SPIC MACAY DEHRADUN CHAPTER: 4/1/12

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Pt Ronu Majumdar, Flute Performance from 7th April to 11th April

Pt Ronu Majumdar grew up in Varanasi where he was originally taught flute by his father Dr. Bhanu Majumdar and then Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao.

In 1996, Ronuji received a Grammy nomination for his work on the album Tabula Rasa with Bela Fleck, the American banjo virtuoso.

Sahara India Pariwar felicitated him with life-time achievement award on occasion of Jyoti Diwas 2001.

He Received the prestigious “National Kumar Gandharva Award for 2005-06”for Classical Music by the Madhya Pradesh Government.

Pt. Ronuji's grand guru is the legendary Pt. Ravi Shankar. Ronuji has recorded on the groundbreaking Private Music {BMG} album titled “Passages” with Pt. Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass. He also performed on Pt. Ravi Shankar's 1997 release “Chants of India” on Angel {EMI} and toured with him in 1988.

He is a featured artist on Trilok Gurtu's Universal Records CD “Remembrance” with Shankar Mahadevan, Shobha Gurtu, Zakir Hussain and Sultan Khan.

He has toured extensively in Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. He has performed numerous times at the world’s most prestigious venues such as The Kremlin, Moscow, The Palace of Beaux Arts, Brussels and so on. His name has been associated with international maestros like Pandit Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, ace guitarist Rye Cooder and several others.

He had the honor of being the first flautist to give a concert in New Zealand’s town hall situated in Auckland.

He has also recorded with legends like Beatles' George Harrison, Ry Cooder, Zakir Hussain etc. He enjoyed a close association with R. D. Burman, the illustrious music director.

He has also recorded with Zakir Hussain and Ustad Sultan Khan on the 1994 Merchant Ivory film “In Custody”. In 2002, Ronu joined Michael Stipe of REM, Robbie Williams.

This convention will be a splendid opportunity

"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
-Amartya Sen
For the past two years SPICMACAY has been an integral part of my life. It has moulded my personality and has educated me in a big way. The cultural enlightment that we undergo with the society has changed my perspective of life, and made me see the world more clearly.

I have always enjoyed interacting with people from different walks of life, and a state convention is a splendid opportunity to do so. I also find that the friends and memories made during the conventions are very long lasting. Moreover, interacting with the artiste during the intensives is a very humbling experience. Their down to earth attitude makes us understand that we have airs for frivolous nothings.

In my life, I like to do things that will benefit me and the humankind in a long run. The strength of our movement and the fact that more and more people are joining it every year is a proof that the future of the movement is even brighter than the present. As our chapter coordinator, Ms. Rupi Mahindroo says, all people who join the movement and choose to be an active part of it are very special people, because there are very few people who have the fortitude to be non-conformist and give culture a chance.

This convention will be a splendid opportunity for all the enthusiasts and volunteers to meet and interact in person and we are really looking forward to it.

April 6, 2009 2:08 PM

Tavishi

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