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Official Album Launch of RAJA!
Bibhas Chakrabarty releasing the album in the presence of Krishna Bose and Nabaneeta Devsen. The famous play by Rabindranath Tagore directed by Debashish and published by Hindustan Record. more...
Father Daughter Duo at the Tagore Festival in London
The Father Daughter Duo attended the Tagore Festival at London where they presented a programme on Gitanjali with William Radice. more...
Debashish directs RAJA - A play by Rabindranath Tagore, published by Hindustan Records.
In September the first ever recording of Rabindranath Tagore’s play RAJA was released by theatre thespian Bibhas Chakrabarty in the presence of Krishna Bose and Nabanita Devsen. It was directed and produced by Debashish and published by Hindusthan Record. Rohini has played the role of Surangama and Debashish the role of Thakurda, with Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Raja and Chaitali Dasgupta as Sudarshana. more...
Father-daughter presents Songs of Tagore for the first time in an international music festival!
For the first time Songs of Tagore was presented at an international music festival in Belfast by the Tagore Ambassadors, Dehashish and Rohini! Before the programme Debashish lectured about Tagore’s connection with Ireland for forty minuted along with the head of the English department, Queens University, Prof. Ed Larissi. The performance took place at the Great Hall of Queens. more...
The Tagore Ambassadors at Dartington!
As ‘The Tagore Ambassadors’ Rohini and Debashish decided to spend the 150th Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore at Dartington, a place still reverberating with the ideals of the activist-poet! We were fortunate to be invited to the week-long Tagore Festival at Dartington in Devon, England where Rabindranath stayed in the 1920s. There they presented a programme with William Radice entitled “How Magically You Sing”. This was a unique venture to introduce Tagore’s music to the mainstream British audience. William was in a conversation with Rohini and Debashish about the different aspects of Tagore’s music interspersed with songs sung by us without any musical accompaniment. They were trying to reveal to the mainstream British audience of serious music the songs of Tagore by avoiding the hackneyed and conventional musical accompaniments. more...
Father-daughter duo at the prestegious Belfast Festival!
In October 2010, the ‘Father-daughter duo’ was invited to the prestigious Belfast Festival as the first Indian artistes after Pt. Ravi Shankar. As the ‘Tagore Ambassadors’ they presented a programme of Irish and Scottish Ballads and Tagore’s transcreations in Bengali. more...
Official Launch of SONAR TARI, the Golden Boat
For the first time in the history of Rabindrasangeet artistes from both India and Bangladesh have participated in a CD to pay tribute to Rabindranath Tagore. This audio feature is based on letters, poems and songs that Rabindranath wrote during his several stays around the river Padma, in Shelidaha, Shahajadpur, Kushtia and Patisar. more...
SONAR TARI, the Golden Boat
Sonar Tari, the Golden Boat! This was the title of one of the most celebrated poems of the bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). What makes the boat golden? Is it a golden hull? Or is it a pair of golden oars? None of these, actually. The boat is golden because it carries away the harvest, the golden harvest! The golden harvest of a poet; his poems, songs, novels, short stories, essays, plays and paintings! A rich and prolific harvest indeed! more...
Official launch of "Transcreations"
Debashish and Rohini Raychaudhuri officially launched their new album titled "Transcreations" on the 23rd of December,2009. The venue of the launch was the Oxford Bookstore, Kolkata. Apart from songs sung by the one and only father-daughter duo in the world of Rabindrasangeet, this album features Hamish Hossain who has accompanied the musical arrangement with the Piano. The audio CDs are now available across all leading music stores and outlets. more...
Rohini and Sounak Face to Face at NABC 2009
Watch Rohini Raychaudhuri and Sounak Chattopadhyay at NABC 2009 talk about their poignant blend of Rabindrasangeet and Classical vocal in "Jugalbandi". In their opinion, it is a unique experimentation keeping the authenticity and aesthetics of both forms of music in place.
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Don't Miss this!
On 27 June At Gyan Manch, 6pm Dr Ashoke Mitra launches The Album of CDs and book on Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali followed by Live performance from the CD by Rano Guhathakurta, Rohini and Debashish Raychaudhuri. Special discount on the sale of the album only for that evening!!!! more...
Our Latest Recording Coming Soon
We have planned an audio album containing the original Scottish ballads and Irish melodies which inspired Rabindranath to transcreate in Bengali for his operas "Valmiki Pratibha", "Kalmrigaya" and "Mayar Khela". more...
