Abhik Mukherjee Sitar Artist

Abhik Mukherjee is a sitar artist from the younger generation of the Imdadkhani gharana. He is based in New York and available for concerts, recordings, and lessons. Abhik Mukherjee hails from the great Etawah-Imdadkhani gharana of sitar and surbahar and is a rising talent among the younger generation. He was initiated into sitar at the age of six, by his father, Sri Tarit Kumar Mukherjee, and Sri Bimal Chatterjee. He simultaneously received vocal training from Sri Kalyan Bose. He is presently taking talim under Pandit Kashinath Mukherjee (a leading disciple of Sitar Maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan and vocalist Ustad Amir Khan) and from Pandit Arvind Parikh. He has received valuable musical guidance from Sarod Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. He has also received blessings from none other than the late sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan. Abhik is a disciple of the Imdadkhani Gharana which has also nutured such artists as Ustad Vilyat Khan, Ustad Shahid Pervez, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee, and his gurus Pandit Arvind Parikhji and Pandit Kashinath Mukherjee.