Kalyan Majumdar

Kalyan Majumdar is a sitar player who is a regular performer in India's professional classical-music circuit and a regular artist of All India Radio, Kolkata, and Doordarshan. Born into a musical family, he began formally learning sitar from his father, Pandit Subhajit Majumdar of the Senia Maihar gharana, at age four. He went on to study under Pandit Soumitra Lahiri and sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, and is a scholar at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy under the tutelage of Pandit Partho Chatterjee.

He placed first in the 2015 All India Radio Music Competition and won the President's Award, and holds a National Scholarship from India's Ministry of Culture. He is an empanelled artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). His honors include the Ravi Koppikar Memorial Award (2015) from ITC-SRA (West), IFFA and Music Forum, Mumbai; the Citi-NCPA Scholarship; first place in the West Bengal government's Rajya Yuva Utsav (2015-16); the Telegraph Award (2014) with a gold medal; and first place with the Nikhil Banerjee Memorial Trophy at the Dover Lane Talent Search Contest (2012-13). Sangeet Kala Kendra, Agra, conferred on him the title "Naad Sadhak" in 2016.

He has performed at venues including the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore Tagore Society, Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan in Jalandhar, the India International Centre's Winter Festival in New Delhi, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, the Dover Lane Music Conference in Kolkata, and India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, among others; his performance has also aired on Gorgeous Radio in Wolverhampton, UK. He idolizes sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and draws inspiration from his style, and his playing has been praised by sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta. He has recorded the album 'Moods and Melodies' for Sagarika Music.