Grand Prize winner of the 2025 CAG-YCAT Competition, Samrat Majumder is a Scottish-Indian classical guitarist. Internationally, Samrat has won several prizes in competitions across Europe. These include: 1st Prizes at Iserlohn; LIGITA; Baltic Guitar Festival; Harmonia Cordis; Twents; Aalborg and 2nd Prizes at Koblenz (including the Savarez Bach Prize); Groningen; Plovdiv; Sarajevo; Uppsala.

Currently studying Konzertexamen at the Robert Schumann Hochshule, Düsseldorf, Samrat also holds a MMus from Royal Conservatoire in the Hague (cum laude) and a BMus with First Class Honours from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.