Talvadya Percussion Ensemble: Samyuktha Sreeram, Anubrata Chatterjee, Athrey Nadhan with Suhail Yusuf Khan

Samyuktha Sreeram is a rising star of South Indian percussion who performs on the ancient clay drum called the ghatam. She is one of a handful of female ghatam performers in the world. Samyuktha Sreeram is a disciple of the late ghatam and konnakol maestro, T.H. Subash Chandran. She is currently under the guidance of ghatam artist N. Guruprasad and mridangam artist Akshay Anantapadmanabhan. Samyuktha has over 14 years of Ghatam percussion experience and also learns Carnatic vocal music from the vocalist, Charumathi Ramachandran. Samyuktha has played hundreds of concerts across the United States, Canada and India and has earned many music awards in the U.S. and India. Samyuktha has provided ghatam accompaniment for many world renowned Indian artists such as Sudha Raghunathan, Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, Chitraveena N. Ravikiran, the Akkarai Sisters, VVS Murari and many more.

Anubrata Chatterjee is an Indian tabla player of the Farrukhabad gharana (music schooling style) of Hindustani classical music tradition. He is the son and student of legendary tabla player Anindo Chatterjee. He made his concert debut alongside Indian flute legend Hariprasad Chaurasia and has since collaborated with many other musicians in the Indian classical music realm, such as Amjad Ali Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Shahid Parvez, and T. H. Vinayakram. Chatterjee has performed as a soloist and accompanist in many other music collaborations in various genres and with percussion projects and has participated in numerous tabla duet tours with his father. Internationally, he made his solo debut on BBC World Radio in the UK in 1991 as a teenager and performed at many prestigious venues and festivals globally. Anubrata has also been a part of a unique collaboration with jazz legend Wynton Marsalis at the Lincoln Center Jazz in New York and is currently a member of the touring Ravi Shankar Ensemble.

Athrey Nadhan, from Chicago, IL started learning the art of playing the Mridangam at the age of five and is currently undergoing advanced training from the esteemed professional, Sri V. Raja Rao in Chennai, India. Athrey has accompanied several leading musicians including Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Vittal Ramamoorthy and Carnatic Music Idol Bharat Sundar, among many others. Athrey has performed in hundreds of concerts across the United States as well as in various Music Sabhas in Chennai and Trichy including the Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha and Raga Sudha during the Music Season in December. Athrey also sings and learns Carnatic vocal music from B.U. Ganesh Prasad.