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Sayan brought the classical sitar to one of cricket's grandest stages, performing alongside Bollywood icon Shreya Ghoshal in a rare fusion of Hindustani tradition and contemporary music before tens of thousands.
A landmark performance of surbahar at one of India's most prestigious diplomatic cultural platforms.
Boone, Raleigh, Austin, Houston, Atlanta, Rochester and beyond — pioneering the sitar in landmark American venues.
For Sayan Ghosh, the sitar is not an instrument — it is a living dialect. Rooted in the gayaki ang of the Etawah–Imdadkhani Gharana, his music breathes the way the human voice breathes: with longing, restraint, and sudden, unbridled release.
Every raga is a precise emotional territory — a landscape that a true musician must inhabit completely before inviting an audience in. Sayan's performances are not recitals. They are rituals of deep listening.
Music is the silence between the notes — my sitar only illuminates what was always already there.
— Sayan GhoshThe Etawah tradition demands that every note carry the weight of a sung syllable. Sayan's right hand never simply plucks — it inflects, it slides, it whispers. The sitar becomes voice.
Etawah–Imdadkhani GharanaA raga is not a scale — it is a complete emotional world with its own grammar, its own time of day, its own season. Sayan constructs these worlds note by note, inviting listeners to inhabit them fully.
Hindustani ClassicalOn the surbahar — the bass sitar — Sayan enters the lowest registers of classical music, where tempo dissolves and each note reverberates for what feels like an eternity. Rare. Profound.
Alap · Dhrupad StyleFrom G20 summits to the IPL stage, from intimate house concerts in North Carolina to Dover Lane's revered halls — Sayan carries the living flame of the gharana into every corner of the world.
G20 · IPL 2025 · USA ToursFounded in 2017 in Kolkata, the Academy offers deeply personal sitar education — for learners aged 3 to 80, whether you're a curious beginner or an advanced student refining your raaga.
One-to-one guidance in the traditional guru-shishya spirit, adapted for modern learners worldwide.
Branches in Dunlop and Konnagar, plus global online classes connecting students across 12 countries.
Teaching the vocal-instrumental approach that sets the Etawah gharana apart — music as human expression.