Anol Chatterjee

Anol Chatterjee is a Hindustani classical vocalist based in Kolkata and a disciple of Padma Bhushan Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. His formative training was with Bishwanath Chowdhury, Ajit Chakrabarty, Chandana Chakrabarty and Shantanu Bhattacharyya; he is a former scholar of ITC Sangeet Research Academy and took a first-class-first master's degree in khayal at Rabindra Bharati University. He has sung at the ITC SRA Sangeet Sammelan, the Kesarbai Kerkar Sangeet Samaroh, Sangeet Natak Akademi concerts and the Virasat Festival in Dehradun, and has performed in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany, the Netherlands and Bangladesh. An A-grade artist of All India Radio and an ICCR-empanelled artist, he received the Aditya Birla Kala Kiran Puraskar in 2017, was the first recipient of the Shrutinandan Puraskar in 2012 and won the Dover Lane Music Competition in 2003. He is acting principal and senior performing faculty at Shrutinandan, Kolkata, teaches students in more than twenty countries through online classes, and has also worked as a composer and music director, including on the docu-feature Yogiraaj Syamacharan Lahiri.