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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 2006 Gyana Pravaha scholarship for young and promising artists 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)
• 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 (Saikat), Los Angeles (Dakshini), Philadelphia (Pragati), New Jersey
  (NJPA) and New York City – 2007.
• Presented “Ki Ragini Bajale”, an interaction of Ragas and Rabindrasangeet, with Sreekanto Acharya
  and Rohini Roychowdhury in Kolkata in June 2008.
• Performed classical solo in G D Birla Sabhagar (Kolkata) for Salt Lake Cultural Association in August
  2008.
• Performed at Belmont University, New Mexico State University, Dallas (Antorik), Detroit (Bichitra), New
  Jersey (Kallol) and others during US tour 2008.
• Conceived and performed at “How Do I Love Thee”, a special show for Valentine’s Day, Featuring
  Parambrata Chatterjee, Debleena Dutta, Raja, Shreya Guhathakurta and Sounak. The show was
  directed by Sankarlal Bhattacharjee. February 2009.
• Performed at Bongo Sankriti Utsav, organised by the Presidency College Alumnii Association – Mumbai.
  February 2009.
• Performed at a solo Classical music concert arranged by Udayan and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Yadgaar
  Sabha at the National Gallery of Modern Art – Mumbai 2009.
• Performed at the NABC (Bongo Sanskriti Sammelan) in San Francisco in July 2009. 
• Solo presentation on Ragas and Tagore in Dallas July 2009.
• Directed and performed at Rabindra Utsav 2009, a national festival of theatre, dance and music.
  Presented a premier show on the concept of Robindro Raga; that is presenting Khayal in Ragas as they
  were conceived by Tagore. 
• Conceived and performed in special Peace concert – ‘A Shanti’ (a contemporized presentation on works
  of Tagore and others) on 26^th November 2009, with Dhritiman Chaterji, Raima Sen and Pramita Mallick.
  The concert was organized to commemorate the 1^st Anniversary of the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks on
  6/11/2008. The concert was organized by ALSOC on the St. Xavier’s school grounds, Kolkata. 
• Performed and directed show ALLITERATIONS (a concept fusing English poetry and Tagore’s
  compositions) for the Tagore Society – Singapore, with Pramita Mallick and actor Barun Chanda. 
• Solo recital at ICCR Kolkata at a concert titled ‘Tomari Ragini’. Sounak presented the Raga
 -Rabindrasangeet interactions in a solo presentation with his own Rabindra Raga compositions,
  traditional classical bandishes and Rabindrasangeet.
• Performed classical music at Uttarpara Sangeet Sammelan – January 2010, sharing stage with the likes
  of Ust. Rashid Khan, and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia.
• Presented Raga Rhapsodies with Smarajit Sen (sitar) at Netaji Bhavan, Kolkata. The concert was a
  fusion between Indian Classical Ragas and Western Symphonies.
• Presented and performed in SPRINGS OF LOVE, Sounak’s second Valentine’s Day special at
  Kalamandir, Kolkata. This time, the theme was Indian classical music and dance. Co-artists were
  Purbayan Chatterjee, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Subhajyoti Guha, Anubrata Chatterjee, Rupashree Bhattacharya
  and Smt. Veena Kichlu.

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