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. Nikhil Bannerjee and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and a distinguished sitar player in his own right, having established himself as a highly respected teacher and performer in Europe, the USA, as well as in India. Purbayan now takes lessons with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. From a very young age, Purbayan had already begun to display an uncanny skill for all the virtuous and artistic dimensions of the Sitar. He plays in an aesthetically satisfying style. Nikhil Bannerjee, whom he considers his God. Although a Sitar Player by profession, he remains an astonishing vocalist to this day, with a God-given voice acknowledged by the top maestros in India. Along with the rigorous honing of his talent by his father, Purbayan remained a topper throughout his academic career in school and the prestigious Presidency College, Kolkata. But his decision to take up Indian Classical Music as a profession became firm at the age of 14, when he received the most coveted honour, the President of India Award, for being the best instrumentalist of the country. Alongside his solo concerts, he has been part of groups such as Shastriya Syndicate and Stringstruck, which introduce fresh ideas to classical music. His album Stringstruck and the track Dwo received wide attention, and Dwo is also a sitar-inspired instrument he designed. Full profile at Indian Classical Network: https://indianclassical.net/a/purbayan-chatterjee Full profile at