Sitar, Surbahar Maestro and Guru Pandit Bimalendu Mukherjee

Pandit Bimalendu Mukherjee (2 January 1925 - 22 January 2010) is a Hindustani classical sitar virtuoso and Guru.

Mukherjee is a learned and eclectic musician – although he was an Imdadkhani sitar student of Ustad 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 Maestro 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.

On his Birth Anniversary, Hindustani Classical Music And Everything pays rich tributes to the Legend and are grateful for his contributions to the Hindustani Classical Music.