Bimalendu Mukherjee

Who is Bimalendu Mukherjee?

Bimalendu Mukherjee is world-renowned Hindustani classical sitar player, and a teacher of the Imdadkhani gharana,

Mukherjee is a learned and eclectic musician – although he was an Imdadkhani sitar student of Enayat Khan, a full list of his teachers also includes sitarist Balaram Pathak, khyal singers Badri Prasad and Jaichand Bhatt of the Patiala and Kirana gharanas, Rampur gharana beenkar Jotish Chandra Chowdhury, sarangi and esraj maestros Halkeram Bhat and Chandrikaprasad Dube and pakhavaj drummer Madhavrao Alkutkar. He also studied with Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, the zamindar of Gouripur in present-day Bangladesh, who taught him the moribund sursringar.

Mukherjee is the father and teacher of sitar player Budhaditya Mukherjee. His other students include Dr. Arvind V. Joshi, Aniruddha A. Joshi, Arun Moroney, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Pt. Sudhir Kumar, Anupama Bhagwat, Joydeep Ghosh, Madhusudan RS, Ravi Sharma, Rajeev Janardan, Kamala Shankar,K. Rohan Naidu, Brigitte Menon.