Purbayan Chatterjee

Purbayan Chatterjee gave his first sensational performance at the age of 5 at the India Festival in Basel in 1982. He is accepted as the most gifted torch‐bearer of the Senia‐Maihar Gharana (school) of Baba Alauddin Khan and has become a powerful force in the Indian Classical Music scenario. At the very age of 3, he surprised his family and friends with his extraordinary capacity to annotate every single song that he heard at that tender age. He was initiated into Sitar at 4 by his father, Shri Parthapratim Chatterjee, a disciple of Pt.