Prabir Bhattacharya is a professional sitar player based out of the IT capital of India, Bangalore. His journey in music started in the year 1988 at the age of 12, with his father Shri Amal Kr Bhattacharya. Under the guidance of internationally acclaimed sitar maestro, Pt Deepak Choudhury (senior-most disciple of Pt Ravi Shankar), he transformed into an artist of great aesthetics. Awards: 1998 First Position with BA (Hons) in Instrumental Music from Ravindra Bharati University, Kolkata 1998 Awarded the Nikhil Banerjee and Nirod Baran Smriti Puroskar 1998 Awarded Sangeet Ratna by Sarba Bharatiya Sangeet o Sanskriti Parishad 1999 Recipient of National Scholarship by Deptt of Culture, Ministry of HRD, (Govt of India) 1999 Stood first in North Indian Music, National Unifest by Dept of Youth Affairs and Sports (Govt of India) 2000 Stood first in MA (Instrumental Music) from RBU; received Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan gold medal 2000 Titled as Sangeed Visharad by Pracheen Kala Kendra (Chandigarh) Granted B-High Grade position by AIR Performances: Russia Tour Concerts in Coimbatore (2011) Performed with Pt Deepak Choudhury Solo performances like Serampore Music conferences (1997–2000) Youth Festival (Kozhikode, Kerala) (1999) Uday Shankar Festival, 2000 Banaras Ganga Festival (2005) Satya Sai Baba Festival (Bangalore) (2005) Performed at Bangalore Habba (2006) Accompanied greats like Mandolin Srinivas and U Rajesh