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. He is a leading disciple of Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh, a doyen of Indian Classical Music. Abhijit also learned vocal from Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty and violin

Violin

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 from Guru Ma Annapoorna Devi.

He has accompanied maestros such as Pt.Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

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, late Pt.Nikhil Banerjee

Nikhil Banerjee

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, Begum Parveen Sultana

Parveen Sultana

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, Pt.Jasraj, Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Dr. Balamurali Krishnan. Abhijit has established himself as major solo tabla player and has performed in major festivals in India. Abijit has toured extensively in USA , Canada

Canada

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 , U.K. , Europe

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 , Japan

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 , Australia

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 , South Africa

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 , South East Asia and Mexico

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Abhijit has collaborated in the world crossover music. Released Cd with Ry Cooder( water Lily Acoustics). Larry Corryell. He has participated in Womad Festival with Trilok Gurtu. His other main CDs include Peshkash, ( bihan music), TARANG ( tim germany), Hollow bamboo ( water lily acoustics),Teentaal ( Peshkar germany), True rhythms of India ( BMG CRESCENDO) etc.

He has his own touring ensemble named Tarang and he is also member of Raga Jazz group, Arohi Ensemble.He has founded the Dhwani Academy of Percussion Music (Dhwani literally means Klang). This is mainly a percussion academy inclined to teach Tabla ( Indian Drum) along with other Indian percussion instruments like Pakhwaj, Ghatam etc. Dhwani is in India and also in Los Angeles and New York. India academy was established in 2001 and Los Angeles academy was established in 2004 end. new York was established after two years of LA.
Other than teaching and research, the academy in India gives free teaching to visually challenged students for last 10 years. www.dhwaniacademy.net
As a composer Abhijit has scored music for TV serials in India, Documentary film ( TRAIL-which got National award), Tele films, Dramas produced by KatKatha ( New Delhi), Whittier College drama Dept ( Iphigenia and other sisters) and some more project like Bengali Diaspora by Monalisa Dasgupta
Through this school he conducts workshops and classes all over the world.
He was in Bali as an Apex fellow from UCLA and interacted with Balinese musicians like Dewa Brata and Cudamani group.
He is a graduate in English literature and post graduate in Journalism.