KUNAL GUNJAL (INDIA / USA)

www.kunalgunjal.com

Acclaimed and gifted Indian musician Kunal Gunjal is taking the ancient classical and Kashmiri folk instrument, the one hundred stringed santoor, to new directions and heights all while also staying true and pure to the centuries old raga tradition he learned within.  

Kunal Gunjal is an award winning Santoor artist and longtime disciple of the late great Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and has performed with Shivkumar Sharma on stage many times over the years.

In addition to accompanying his legendary guru at concerts, Kunal has performed in various prestigious music festivals and conferences like in the USA, India, UK and more including the Pune Festival, 17th Devnandan Ubhyakar Yuva Sangeet Utsav Festival organized by MUSIC TODAY, Ragas Live Festival in Brooklyn, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Ragamala Festival in Chicago and he has performed at the Gunidas Sangeet Samelan where he opened the festival for the Late Ustad Zakir Hussian. He has many accolades to his honor including the Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande Yuva Kalakar Puraskar and was also awarded at Vedic Heritage (NY, USA) by Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj. Kunal is also a recipient of the National Scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and the Sawai Gandharva Scholarship.

Kunal has produced an album, ‘Nature Of All Things’ which features Santoor with Western Film Score Music and orchestra first time ever which won the Global Music Award in “World Music” in 2019. This album has also been nominated for the  Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2019.