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Profile

Purbayan Chatterjee is one of the most promising young sitar maestros.

Purbayan Chatterjee was born in a musical family in Calcutta in 1976. His father, Parthapratim Chatterjee is a disciple of Pt Nikhil Bannerjee and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Purbayan has been trained by his father and recently by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. He has also received guidance from vocalist Pt Ajoy Chakraborty and tabla maestro Pt Anindo Chatterjee.

At such a young age, Purbayan displays remarkable maturity and has been performing in various concerts and music festivals all over India and abroad. He serious and meditative style shows the influence of legendary sitarist Pt Nikhil Bannerjee.

Related Artists

Teachers & Influences	Partha Chatterjee (father), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pt Anindo Chatterjee, Pt Ajoy Chakrabarty
Disciples & Followers
Similar Artists	Anoushka Shankar, Shubhendra Rao
Worked With	Pt Kumar Bose (tabla), Satyajit Talwalkar (tabla)

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