Join us for an intimate concert featuring Snehesh Nag on sitar and Monir Hossain on tabla.
Vaccination & Mask Policy
To attend this event, proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 is required. Masks are required indoors.
$15
*Limited capacity so purchase your tickets HERE in advance
Details:
Doors at 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
SNEHESH NAG
Snehesh started learning North Indian classical music and the sitar at the age of four from his father, sitar virtuoso Pt. Sugato Nag, belonging to the sarod gharana of Senia Shahjahanpore. He also took lessons from Shri Pranab Naha during his early childhood. He was attached to the ITC Sangeet Research Academy (SRA) as a junior scholar from 2010 to 2015 under Guru Padma Bhushan Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta; advanced lessons from Pt. Das Gupta continued until his passing. In addition to the style of the Senia Shahjahanpore gharana, he infuses the Imdadakhani gharana style, taught by his father, into his playing. Furthermore, he frequently takes talim from the sarod maestro, Pt. Prattyush Banerjee. He has also learned the tabla from tabla maestro Pt. Tanmoy Bose and has taken vocal instruction from Shri Sandeep Nag.
Snehesh has received international acclaim, having performed to learned audiences across multiple cities across India, the US, and Canada. He has been featured in various newspaper reviews; his playing has been addressed as one that blends a lot of “emotion, surprise elements, and aesthetic touches...all streaming out of a thinking mind, far too matured for his age.” (The Hindu, 2015). He stood second in the All India Radio (AIR) music competition, 2014, and was awarded the Acharya Allauddin Khan Memorial Award 2014 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, in January 2015. He has become a regular performer for All India Radio. He currently is a recipient of the national scholarship recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
He graduated with a MS in Music Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020, and often engages in exploring sounds, both from his sitar and other sources, with the use of technology. He often collaborates with a variety of musicians, and enjoys discovering and improvising based on the common musical langauge shared between them.
MONIR HOSSAIN
Monir Hossain hails from a musical family, grandson of researcher and performer of well-known Ustad Kader Buksh of Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. Born in Bangladesh, and migrated to US with his family at a very early age, Monir was musically influenced at an early age by his father, vocalist Ustad Hafiz Hossain, a regular classical vocalist at All India Radio in Calcutta. His long term guru is Pandit Samar Saha of Sangeet Research Academy, Calcutta.
Though trained in Benaras style, Monir expanded to other styles and also received brief but extensive talim from tabla stalwarts such as Pandit Nayan Ghosh, Pandit Anup Ghosh, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee as well as (late) Ustad Shawkat Ali Khan. Monir played tabla and appeared in person in Hollywood film American Chai and has been performing since his teen years. Some of the notable musicians includes well-known musicians such as Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Smt. Anupama Bhagwat, Guitarist Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya the late Smt. Laxmi Shankar and many others. He has released CDs with sarod maestro late Pt. Budhadev Das Gupta, Pt. Debojyoti Bose and sitar maestro Ustad Shahid Parvez. Monir continues to explore creative ways to infuse his traditional training with his evolving style of accompaniment as he continues to mature musically. Monir lives in Northern Virginia area and currently teaches and performs all over the continental USA and Canada, India and Bangladesh.
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