For your consideration! ´Inner Rhyme’ is on the ballot for the first round of considerations to the 62nd Grammy Awards in the category Best World Music Album. We are so proud of this album, which was made with a lot of love, and gathered so much love and support around it as well. Please consider voting if you are a voting member! #LayaleChaker #LayaleChakerSarafand #Sarafand #InnerRhyme #Grammys #GrammyAwards #JakeCharkey #PhillipGolub #NickDunston #AdamMaalouf #InaCircleRe

I performed a solo show in the Owl Music Parlour part of the Open Grounds Series. I have always advocate for programming new music for solo cello in recital alongside Hindustani music. I'm grateful for the opportunity to present this work. For the set of solo hindustani music my friend and tabla player Mir Naqibul Islam accompany me. PROGRAM - ' Poetic Moments' composed by Adam Rudolph, which is partially improvised and was designed to smoothly segue into Indian classical mu

Alokananda Dasgupta’s haunting music score created a lot of buzz with people wondering what the title track of Sacred Games meant. When season one released, music maestro AR Rahman himself congratulated her for "a very interesting score and mix for Sacred Games." I'm really excited to see season 2 of Sacred Games has now won the Best Music honour at the News18 iREEL Awards 2019. Alokananda Dasgupta was competing against the likes of Sneha Khanwalkar (RejctX), Gaurav Raina (Ma

This one was a once a lifetime experience. I performed a brand new concerto by my dad back home in Brattleboro VT. My worlds came together, playing with a top notch chamber orchestra in my hometown for an audience of people who I mostly have known since childhood, conducted by my first cello teacher, Zon Eastes, improvising a cadenza using the language of Hindustani music that I have immersed myself in. I am so grateful. PROGRAM J/J

We performed at Ahavas Achim, Keene Synagogue. As usual, ahead of the performance the group visited 4 local public schools to share the music with as many children as possible. PROGRAM - Brahms Sextet No.1 in B-flat, Op.18 - Tchaikovsky Sextet in D minor, Souvenir de Florence, Op.70 With Members of the Samara Piano Quartet & Friends Louisa Stonehill & Rohan Gregory – Violins Alex Fortes & Anya Shemetyeva – Violas Paul Cohen & Jake Charkey – Cellos #ChamberMusic #Brahms #T