Achievments :: Sounak Chattopadhyay


		MAJOR PRIZES AND AWARDS • 1st Prize for Vocal solo and Best promising Talent in Bosco Raag, interschool fest organized by Don Bosco School – Kolkata (1997) • 1st Prize in Swar Prabhat Talent Contest organized by Salt lake Cultural Association (1999) • 1st Prize in Talent Search by The Dover Lane Music Conference. • Awarded Ustad Amir Khan Award for The best Vocalist and The Best Youngest Talent by Newspaper Pratidin, in the same competition (1999). • Awarded National scholarship for senior students of Hindustani Classical music by Department of Art and Culture, Govt. of India. (2002) • 1st Prize and awarded Title Surmani in the famous Kal-Ke-Kalakar music competition organized by Sur Singar Sansad of Mumbai (2004). • Empanelled as an artist of the ICCR in both Hindustani Vocal (Khayal) and Rabindra Sangeet (Songs of Rabindranath Tagore). • Winner and only recipient of respectable Gyana Pravaha scholarship for young and promising artists in 2006 for Khayal. • A regular artist of All India Radio (Kolkata) for Khayal. MAJOR PERFORMANCES Sounak performs regularly in different parts of India and abroad. The names of just some of the most important ones are given below. • Ustad Bahadur Khan Music Conference 1999 (Kolkata) • Salt Lake Music Festival – 1999 (Kolkata) • Dover Lane Music Conference (For Young Talents) – 2000 (Kolkata) * Salt Lake Music Festival – 2001 (Kolkata) • Sursagar Music Festival – 2002 (Kolkata) • Dakshini Music Conference – 2002 (Kolkata) • Swar-Vilas – 2002 (Vadodara) • Pandit Omkarnath Thakur Sangeet Sammelan - 2002 (Bharuch) • Performance and Lecture-Demonstration for young college students of Jagadish Bose National Talent Search Scholarship Scheme. – 2002 (Kolkata) • Kal Ke Kalakar Sammelan - 2004 (Mumbai) • Haridas Swami Sangeet Sammelan - 2004 (Mumbai) • Pratibha Utsav – 2004 (Kolkata) • Ustad Chand Khan Memorial Trust – 2004 (Raanchi) • Spicmacay State Convention - 2004 (Kolkata) • SPICMACAY special concert and workshop for engineering students at B.E. College (Shibpur) - 2004 • Swaranmayee Gurukul - 2004 (Pune) • Naad-Brahma - 2004 (Mumbai) • Matri Kripadham Kali Mandir - 2005 (Lucknow) • Surodhwani Raaga Festival 2005 - (Wolverhampton UK) • Nehru Centre London - 2005 • The Open University 2005 (Milton Keynes UK) • Nupur School of Music – 2005 (London UK) • Tagore Centre London – 2005 • Ankur – Music Festival for young artists – 2005 * Dadar Matunga Cultural Centre Youth Festival - 2006 Mumbai * Nehru Centre - 2006 (Mumbai) * Concert by Chhandam at Shaw Theatre – 2006 (London) * Nehru Centre (London) - 2006 • Performance at THE ARCH and American Academy of Indian Classical Music at New York City – 2006 • Performance for Pragati (Philadelphia) – 2006 * Performance and workshop at Tennessee Tech University - 2006 * Performed Khayal at India International Centre New Delhi – 2007 * Toured US performing in Florida, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York City – 2007. The above mentioned performances are just the major classical music concerts; Sounak has also performed Rabindrasangeet exclusively on numerous occasions in Kolkata and outside India as well.