Anjan Chattopadhyay, the sitar player, born in a Bengali aristocratic family in Calcutta, India, was initiated to the art of sitar playing by his elder brother, a veteran Surbahar player, Pandit Gourisankar Chattopadhyay, a disciple of Pandit Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury. In addition to that he started taking further training from Vidushi Kalyani Roy, a reputed sitarist and one of the few disciples of Ustad Vilayat Khan. He also had lessons in vocal music from late Muktipada Datta, a representative of Agra Gharana. Anjan also learned tabla under the late Ustad Shaukat Ali Khan of Farukhabad gharana. Anjan lives in Calcutta. Performance Anjan has performed in hundreds of concerts in India and abroad. Among them worthy of mentions are some of his concerts in India: The Dover Lane Music Conference India International Center, New Delhi All India Music Festival Kal-Ke- Kalakar Music Conference, Mumbai Salt Lake Music Conference National Council of Performing Arts, Mumbai West Bangal Government State Music Academy Indian Council For Cultural Relations Alliance Francaise Ustad Bahadur Khan Music Conference Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram South Bengal Music Conference Ustad Keramatullah Khan Memorial Conference Bhartiya Sanskriti Parishad, Nagpur Jhankar Music Circle, Kolkata Swami Haridas Music Conference Shree Aurobindo Ashram. Calcutta Raipur Music festival, M.P. Ustad Amir Khan Music Conference. Calcutta Swar Sadhna Samiti. Mumbai Sur Singar Samsad Mumbai Kalabharati, Mumbai Pandit Montu Banerjee memorial music conference Sangeet Natak Academy, Lucknow Sankalp Music Festival. Sagar, M.P. Guru Poornima Festival, Patna Sangati Center Vistar Music Conference, Kolkata Camp Vatsayan, Benaras, etc. etc. Awards, honors In his musical career, Anjan has got numerous awards, and felicitations. The chronology of awards are as follows: In 1986, he was awarded the first prize in All India Music Competition organized by the State Music Academy of West Bengal Government. In 1987, he was felicitated with the title ‘SURMANI’ after performing at Kal-Ke-Kalakar music festival in Mumbai. In 1988, he was awarded with the title ‘Sangeet Visharad’ by Pracheen Kalakendra, Chandigarh. In the same year he got ‘Sangeet Kriya Visharad’ title from Sourav Academy Board, Kolkata. On this occasion, the renowned violinist Padmabhushan Pandit V. G. Jog felicitated him after his concert. In 1990, during his tour to U.S.A, the Academy of Indian Music and Fine Arts and University of Maryland, Baltimore County felicitated him with the certificate of Achievement. In that year he got the opportunity to be honored with the GOVERNOR’S CITATION from the Honorable