Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
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Sanjoy Bandopadhyay is a Hindustani classical sitar player. He is Chair Professor Ustad Allauddin Khan Chair and Head at the Department of Instrumental Music of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata India.
Bandopadhyay was first taught by his father Peeyush Prasanna Bandopadhyay, and went on to study with maestros such as Radhika Mohan Maitra and Bimalendu Mukherjee. He also had additional training from Manas Chakravarty, Ajay Sinha Roy and M. R. Gautam.
He has performed in many major music festivals in India and in the European countries, Canada and in the USA. He is often invitated to important global events, like the 2003 plenary session of the UNESCO conference in Finland. He has released a number of CDs on major labels both in India and the US. He has received invitation from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada to visit their campus as an Distinguished India-Focus Visitor. He often takes part in international conferences on music and academics, and for example presented in September, 2004 at the XIIIth International Conference of the German Musicological Society in Weimar. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invited him as George A. Miller Visiting Professor in October, 2005. He is also involved in a number in collaborative research projects at the national and international levels.
Bandopadhyay's musical style is sometimes characterised as post-modern, as a result of his training in several gharanas: Senia-Shahjehanpur, Imdadkhani and Rampur-Senia.
He is a pioneer in making available Indian music teaching available online in real-time mode.
