A 4-day classical music workshop conducted by Suchisree Ray was held at Bengal Shilpalaya from 3 July. The free sessions focused on introducing the various genres of classical music to a class of 30 students who were screened at the beginning of the workshop.

Suchisree Ray is a significant arrival in the arena of north Indian classical music. In her able and arresting rendition of Khayal, Thumri, Kajri and Chaiti, she makes an amazing combination of a suavity of poetic feel and consummate skill by extracting the essential boldness of the Agra-Gwalior gayaki and eloquence of the Benaras style. Gifted with a melodious voice of rare texture and untiring taalim she infuses in her unique recital the magnificence of tradition and a contemporaneity that testify to her originality.