biography
Samrat Majumder is a Scottish-Indian classical guitarist. Currently studying Konzertexamen at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf, with Professor Alexander Ramirez, Samrat also holds a MMus from Royal Conservatoire in the Hague (cum laude) under the tutelage of Professor Enno Voorhorst and a BMus from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) (with Honours of the First Class) having previously studied with Professor Allan Neave. During his time at the RCS, Samrat was awarded the “Governors Recital Prize” for Strings in 2020. Prior to higher education, Samrat studied with Peter Stewart at the Junior School of the RCS.
In May 2025 Samrat was announced as a new artist for the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) following his performance at Wigmore Hall, London. In addition, as the first recipient of the YCAT 40th Anniversary Artist, Samrat becomes joint YCAT – Concert Artists Guild (USA) artist for 2025.
Samrat is the Classical Guitar Ambassador for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a D’Addario sponsored artist. Samrat performs with guitars by renowned English luthier, Michael Gee.
First Prizes
XXV Concours international de guitare d’Antony, including Audience Award (France, 2025)
VI Deutscher Gitarrenpreis (Germany, 2024)
XIII International Martinez Guitar Competition Iserlohn (Germany, 2024)
XII LIGITA International Guitar Competition (Liechtenstein, 2024)
XIV Baltic Guitar Festival International Competition (Lithuania, 2023)
XVII Harmonia Cordis International Guitar Competition (Romania, 2022)
XVII Twents Festival International Guitar Competition (The Netherlands, 2022)
III Aalborg International Guitar Competition, including Audience Award (Denmark, 2021)
Second Prizes
XXXII Koblenz International Guitar Competition Hubert Käppel,
including Prix Savarez for the best interpretation of music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany, 2024)
IV Groningen Guitar Competition (The Netherlands, 2024)
IV Plovdiv International Classical Guitar Competition “GuitArt” (Bulgaria, 2023)
XII Sarajevo International Guitar Competition (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023)
XIX Uppsala “International Young Talents Competition” (Sweden, 2022)
IX RAGO International Guitar Competition (Germany, 2017)
Indian Mentorship Programme
One of the most important projects to Samrat is his work with young, aspiring, talented Indian classical guitarists. Samrat runs a mentorship programme that offers select Indian classical guitarists regular lessons as well as opportunities to connect with Professors and Institutions in Europe with the prospect of them applying for higher education studies abroad in the future. Samrat hopes to promote and connect these young Indian talents to Western Institutions so that they may act as future ambassadors and role models to classical guitarists in India.
Event and Festival Organising in India
Alongside this mentorship programme, Samrat is involved in the organisation of classical guitar events and festivals in India. From 2022 – 2024, Samrat worked as one of the festival directors of the “Art Guitar Festival Series” which ran for three consecutive years in Kolkata and Delhi. This festival featured concerts from international artists from Chile, Italy, USA, UK, Germany and India. Samrat is currently working towards new ventures in festival organisation projects within India, soon to be announced.
Schedule
24 May 2026
Music at the Green
Partickhill, UK
17 June 2026
Westbourne Music Concert Series
Glasgow, UK
26 June 2026
Reform Club Recital
London, UK
29 June 2026
Harrogate International Festival – Chairman’s Reception
Harrogate, UK
2 July 2026
Clifford Chance
London, UK
4 July 2026
Thaxted Festival
Thaxted, UK
10 July 2026
Refugee Tales
Chichester, UK
12 July 2026
Music on the Quantocks
Broomfield, UK
14 July 2026
Searcys YCAT Concert
London, UK
15 July 2026
Lichfield Festival
Lichfield, UK
16 July 2026
Cambridge Summer Music
Cambridge, UK
contact
UK and Europe
Etta Dainty – Senior Artist Manager
etta@ycat.co.uk
Joe Linton – Assistant Artist Manager
joe@ycat.co.uk