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The Raga Fellowship Foundation, and a concert in memory of a teacher
The Raga Fellowship Foundation
For young students of Hindustani music
The Raga Fellowship Foundation exists to support young students of Hindustani classical music.
The music has always passed from teacher to student over years, not terms. That arrangement asks a great deal of the student: time, instruments, lessons, travel, and the patience of a family. The Foundation’s aim is modest and specific: to help some of those students continue when circumstance would otherwise make them stop.
It was founded by Arnab Chakrabarty, whose own music was formed through decades of traditional apprenticeship.
Sponsor a young student
Support one student’s study directly, lessons, an instrument, or both. We will be in touch to discuss what is needed and how it is arranged.
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The Dr. Kalyan Mukherjea Memorial Concert
An annual concert in Calcutta, founded by Arnab Chakrabarty and dedicated to showcasing leading practitioners of Hindustani music.
Kalyan Mukherjea was one of Arnab’s teachers, and among the figures of the Bengal branch of the Shahjahanpur Gharana who drew heavily on khayal vocal music, bringing rapid, alternate-picked taans across complex string shifts while keeping absolute command of an inherited body of compositions. The concert keeps his name where it belongs: in front of an audience listening seriously.