Bimalendu Mukherjee
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Bimalendu Mukherjee (1925–) is a Hindustani classical sitar player and teacher of the Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana (school), the father of Budhaditya Mukherjee.
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). Beside his son, his students include Dr.Arvind V Joshi Aniruddha A Joshi Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Anupama Bhagwat, Joydeep Ghosh, Rajeev Janardan Kamala Shankar.
He should not be confused with Bimal Mukherjee, a sitar player of the same generation.
^ The list was available on Budhaditya Mukherjee's [budhaditya.com] in 2006.
