Anubrata Chatterjee (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian tabla (hand drums) player of the Farrukhabad gharana of Hindustani classical music. He is the son of tabla player Anindo Chatterjee.
Career He debuted alongside Hariprasad Chaurasia, and subsequently collaborated with other musicians in the Indian classical music realm, such as Amjad Ali Khan, Birju Maharaj, Shivkumar Sharma, Shahid Parvez, and T. H. Vinayakram.
Chatterjee has performed as a soloist and accompanist. He participated in numerous duet performances with his father.
Internationally, he made his solo debut on BBC World Radio in the UK in 1991 and performed at venues and festivals globally, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Esplanade Theatres in Singapore, Rietberg Museum in Zurich, the World Percussion Festival in Chicago, Jerash Festival in Jerash, Jordan, Corfu Festival in Corfu, Greece, Dubrovnik Festival in Croatia, Namaste India Festival in Japan, and others. He has been a part of a unique collaboration with jazz legend, Wynton Marsalis at the Lincoln Center Jazz in NewYork.
Awards 2001: President's Gold Medal awarded by All India Radio 2013: Basavaraj Rajguru Award conferred by the Government of Karnataka 2016: Ustad Bismillah Khan Youth Award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi
List of festival performances 2003 World Percussion Festival, Chicago Rietberg Museum, Zurich
2005 North American Bengali Conference (NABC), New York City
2006 The Esplanade Theatres, Singapore
2007 NABC, Detroit, US Jerash Festival, Jordan Corfu Festival, Greece Dubrovnik Festival, Croatia
2008 Carnegie Hall, New York City Sawai Gandharv Festival, Pune, India
2009 NABC, Houston, US
2010 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC Namaste India Festival, Japan Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Darbar Festival, London Saptak Festival, Ahmedabad, India Dover Lane Music Conference, Kolkata
2012 Sukiyaki Festival, Japan Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Darjeeling Carnival, Darjeeling, India Sawai Gandharv Festival, Pune
2013 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Duke University, Durham, US Markham Centennial Centre, Toronto Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Paris
2014 Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai Sankat Mochan Festival, Varanasi, India Idea Jalsa, Chennai, India
2015 Lisbon Orchestra
References
External links
The Calcutta Times The Times of India Classicool Project Mid-Day Newspaper Classicool Project Encyclopedia of Percussion by John H.Beck Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vol-57 India Today, Vol-33, Issues: 27–34