Priyant Sundas

Guitar, Hindustani, Piano - Berklee School of Music

A Berklee School of Music Grad, Priyant is both a Western Jazz Musician and a Hindustani Classical Performer...

<p class="font_8">Priyant Sundas is a Professional Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer/Arranger, Recording Artist, and a Performer. He started learning guitar at the age of 4 with his father. Priyant graduated from the Berklee College of Music, Boston, majoring in Professional Music, focused on Performance, Jazz Composition, and Songwriting. Mr. Sundas is a member of the Grammy U Recording Academy, a recipient of the International Berklee Asian Scholarship Award, and a recipient of the National Award from Shankar Mahadevan and TATA Capitols in India, for being a Young Artist with an Extraordinary Contribution in the field of Music. While a student at Berklee, Priyant was placed on the Dean’s list several times, and also received the Berklee Achievement Grant.&nbsp;In addition to his musical qualifications and degree, Mr. Sundas also holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Business Administration, majoring in Finance.&nbsp;As a Performer, Priyant had an opportunity to collaborate with various Globally Renowned Musicians such as Rosanne Cash, Esperanza Spalding, Dr. Prakash Sontakke, Annette Philip (Berklee Indian Ensemble), and Barbara Lafitte, to name a few. Priyant’s musical styles widely range from Rock, Funk, RnB, Jazz, Songwriting, and Fusion, to Indian Classical, enhanced heavily by improvisational techniques. Recently, Priyant was selected as a semi-finalist for one of his songs, ‘Maya’, in the World Music category for the Nashville-based Unsigned Only Music Competition, for which over 7000 entries were received world-wide. As an artist, Priyant believes in reaching out to people, giving them joy, hope, positive emotions, and spreading love through music.</p>