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SHYAM SUNDER GOSWAMI(Hindusthani classical vocalist)

Shyam Sundar Goswami is trained in the tradition of Kirana Ghrana. He studied Indian classical music at Rabindra Bharati University in Calcutta (Kolkata), from where he got a Honors degree in Hindustani classical music and then specialized in Khayal, the most appreciated and the most elegant form of Indian classical music. It is the style of the great vocal maestros who can use all the subtleties of the technique" (Alain Daniélou: The Music of North India, 1968). Shyam Sundar Goswami successfully obtained the M.A. degree in Khayal, his specialty. He is a master of Kyhal, Thumris and Bahjaans.

He has become an excellent teacher himself and has educated children, especially those who struggle to study in spite of financial difficulties. He has taught the children at the Study House and Training Center of the Noviciate of Barasat for three years as well as those at Ashalayam in Kolkata who are street children and at Rainbow School in Loreto Sealdah. In addition, he gives private tuitions.

In 2000, Syham Sundar Goswami sang at the "Biswa Bango Samelan" Festival at Rabindra Sadan, Calcutta.

Among his many public performances in and around Calcutta were memorable ones organized in the historical Rajbari palaces of North Calcutta in 2003 and 2004: At Natmandir in November 2003, at Madan Mahan Thakurabri in March 2004, at Chattubabu Latubabu Rajbar in September 2004 and at the historical Sree Sree Krishna Jew of Shovabazar in December 2004, to name just a few. On July 1, 2004 Shyam Sundar Goswami gave a special concert in the memory of Prabhas Sen at the residence of Mrs. Ruby Pal Choudhuri. On June 10, 2006 Shyam Sundar Goswami had been invited by the Governor of West Bengal, Sree Gopal Krishna Gandhi, to perform at "Flag Staff House" Barrackpore