The ITC SRA Mini Sangeet Sammelans resumed after a considerable period of time with the inaugural session held at Jangipur, Murshidabad district, West Bengal on 25 th October 2009. The Sammelan was jointly organized by Sangeet Piyasi, Jangipur and ITC Sangeet Research Academy. The concert which took place at Rabindra Bhavan, Jangipur started at 10 am.

The Sammelan commenced with a vocal performance by Deborshee Bhattacharjee, an ITC SRA Scholar under Guru Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. He sang two compositions on Raag Bairagi, the first one set to vilambit ektaal “Mere Man Me Baso Ram” and the next one to Drut teental “Sura Sura Se Sadh Le”. After the Khayal, Deborshee sang a Meera Bhajan. Accompanying Deborshee were Indranil Bhaduri (Tabla) and Rupashree Bhattacharya (Harmonium).

The next artist of the morning was Sitarist, Joyeeta Sanyal, who is also an ITC SRA Scholar. After a short alaap she played Jod and Jhala in raga Charukeshi which is a South Indian Raga. She was accompanied on tabla by Sandip Kr Ray Chaudhuri.

The morning ended with a mesmerizing peformance in Raga Bhairavi by the maestro and senior Guru of ITC SRA, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. He sang two compositions, the first one in Vilambit Ektaal composed by the maestro himself, “Karam Karo More Sai”, the next one set to Drut Teental, “Bat Chalat Mose”. He concluded his performance with a dadra in Raga Mishra Kirwani, “Basudev Nainan Me Nandlal”. On the request of the packed audience he sang a famous Bengali composition based on the same raga “Ghum Ase Na”. He was accompanied by Indranil Bhaduri (Tabla) and Rupashree Bhattacharya (Harmonium).