Major performances in some of the prestigious festivals:
(In INDIA)
Har Ballav Festival, Jalandhar
Saptak Fesival, Ahmedabad
Doverlane Music Conference, Kolkata
ITC Sangeet Sanmelon, Kolkata, Hyderbad, Delhi etc.
Chennai-il-thiruvaiyaru Festival, Chennai.
Alva Virasat, Mangalore.
IMG St.Xaviers, Mumbai.
Gunidas Sangeet Sanmelon, Delhi, Kolkata etc.
Sankarlal Music Festival, Delhi.
Sa Ma Pa Festival, Delhi.
Sankat Mochan, Varanasi.
National Program of Music , AIR & Doordarshan (National TV).
And many more….
ABROAD (Outside India)
Carnegie Hall, NY, (2006)
Lincoln centre summer series (2007)
Symphony Center (presented by world music institute,2007),
American Dance Festival (with Tap Dancer Jason Smith and Pt. Chitresh Das ,2005 and 2007)
Japan American theater, Los Angles, Sacred Music Festival, 2006 .
Chicago World Music Festival, 2006
Theatre de la ville, Paris,
Paleis, Brussells (part of Ravi Shankar ensemble,1999)
World Percussion Festival, Granada, Spain,
Barbican Center, South bank London,
BBC Indian Night, Manchester,
Radio France Indian music series, Paris (two times)
Tours in Japan
Abhijit has been invited by University of California, Los
Angeles for doing its project with the percussion of
Gamelan music in Indonesia.
TARANG:
Formed his own group TARANG and played in India in major cities, club venues and festivals such as Tolly Club,(Calcutta), R.K.Mission Institute of Culture (Calcutta) Percussive Arts Society, (Bangalore),Kamani Auditorium (Delhi),Calcutta Music Festival, etc.
MAJOR CONCERTS:
Ruth B. Shannon Center, Whittier college (part of LA festival)
Barclay theater, Irvine.
Kumbwaa Jazz Club( Santa Cruz),
University of Oshkosh (repeat performance after our first tour in 2004)
University of Kansas, Manhattan (repeat performance after 2004)
Dallas forworth music circle (repeat performance after 2004)
Indian Classical Music Society, St. Louis
World Beat Center, San Diego
Seminars and workshops in many universities all over the world.
Some of the important ones:
Whittier college 7 days Lecture series by Abhijit Banerjee
on Music Religion & Drama.
New Jersy college.
University of Illinois , Urbana Champaign.
Appex Fellow (UCLA).
Otani University, Japan.
University of Colorado springs.
University of Oshkosh.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Teaching and Examiner:
Have been selected as the examiner for the Masters Degree of Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.
Examiner the Govt. of India for its national talent search in Music.
Compositional works:
Have scored music for Telefilms for Calcutta Television (DOORDARSHAN).
A documentary film on Calcutta -THE TRAIL-that got National Award and was invited in Munich and Berlin Documentary Film Festival.
A puppet Drama on The epic RAMAYANA- About RAM- by Anurupa Roy
A Greek drama based on the story “IPHEGENIA AND OTHER SISTERS”, produced by Whittier college, 21st to 25th October,2009.
Composed music for a puppetry GULBADAN in 2010.
Scored music for Film BENGALI DIASPORA by Monalisa Dasgupta
Played With:
Pandit Ravishankar
Late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
Ustad Amjad Ali khan
Pandit Jasraj
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
Dr. Balmurlikrishna
Begum Parween Sultana
and all stalwart musicians of Indian Classical Music
Crossover Music :
Larry Coryell
Ttrilok gurtu
Ry Cooder
Keny Endo
Awards and Certificates:
Has been awarded by Govt.of India for the documentary film on Calcutta.
Has been awarded by Madhya Pradesh State Govt. as ABHINAV KALA SANMAN (Novelty of Art award).
Has been honored by the Sheriff of Hampstead, New York for extraordinary performance in New York Vedic Heritage center on November 1st and 2nd 2002.
ORGANISATION:
Founder of “DHWANI ACADEMY OF PERCUSSION MUSIC’ in India where all kinds of percussion instruments are being taught and nurtured. Now it has extended its wings to Los Angeles, New York.
CDs and Recordings:
Have numerous Cds published all over the world with the all major artistes of Indian Classical Music. Apart from that, mentioned here are some of the major Cds which are published as his solo albums and his compositional work.
* Phases – the new album on Human Life Cycle released by TIMES MUSIC, INDIA.
* TARANG (TIM, Hamburg Germany) compositional work of his own team.
* Mystical Moments of Rhythm (Magna Sound, India) – solo tabla
* Teental (Peshkar, Germany)- solo tabla
* True Rhythms of India (BMG CRESCENDO)- duet with other percussionist.
* Moonlight Whispers (TIM, Germany) compositions with Keyvan Chemirani, Larry corryell and Ronu Majumdar
* Hollow Bamboo (Water Lily Acoustics, USA) work with Ry cooder, Ronu, John Hassals and others.