Ronu Majumdar is an Indian

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in the

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tradition.

Awards, nominations, and music collaborations

In 1981, Ronu Majumdar won the first prize at the

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competition, and the President's Gold Medal. He has associated with

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on albums like ''Passages'' and ''Chants of India''. He has more than 30 audio releases to his credit. He won the prestigious Aditya Vikram Birla Award in 1999 for his dedication to music.

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felicitated him with a lifetime achievement award on the occasion of Jyoti Diwas 2001. In 2014 he won the prestigious

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. Today, Ronu Majumdar is among the more popular musicians on this instrument, and is especially popular with the younger generation for his creative improvisations. Pt Majumdar's music is rooted in the

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which has musicians of eminence like Pt

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and Ustad

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to its credit. Apart from his concerts all over India in different music festivals, he also participated in the Festival of India in Moscow and

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in New Delhi. He has toured extensively in Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Majumdar is also known for a number of collaborations and

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s with other leading instrumentalists. An innovative composer, he has also composed several pieces in a fusion of Hindustani classical with other forms of music, particularly

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, including the projects ''Carrying Hope'' (

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), ''A Traveller's Tale'', ''Song of Nature'' (

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), ''Kal Akela Kahan'' (Plus Music). He has also provided short training sessions to budding young artists like

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from Singapore. Most recently Pt. Ronuji has conducted a concert of 5,378 flautists on one stage called Venu Naad under the banner of ‘ Art of Living’. This event was recorded in the ''

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''. He became a music producer for ''Nadi Ki Beti Sundari'' (''A Forgotten Daughter''), a Bollywood movie produced by

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References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Majumdar, Ronu 1965 births Indian flautists Bansuri players Musicians from Varanasi Hindustani instrumentalists Indian male classical musicians Indian classical composers Living people Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award