Name Bimalendu Mukherjee | Role Singer | |
Similar People Budhaditya Mukherjee, Anupama Bhagwat, Rajeev Janardan, Kamala Shankar, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay | ||
Bandish of pt bimalendu mukherjee performed by budhaditya mukherjee raga anandamayee 1989 wmv
Bimalendu Mukherjee (born January 2, 1925) is a Hindustani classical sitar player and music teacher.
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 (Maihar gharana) and Chandrikaprasad Dube (Gaya gharana) 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 (bass sarod).
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 (sarod), Ravi Sharma, Rajeev Janardan, Kamala Shankar,K. Rohan Naidu, Brigitte Menon.
He should not be confused with Bimal Mukherjee, a sitar player of the same generation.