Dear Music Enthusiasts,

The Indian Music Society of Minnesota (IMSOM) is proud to announce
the next performance of our 2006 Spring Concert Series: a dazzling Hindustani
vocal recital by one of India's finest vocalists, Subhra Guha! Accompanying Smt.
Guha will be the renowned Sarangi maestro, Pandit Ramesh Misra, and the dynamic
percussionist, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, on the Tabla.

REVIEWS of Smt. Guha's performances:

"(Subhra) entranced lovers of music with her hairline accuracy of
swara, seductive sweet voice and imaginative vocal interpositions."
~The Hindu, New Delhi

"Her repertoire of the monsoon melody was characterized by a
sound grasp of the aesthetics as well as the musical semantics of the raga… Her
45 minute `Miyan Ki Malhar' emerged as a shining example of her dedicationto the
art".
~Indian Express

"Her voice, after years of diligent practice, can develop a raga
into a blooming spectacle."
~Ajker Kagaj, Bangladesh

"Gifted with deepest grainy timbre that completed the onset of
winter, Guha's tone acquired an enticing beauty as she delved within an
elaborate filigree of `meend', making the most of her natural malleability to
carve out poised gratifying music. Her excellent `tappakari' rippled across the
Khayal in Raag Kedar".
~The Telegraph, Kolkata

"Sun peeps from Subhra's voice. She is born to rule. Her
voice reverberated from every nook and corner of the auditorium."
~The Hindu, New Delhi


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Indian Music Society of Minnesota (IMSOM)
proudly presents

Smt. SUBHRA GUHA (Hindustani Vocal)

with Pandit RAMESH MISRA (Sarangi)
&
Pandit SAMIR CHATTERJEE (Tabla)


SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2006
7:30 PM

VENUE:
Lake Harriet Spiritual Community Center
4401 Upton Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55401


DIRECTIONS AND PARKING:
The Lake Harriet Spiritual Community Center (LHSC) is located at the
Southeast corner of 44th Street and Upton Avenue in beautiful Linden Hills
neighborhood in South Minneapolis, just west of Lake Harriet. The map on the
right shows the major routes to the LHSC from elsewherein the Twin Cities area.
The LHSC has its own parking lot to the South and East of the building itself,
and you can usually find some on-street parking. Another option on the weekends
is a school parking lot a block Northwest of the LHSC.

For further details, or to view a map, please visit:
http://www.imsom.org/events/20060415.html


TICKETS:
Advance: $10 (Student/Senior/Member), $15 (General)
Gate: $12 (Student/Senior/Member), $17 (General)

To purchase advance tickets, please visit:
http://www.imsom.org/html_files/online/adv_tkt_20060415.jsp

IMSOM MEMBER PASSES MAY BE USED FOR THIS EVENT.

SAVE $s! Become a Member of IMSOM today and get FREE passes and
discounted tickets for this concert and others for 2006! To become a member,
please visit:
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Subhra Guha, a leading female Hindustani vocalist from India, is
regarded as one of the finest exponents of the Agra Gharana. She has a
refreshing open-throated style and a voice of astonishing luminosity and power,
capable of soaring effortlessly from one octave to the next. Subhraji had been
a part of the Kolkata's Sangeet Research Academy for the past twenty years,
initially as a scholar and later on as a Guru. She has a remarkable collection
of thumris and ragas, including some rare bandishes (compositions). In addition
to her
prowess over the traditional classical khayal, her renditions of the thumri,
dadra and chaiti in the pure Benaras tradition are a treat for listeners. She is
a regular artiste of the A.I.R. and television and has given memorable
performances all over India and abroad. Her performances at prestigious Indian
Music Conferences like the Sawai Gandharva Music Festival Pune, The Dover Lane
Music Conference
Kolkata, Vishnu Digambar Sangeet Samaroh Delhi and ITC Sangeet Sammelans Delhi,
Kolkataand Bombay, have been greatly
appreciated and acclaimed by critics and music lovers. In addition to concerts,
Smt.Guh has given lecture demonstrations at various universities in the USA and
Canada. She has several cassettes and CDs to her credit.

