Agomoni Music Conference

2200 Bancroft Ave,San Leandro CA 94577

22 May, 2022

Description

First time ever! Agomoni hosts Music Conference where Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri on Tabla and Maestro Alam Khan on Sarode will perform live! Agomoni is proud to present the first Agomoni Music Conference in 2022 - bringing two renowned musicians of our times on stage for bay area Indian Classical music lovers! Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is a phenomenon in the arena of Indian Classical Music. Musicians honor him as one of the most respected Tabla players, worthy of highest regard all over the world. Swapanji holds a pedigree of awards and accolades reserved for artists of only the highest caliber. He is a recipient of the prestigious Padma Shree Award and Sangeet Natak Academy Award from the Government of India, as well as the American Academy of Artists Award, accolades which are reserved only for those artists who have attained the highest level of artistry. He is also the recent recipient of a Doctorate of Letters from Rabindra Bharathi University in Kolkata, India. Swapanji has received the Excellence in Performing Arts Award from the Global Indian Congress in San Francisco, and has been nominated into the esteemed International Percussive Arts Society's Hall of Fame. In 2016, and again in 2019, Swapanji was awarded the Master/Apprentice Award from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. Son of the legendary Sarode Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, Alam has been touching the hearts of audiences worldwide for many years. Since his initial training into the Maihar Seni Gharana at the age of seven, Alam was blessed to learn and live in the traditional style of Guru and student. Ali Akbar Khan's careful crafting and guidance shows in each note as well as in Alam's imaginative way of expressing the ancient ragas passed down from the courts of Emperor Akbar by Mian Tansen in the 16th century. He has toured worldwide and established himself as Ali Akbar Khan's true heir and the face of a new generation of Sarode players, attracting praise and attention from musical icons such as Sitar Legend Ravi Shankar, Carlos Santana, Slide Guitarist Derek Trucks, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, and many more of India's finest musicians. Alam has had the privilege and honor of performing alongside some of India's greatest Tabla masters-- such as Swapan Chaudhuri, Zakir Hussain and Anindo Chatterjee--in a constantly growing list of highly reputed venues, including the Dover Lane Music Festival, Saptak, Darbar Festival, the San Francisco World Music Festival, the Chicago World Music Festival and the Carnegie Group in NYC. Alam, following in his father's footsteps, is now the head of instrumental studies at the Ali Akbar College of Music and has dedicated his life to preserving, performing and teaching this music to the world. COVID Protocols: All guests are required to bring proof of vaccination in order to gain admission to the auditorium. All attendees are required to wear mask inside the auditorium at all times per request from performing maestros. Refund Policy: You can request a refund for your tickets up to 7 days before event. Upon requesting a refund, please allow a few days for your request to be processed. Ticket price will be refunded, however, Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable. In case of COVID related county mandates, if the event is cancelled, we will process refunds automatically for the full amount.