Sreyash Sarkar

Sreyash Sarkar is an Indian Bengali poet and musical artist (Bengali:শ্রেয়স সরকার; born 20 September 1993). Sarkar has been published in international literary journals and has been featured as the youngest polymath in Education World Magazine and in the French world magazine, Le Mauricien among others.

Born to noted physicist professor of the University of Calcutta, Samir Kr. Sarkar and Pushpita Sarkar, a professor of Political Science at Bangabasi College, Sarkar grew up in Calcutta, India and studied at South Point School. From his school-life onwards, he was a student correspondent for Voices, the literary supplement of The Statesman, Calcutta, India. He received his initial musical training from his mother and later in Hindustani Classical Music in the Kirana and Gwalior gharanas, from Bidhan Chakrabarty, Rajyasree Ghosh, Sandip Ghosh, a disciple of Pt. A. Kanan and from Pt. Keerti Kumar Badsheshi, a disciple of Pt. Vinayak Torvi. His maternal grandaunt is the noted Hindustani Classical vocalist Padmashri Vidushi Sumitra Guha. He obtained his bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka. Having read letters of his great-grandaunt, the social activist and chairperson of the Committee of Status of Women in India, Phulrenu Guha, written while she was pursuing her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne, Sarkar was lured to the idea of moving to Paris, France. Finally in 2016, he did move to Paris to pursue his post graduate studies for his diplome d'ingenieur in Microelectronics and Nanotechnology at ESIEE Paris,where from he graduated in 2018 with top honours: mention très bien avec les félicitations du jury and is presently pursuing his PhD on Metamaterials.

Though Sarkar has been trained in Hindustani Classical Music and Rabindrasangeet, his published music albums are of crossover Western Classical genre. In 2017, Universal Records released his first single 'July' and then another single titled 'Simple Songs', came out in 2018 comprising three compositions in piano, clarinet and combining other atmospheric sounds. In an article reviewing Ludovico Einaudi's album Elements, Sarkar notes his understanding of music as a 'series of repetitions woven into absolute, simplicity of silence'. Andy Fischer of Score magazine reviewed Sarkar's Simple Songs, taking note of this 'relentless pursuit for the nature of simplicity'.