Two artists come together in this unique presentation of a conversation through poetry and instrumental music. Across space and time zones, amidst the touch of August rains and the smell of jasmine-filled summer nights drifted by the wind, they have spoken to each other in many untold conversations. Their untold conversation culminates in an impressionist experience through an artistic blend of two different art forms for an ultimate feast to the soul.
Mousumi Banerjee is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan (USA). Professionally, Mousumi lives in a world of hard science, trying to make sense of data to move cancer research and treatment forward. But her passion and deep affinity for the arts gives her sustenance in life, and counterbalances her work as a scientist. Mousumi is primarily a poet, although she has also written short stories and essays. She writes in both Bangla and English. Mousumi’s work has been published in many literary magazines in USA, India, and Bangladesh, Her collected poems Eklaghor (Room Alone) was published in Kolkata by Japonchitra
Dr. Rajeeb Chakraborty is an internationally acclaimed Sarod musician from India. Rajeeb belongs to the Maihar gharana of North Indian Classical Music, and trained under his father and lifelong Guru Pandit Rabi Chakraborty. Over the last four decades, Rajeeb has been performing nationally and internationally at major music festivals and concerts such as the Bath Festival, Chester Summer Festival, Edinborough Festival, Vienna Festival & Frankfurt Jazz Festival to name only a few. In 2013, he was named the Artist in Residence and King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professor at the Center for World Performance Studies at the University of Michigan, where he was engaged in cross-disciplinary collaborations on Jazz and Improvisation.
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