Upcoming Event …

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Aarohi is happy to announce their first event of year 2008 - A performance by Tech faculty and students. Please see the flier above for details.

An Evening of Indian Classical Music - a performance by Tech faculty and
students

Thursday, 6th March, 7:00 PM
Student Center Theater

Tickets : $5 (with GT ID)
$10 (non-GT)
Free for Aarohi members

For queries, please mail : aarohi@gatech.edu

The main performers of the day would be the following:

1) Carnatic Electric Guitar: Dr. Ravi Subramanian, Asst. Professor - College of Management, Georgia Tech

Mridangam: Dr. Krishna Kumar Sarangapani (Dept of Bio-Engineering, Georgia Tech), Khanjira: Jagadeeswaran Jayaprakash

Ravi received his training in Indian classical music from the late Gomati Sitaram at The Fine Arts Society, Mumbai. He has been actively involved in encouraging interest in Indian classical music and dance on various campuses during his academic career. Although trained in the Carnatic violin, one of his hobbies is experimenting with other instruments and genres. His most recent experiment is Carnatic music on the electric guitar.

2) Hindustani Sarod: Dr.Parag Chordia, Asst.Professor - Music Department, Georgia Tech

Tabla: Pritviraj Bhattacharjee

Parag is a sarod player and is a disciple of Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, one of the greatest of all Indian sarodiyas. Before that, he studied with Michael Robbins, a disciple of of two legends of Indian classical music Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitre and Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh.

Pritviraj is one of the finest young tabla players in America. He has studied with Ustad Allah Rakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain and has accompanied many of India's leading artists.

and

3) Hindustani Vocal: Ria Mukherjee, Undergrad Student - ISYE Department, GeorgiaTech

Tabla: Anjaneya Sastry (Georgia Tech Alumnus)
Ria Mukherjee has received training in Hindustani vocal music under the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in India, from Kaustav Ray and his father, Pandit Biresh Ray. She specializes in the kirana gharana.