Abhijit Banerjee (musician)
Abhijit Banerjee is a leading tabla player in India. He started learning Tabla at the age of four.He received his first instruction from Tushar Kanti Bose and later from Manik Pal. Abhijit also learned vocal from Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty and violin from Guru Ma Annapoorna Devi.
He has accompanied maestros such as Pt.Ravi Shankar, late Pt.Nikhil Banerjee, Begum Parveen Sultana, Pt.Jasraj, Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Dr. Balamurali Krishnan. Abijit has toured extensivelly in USA , Canada , U.K. , Europe , Japan , Australia , South Africa , South East Asia and Mexico.
He has his own touring ensemble named Tarang and he is also member of Raga Jazz group, Arohi Ensemble.He has founded founded the Dhuwani Tabla School (Dhuwani literally means Klang). Through this school he conducts workshops and classes all over the world. He is a graduate in English literature and post graduate in Journalism.