kolkata satikanta guha foundation is a registered charitable society running garden high school garden high international school and garden high school iiser kolkata apart from setting up and running educational institutions satikanta guha foundation is also actively involved in charitable and cultural activities the late satikanta guha the person after whom our foundation is named was not only a patron of art and literature he had an abiding interest in music and dance and the school he had founded with his wife south point came to be associated with many famous personalities and cultural organizations like the great uday shankar ali akbar college of music the little theatre group of utpal dutt and the dance academy of guru thankamani kutty among othersthe foundation has in its own way tried to promote both north indian and carnatic music and dance it has given some financial aid to yamani krishnamurthys academy of dance at new delhi and sponsored music conferences in kolkata and trivandrumin organizing this tabla workshop in collaboration with matra we the members of the foundation are only trying to follow satikanta guha in our own humble waythe threeday intensive tabla workshop organised by satikanta guha foundation and matra the music academy for tabla research by pt anindo chatterjee ended in grand style at garden high school on monday 24 july 2017the workshop was inaugurated by pt anindo chatterjee on the morning of 22 july 2017 on behalf of the satikanta guha foundation sm ratna bose delivered the welcome speech and sri anubrata chatterjee and sri haridas alankode also addressed the audience dr anuradha das academic advisor of satikanta guha foundation compered the programmeabout 40 selected students from different states of india kerala karnataka rajasthan delhi maharashtra west bengal orissa bangladesh and usa participated in the workshop pt anindo chatterjee and sri anubrata chatterjee personally trained the students on all the three days showing them the nuances of tabla playing how to play solo how to play as an accompanying artist etc it was a rich and enduring experience for the studentsthere were performances by eminent artists on all days after the classes there were tabla solos by pt anindo chatterjee sri anubrata chatterjee ms ratnashree iyer sri sandip ghosh and sitar by sri ayan sengupta santoor by sri haridas alankode and vocal by sri sreenath nair sarod player pt tejendra majumdar tabla players pt parimal chakraborty and pt subhankar banerjee were felicitated on the occasion