Ramesh Misra is one of India's outstanding instrumentalists and a
master of one of the most difficult and unique string instruments, the Sarangi.
He started his initial intensive training at a very tender age from his father
Pt. Ramnath Misra and acquired further knowledge and training from some of the
finest musicians of the Beneras Gharana, such as Pt. Hanuman Prasad Mishra and
Pt.Gopal Mishra. Presently he is under the tutelage of the legendary Sitar
maestro Pandit Ravi Sankar. Ramesh's high aesthetic sense and artistic
sensibilities have brought him wide recognition both at home and abroad as an
eminent soloist
as well as an adept accompanist. His music enthralls the global
audience. Ramesh has been honored with several awards including the prestigious
Sangeet Natak Academy Award. In 1959, Ramesh was sent as a cultural delegate to
Pakistan by the then Prime Minister of India Jawharal Nehru. Pandit Ramesh Misra
has traveled all over the world accompanying internationally reputed artists. In
addition to his appearance in most of the major music festivals of the world he
has featured in numerous recordings including his own solos and earned a niche
in the hearts of millions of music lovers. Pandit Ramesh Misra is a very
high-ranking and gifted artist, whose music takes the
audience to a divine world, a world of pure music.

Samir Chatterjee is a virtuoso Tabla player of India. He travels
widely across the world throughout the year performing in numerous festivals as
a soloist or with other outstanding musicians from both Indian and western
traditions. Sri.Chatterjee began his studies early with Pandit Bankim Ghosh,
Pandit Balaram Mukherjee, Pandit Rathin Dhar and Mohammad Salim. His later
formation as a musician occurred under the guidance of Pandit Amalesh Chatterjee
(since 1966) and Pandit Shyamal Bose (since 1984). All of Samir's teachers have
been from the
Farrukhabad Gharana (school) of Tabla-playing, which he now represents.

Pandit Chatterjee is an A-Grade artist of the All India Radio. In concert Pandit
Chatterjee has accompanied many of India's greatest musicians including Pt. Ravi
Shankar, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Nikhil Banerjee, Pt. V.G. Jog, Pt .
Shivkumar Sharma, Pt.Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Brij Bhusan Kabra, Vidwan M. S.
Gopalakrishnan, Ud. Amjad Ali Khan, Ud. Salamat Ali Khan, Ud. Sultan Khan, Ud.
Munawar Ali Khan, Smt. Lakshmi Shankar,
Smt. Prabha Atre, Ajoy Chakraborty and Rashid Khan, to name a few. Pandit
Chatterjee lives in New York, where he has become a catalyst in fusion music,
performing with Pauline Oliveros, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Douglas, Myra Melford,
Steve Gorn, Glen Velez, Boby Sanabria, Ben Verdery, William Parker, Dance
Theater of Harlem, Ethos Percussion group, Da Capo Chamber Orchestra, Boston
Musica Viva and other
jazz and avant-garde musicians. He is a member of jazz trios, SYNC and
MANODHARMA. He is the composer and director of Nacho Nacho - Gypsy
Storyteller and Chhand-Anand, World percussion Ensemble. He is the
Founder-Director of CHHANDAYAN, an organization dedicated to promoting and
preserving Indian music and culture by conducting classes and workshops,
organizing concerts, maintaining a library and running a store. Pandit
Chatterjee also has a career as a musicologist and journalist. He holds masters
degrees in English and in History.


For further information, please visit:
www.imsom.org


or contact:
Ameeta Kelekar: ameeta@...,
651-787-0497
Shivanthi Sathanandan: shivanthi@...,
651-698-0774


We hope to see you at the concert!


Shivanthi Sathanandan
Public Relations Representative
Indian Music Society of Minnesota (IMSOM)
shivanthi@...
651-698-0774


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