An Archival photo of Legendary Hindustani Classical Musicians;
From Left to Right ; Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Kishan Maharaj. 

Pandit Suresh Haldankar (18 December 1926 - 17 January 2000) of Goa was introduced to music by his family elders. Very early in his youth he excelled as an actor-singer in Marathi musicals and was offered a position in the Mahesh Natak Mandali of Pune. His initial musical mentors were Pt. Bapurao Ketkar and Pt. Govindrao Tembe, both senior musicians of the Atrauli-Jaipur school. Haldankar later took training under the Agra Gharana master, Pt. Jagannathbuwa Purohit (“Gunidas”), and still later, from Pt. Ganpatrao Dewaskar and Agrawale Ustad Anwar Hussain Khan.

Eminent Pakhawaj Maestro Pandit Mohan Shyam Sharma

Pandit Mohan Shyam Sharma (born 2 April 1966) is one of the leading Pakhawaj players of India. He hails from bharatpur district from Rajasthan. He learnt the pakhawaj from Pandit Tota Ram Sharma of Mathura. He also had the opportunity of learning pakhawaj from Pandit Prem Vallabh of delhi.

Pandit Debojyoti Bose, alias Tony, naturally inherits an unstrained musical acumen, for he was born in a family of passionate musicians,on the 20 December 1962 at Kolkata. He is the fourth generation musician in the Bose family. His great grandfather Sri Akshay Kumar Bose, a jaminder of Pankobil in Jessore, now in Bangladesh, had a great passion for tabla which was passed on to the generations that followed. That is how he is a born tabla player. His father Pandit Biswanath Bose a tabla legend of Benaras gharana, a disciple of Pandit Kanthe Maharaj and his mother Smt.

Vidushi Savita Devi also known as Savita Maharaj hailed from a well known musical family of Banaras Gharana that has produced many exponents of classical and light classical music during the last couple of centuries. Daughter of the late Padmashri Smt. Siddheshwari Devi, has not only inherited a rich tradition of classical music but was a vocalist of rare artistry in her own right. It will not be an exaggeration to say that she had her first lessons in the womb of her famous mother who was regarded as the reigning Queen of Thumri.