October 10, 2002

Contact: Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: October 10, 2002

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Purbayan Chatterjee, sitarist, and Abhijit Banerjee, tabla player,

will perform a concert of North Indian classical music Thursday, Oct.

17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Middlebury College Center

for the Arts on South Main Street (Route 30). The event is free and open

to the public.

Chatterjee,

who is just 26 years old, received the President’s Award for being the

best instrumental musician in the All India Radio Music Competition when

he was 17. He studies with Ali Akbar Khan, one of the most accomplished

Indian classical musicians of today. Chatterjee is hailed as one of the

brightest sitar performers of the younger generation.

Banerjee

studied with the late tabla maestro Pandit Gyan Prakash Ghosh and has

been on concert tours with many of the leading classical musicians of

India.

The

concert is sponsored by Middlebury College Brainerd Commons.

For

further information, contact Jennifer Nelson in the Middlebury College

Brainerd Commons office at 802-443-3321