About me

Debanjan was initiated to SARODE, at a tender age of 5 yrs, under the guidance of Late Ustad Dhyanesh Khan. After his sad demise and till date, he is under the tutelage of Ustad Aashish Khan and Smt. Ameena Perera of Maihar Senia Gharana. He has also participated in various workshops conducted by the Legendary Late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

 

 

Achievements

 

 

• Won the FIRST prize in a competition of Indian Instrumental Classical music organised by Baba Allaudin Khan Memorial Committee, in collaboration with Rajya Sangeet Academy, Kolkata, in the year 1996.
• He was awarded the National Scholarship of Music from the Centre for Cultural Resources & Training (CCRT), New Delhi in 1997.
• In 2006, he secured the FIRST position (thereby winning the Pt. Nikhil Banerjee Memorial Trophy) in the Instrumental Classical Music competition, organised by The Dover Lane Music Conference, a premier music organisation of Kolkata.
• Debanjan has earned the FIRST position (President’s Gold Medal) in the prestigious music competition held by the All India Radio in the year 2008.
• He is also an empanelled artiste under the Indian Council for Cultural Resources (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.
• ITC – Sangeet Research Academy (West) & Acharya Allaudin Music Circle, Mumbai has conferred upon him the “Acharya Allaudin Khan Memorial” Award, after being declared 1st in the AIR competition.
• He is now a graded artiste with the All India Radio & Doordarshan, Kolkata.
• An album in the name of ‘Tradition Unfolds’ has been released by Bihaan Music, Kolkata.

 

 

Abroad Visit

 

 

Invited by Riksconserter, affiliated to the cultural wing of the Govt. of Sweden to participate in the prestigious & renowned international music festivals of

• Musik vid Siljan, Rättviksparken
• Bingsjöstämman, Bingjso
• Music festival at Sollidenskanen, Skansen, Stockholm
• At Segrola Church, Skansen, Stockholm

 

 

Outside his hometown Kolkata – national level

 

 

Performed at the prestigious stage of:

• India Habitat Centre (Habitat World), New Delhi, March’10.
• National Centre for Performing Arts, (NCPA), Mumbai, January’09
• India International Centre, New Delhi, July’09. The performance was reviewed very positively by the newspaper Janasatta of New Delhi.
• Epicentre, Gurgaon, March’10.
• Indian Institute of World Culture – Bangalore, June’10
• The Bengal Association – Chennai, June’10.
• IIT- Kharagpur in the occasion of Indo-US symposium, January’09.

 

 

Within his hometown

 

 

Performed at the prestigious stage of:

• “Shastriya Sangeet Sammelan - 2009” conducted by the Paschim Banga Rajya Sangeet Academy (under Govt. Of West Bengal) at Rabindra Sadan, Kolkata, January ‘09
• “Radhika Mohan Moitra Sangeet Sammelan”, January ‘09 at Madhusudan Manch, Kolkata.
• All Bengal Music Conference, Kolkata, July ‘09
• Vivekananda Hall, Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata, August ’09, to pay tribute & homage to the legendary Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
• Salt Lake Music Festival 2009, EZCC, Kolkata, December ’09.
• University Institute Hall, Bengal Engineering & Science University (BESU), Shibpore under the banner of SPICMACAY ‘08.
• Given his first public performance in presence of luminaries like Ust. Ali Akbar Khan, Sri Mrinal Sen, Sri Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Pt. Sankar Ghosh, Pt Buddhadeb Dasgupta and a capacity crowd at Nazrul Manch, Kolkata, January ‘03.
• Uttam Mancha, Kolkata, March ‘06 under the banner of “The Dover Lane Music Conference – Periodic Session” sharing the stage with stalwarts like Pt. Manas Chakraborty & Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty.

 

 

Academics

 

 

• He is currently pursuing his post graduation degree course in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpore.