Choral Series Bonus: Conversation with Ritika Bhattacharjee

Ritika Bhattacharjee joins Jocelyn for a conversation on today’s bonus episode! 

Ritika is a composer, pianist, and vocalist who performs in jazz combos and big bands, plays for contemporary dance productions with Ventana Ballet, and underscores fully improvised musicals at Merlin Works, The Hideout, The Fallout, and ColdTowne Theatre. Her multi-media composition portfolio includes the scores for three short films, a video game, an iOS app, a string quartet, a musical, and a symphony commission from Austin Balcones Orchestra. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2022, where she founded and served as the president and conductor of Ingeniare, the A&M Student Engineering Chorus, and served as the band leader and pianist for Binomial Rhapsody, an engineering instrumental ensemble that composed music from math equations. During her undergraduate study, she was the lead jazz vocalist for the Corps of Cadets Aggieland Orchestra, performing scores from the big-band era on tour. She currently works as a business consultant in Austin, TX, and will receive her graduate diploma in composition from the European Academy of Film Scoring in 2024.

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Relevant Links:

Ritika Bhattacharjee

The Infinity of Space available through Graphite Publishing

Texas A&M University

Shayla Rivera (Ritika’s Professor at Texas A&M University)

Binomial Rhapsody

Python 

Pivot

Gutenberg! The musical!

Film Scoring Academy of Europe

Conspirare

Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna

Orange County Philharmonic

Pepsi R&D

Lewis Carroll’s, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”

SOUNDDRAW

String Theory

Wormhole Paradoxes

Dr. Michio Kaku