Rohini to perform at NABC, San Francisco
After performing in Bangladesh and Japan in 2008, Rohini will be visiting the U.S. in July,2009 to perform at the North American Bengali Conference (Banga Sanmelan) to be held at San Francisco. more...
Rohini Awarded Dakshinee Puroshkar
Every year, Dakshinee confers the coveted and prestigeous Dakshinee Puroshkar on promising young artistes of Rabindrasangeet. more...
Shrimati Hey
This is a unique audio CD based on Rabindranath's relationship with his sister-in-law, Kadambari Debi (1859-1884). This year (2009) happens to be the 150th birth anniversary of Kadambari, who had married Rabindranath's elder brother Jyotirindra at a tender age of nine. more...
The Dust and The Sunlight
This is a unique project on Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali which includes audio recordings of twelve songs and recitation of the English translation along with a booklet containing an Introduction to Gitanjali as well as English, French and German translations and transcription in Roman of the twelve songs. more...
Ganer Surer Ashankhani
Debashish Raychaudhuri has been singing for the sensitive listeners since a few decades now. His interpretation of Rabindrasangeet is cerebral with an emphasis on technical purity and personal exploration. more...
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Debashish Raychaudhuri(b.1959), singer, director of several TV Documentaries and professor of English, had joined Doordarshan as a Presentation Announcer in 1977 and worked as a Producer between 1982 and 1985.
He has performed and taught songs of Rabindranath and other genres of Bengali music in India and England. He has also researched on the ?baijis? of India and recreated songs of yesteryears in his CD Bangla Gaaner Sekaal. He has a number of CDs in the genre of Rabindrasangeet. Recently he has teamed up with his daughter Rohini, another very talented vocalist, as the only ?father-daughter duo in the world of Rabindrasangeet?.
Many of his documentary films have received national and international awards. He is also the recipient of the prestigious ?SAMATAT? award for his contribution in the field of music and culture.
As a cultural historian he has lectured in many universities in India and abroad.
He heads the drama wing of Dakshinee and has directed many plays of Tagore for stage and television.
Recently he worked on operas with William Radice, Bernard Hughes in England and also teamed up with Italian and French artistes to direct Verdi?s Italian opera La Traviata in Kolkata.
His most recent work The Dust and the Sunlight is an international release of audio CDs and book based on Rabindranath Tagore?s Gitanjali. Aimed at the non Bengali audience it contains original songs of Gitanjali, recitations in English by William Radice and Louise Coigley and English, French and German translations of the songs.
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Born in a musical family, Rohini has the distinction of having late poet and composer Jyotirindra Moitra as her maternal grandfather. She has proved herself to be a promising vocalist at an early age of only 18. She stood first in her Diploma in Rabindrasangeet from the premier Rabindrasangeet institution Dakshinee. She has already cut a niche for herself in several Rabindrasangeet recitals. She is regularly featured in several television channels. She was the most popular star in Tara Muzik?s Tarar Sera Rabi-Kirane. Her series of solo programmes telecast from Tara became instant hit amongst the listeners of Rabindrasangeet.
She also has a flair for singing other genres of music than Tagore?s. She is presently trained in Classical music by Smt. Suranjana Basu. She has taken special training in Rabindrasangeet under Sri Rano Guhathakurta and her father, Debashish Raychaudhuri.
Rohini has already performed with Pundit Buddhadeb Dasgupta on stage and television. She had also earned laurels for her playback in several Bengali tele-films.
Under her father Debashish Raychaudhuri?s guidance she has recently participated in an Italian Opera along with artistes from Italy and France
She has also performed in Bangladesh and Japan.
Published CDs: Her first album is Ganer Surer Asan Khani ( Hindusthan Records), where she sings Tagore?s composition on the theme of ?music? along with her father, Debashish. Together they make up the unique ?father-daughter duo in the world of Rabindrasangeet? ! (see Rohini Raychaudhuri, Dariye achho tumi inYoutube.)
The Dust and the Sunlight: Rohini is the youngest contributor in this truly international venture on Tagore?s Gitanjali. She performs here with Rabindrasangeet stalwarts like Sharmila Roy, Rano Guhathakurta and Debashish Raychaudhuri. This Double CD album also has recitations in English by William Radice and Louise Coigley.