Alam Khan with Anubrata Chatterjee

Alam Khan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his father Ali Akbar Khan had founded the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael. He began learning the sarod from his father as a child and later joined him on stage as an accompanist before performing under his own name. He also teaches at the college his father established.

Anubrata Chatterjee is the son and student of the tabla player Anindo Chatterjee and was raised in Kolkata. In this pairing the concerts follow the shape of a Hindustani recital: a slow, unaccompanied alap on the sarod opens the raga, and the tabla enters as the piece moves into rhythmic cycles and faster exchanges between the two players.