Dr Rishi Ranjan

Music is the highest art and those who understand, is the highest worship. Quote by Swami Vivekanand.

Dr. Rishi Ranjan was born in Chandigarh, the first planned city of India, in a family with great love of traditional north Indian classical music and was introduced to this art at an early age of 5 by his elder brother who also trained in Indian music. He began with vocal music at home, and later became a disciple of his late uncle Pandit Shri Krishan Sharma, Senior music composer at All India Radio, Rohtak. 

He got more interested in instrumental music and became a disciple of Prof. Saroj Ghosh and Shri Subash Ghosh where he started his Indian classical music education in instrumental music. 

After completion of Bachelors in Music in vocal and instrumental, he went to Bombay and became a disciple of Shri Arshad Ahmed, Shri Chintoo Singh, Shri Jayanti Lal Goshar and Shri Dilip Nayar, the eminent guitarist, mandolin, rabab players, and music arrangers of Ghazal king, late Shri Jagjit Singh. 

In order to further his knowledge of various styles of playing guitar, rabab, and mandolin, Rishi continued his training with such masters of this art.

In 2003, Rishi got the golden opportunity to personally meet with Legend Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and his music passion turned towards learning Sarode. He then met his son, Ustad Aashish Khan, and became his disciple. Since 2004, Rishi has been tutored by Ustad Aashish Khan and his senior disciple Shri Atish Mukhopadhyay, to whom he owes most of his expertise in this field.