.Gradually he switched over to his cousin SriTejendra Narayan Majumdar who is a well-known sarode player of the country. He continued his study under late Acharya Ajoy Sinha Roy who was a beloved disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan Saheb,the founder of Maihar Gharana and he takes lesson of laykari under the guidance of Pandit Anil Palit who is a senior most disciple of Pandit Kishan Maharaj, Finally he came under the tutelage of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty.Snehasish, has performed many major festivals in India like Sankat Mochan Utsav of Varanasi Swami Haridas Sangeet Sanmelan of Mumbai, Indian Habitat Centre of Delhi, Bhowanipur Sangeeet Sanmelan, GolPark Ramkrishna Missionof Kolkata and Saltlake Music Conference of Kolkata e.t.c, and also he has toured Europe, U.K. , and USA and made a very good name amongst the music lovers . He is the recipient of Surmani and Jadubhatta Awards.
http://www.mandolinclassic.com/profile.html
The Yurt on Sacred Mountain
328 Meads Mountain Road
Woodstock , NY - info: 845-679-8865
$20 suggested
CANCELLED! SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 @ 7:00 PM TO NOV. 5
Presented by the Asia Society. 
Dancers, musicians and comedians offer a fresh take on “debates” as we head into the final days of the Presidential election. How do creative artists interpret the idea of debate? Is it form,
is it issues? Can we find a new way to look at The Great Debates?
Cabaret-style performances by comedians Hari Kondabolu, Saad Haroon, Phil Nee and Slant Performance Group;
Musicians Kiran Ahluwalia, Rez Abbasi, Nitin Mitta
and Bora Yoon; dancers Maura Donohue, Yin Mei and Parul Shah, among others.
Reception and DJ Rekha dance party to follow at 8:45.
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (@ 70 Street)
New York, NY
http://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/new-forms-new-ideas-performing-debates
Tickets: $20, $17 (Students and Seniors), $15 Members
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