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What: Renowned musician to teach a master class on Indian Sitar instrument at Broward College, Bailey Hall, Hugh Adams Central Campus, 3501 SW Davie RD Bldg. 4 (Southwest corner of the campus) in Davie, FL 33314. It is being presented by non-profit organization APAI (Association of Performing Arts of India)https://apaiart.com/ in partnership with Broward College. For more details, contact APAI at [email protected]
When: Monday, April 15
Time:1:30 PM TO 2:30 PM
This lecture-cum-demonstration is a FREE for public .
Renowned musician, Prof. Amit Chatterjee will talk about Indian Classical Music and demonstrate how to play a raga (Indian melody) on the Sitar instrument on Monday, April 15, 2024 between 1:30pm and 2:30pm. He will be accompanied on the Indian percussion instrument tabla, by the well-known percussionist Shri Gourisankar.
Prof. Amit Chatterjee is a guitarist, sitarist, vocalist and composer who combines his heritage in Hindustani (North Indian) music with more than two decades of performing and recording different music of the West, including European based music, progressive jazz, funk, rock and other popular forms of the art. He is known for being
able to seamlessly flow in and between the music of the West and India without compromising either.
Prof. Chatterjee is not a newcomer to South Florida. He worked as a visiting professor in the Ethnomusicology department at the University of Miami from 1984-1986 and continues to draw on his multicultural background as a musician and teacher. Prof. Chatterjee has recorded and performed extensively with luminaries such as Joe Zawinul, Eric Johnson, Carlos Santana, Badal Roy, Glen Velez, Paul Winter and Paul Halley, Sting, Robert Thomas Jr., Burhan Ocal and many others. He was the featured guitarist and vocalist in Joe Zawinul's primary band of the last 15 years - The Zawinul
Syndicate. He was also featured as a soloist on Mr. Zawinul's symphonic work, "Stories of the Danube." He has recorded several solo albums of his own works, including four recordings of Indian Classical music on sitar. In recent times, he has worked with the
percussion genius Pete Lockett (working with Peter Gabriel, Natasha Atlas, Bjork, etc.) and tabla virtuoso Fazal Qureishi (brother of tabla legend Zakir Hussain). As a studio musician, he works in countries located in the continents of Europe, North America and Asia.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bailey Hall at Broward College, 3501 Davie Rd,Davie,FL,United States