University Music sitar

An ardent love for music from childhood made him battle against all odds and on all fronts. Moreover, he did not hail from a family steeped in the practice of music. However, his family’s friendly nexus with Pandit Nikhil Banerjee earned him the privilege of learning the art of Sitar from Pandit Debiprasad Chatterjee, a close successor of Banerjee.

This was followed up by his receiving lessons in music from the late Pandit Niharbindu Chowdhury and the late Sangitacharya Ajay Sinha Roy, both veteran exponents of the Maihar School. He also received lessons in the intricacies of classical Indian rhythm from Pandit Anil Palit. .

His emergence as a new star on the firmament of classical Indian music seemed imminent with his superb solo performance in the presence of 1 lakh audience at the Youth Festival held at the Ranji Stadium, Calcutta, in 1978, and a three-hour solo Sitar recital at the Max Muller Bhavan, German Consulate, Calcutta, in 1980. Married and father of a son, Roy went on with his love for music and later on earned distinction with his solo performances at North Calcutta Music Conference; Ramakrishna Mission, Lucknow; National Seminar of Music, Lucknow; India International Centre, New Delhi; India Habitat Centre – HCL Concert, New Delhi; Attic, New Delhi; Epicentre, Gurgaon;, Swaralaya Christmas Fest, Pallakad, Kerala (2010), Soorya Festival at Trivandrum (2012), Sangeet Natak - Rasavikalpam Festival at Trishhur (2012) to name only a few of his performances in India.

Roy has also been giving performances abroad since 1996.

His major foreign performances include the ones given in different Embassies of Bangladesh,, Holland, Germany,Italy and concerts in Japan, Norway, France and many other parts of the globe on several occasions. He has been interviewed by Cataluniya Radio, Washington Bangla Radio, Time Out, Jadavpur University FM Radio (Calcutta), etc. He performed live on Albrez Television (Spain). Several of his performances were also broadcast by Wolverhampton City Radio (U.K.) and Radio ARA (Luxemberg). His awards include Best Instrumentalist Award, IIT (Madras) (1987); Pride of Region, Government of India; Sangeet Gaurav Award of the Award Council of India (2012), etc.

Roy is also a music therapist and a fusion composer and worked with Ananda Shankar in his orchestra . Recently Roy gave lecture demonstration at Dhaka university and peformed at ICCR BANGLADESH

ROY IS APOST GRADUATE IN ECONOMICS FROM CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY