Neil Mukherjee

Neil Mukherjee is a guitarist and an award-winning composer from Kolkata. Best known for his flamenco, Neil is a Grade 8 in western classical guitar and music theory from Trinity College of Music, London and can play various styles of music with ease on the guitar including the Indian classical forms. Gifted a guitar for Durga puja by his Grandmother at 11 yrs of age (instead of the customary clothes), he started playing the instrument. Initiated to it by his maternal uncle Goutam Chatterjee, Neil studied with various people at different stages of his musical journey. During his teenage years, he was gifted a classical guitar by Arunendu Das, an architect and a brilliant song writer living in London. This was a major turning point for Neil and helped him acquire the necessary skills of flamenco classical guitar and other finger styles. Neil also attributes his success to Soumya Dagupta, also an architect, a rock guitar player and the son of a revered Bengali music director, with whom he played his first professional gig as a bass player. A founder member of the popular Kolkata rock band Krosswindz, Neil wrote and composed, as well as played in all the songs of the album “Poth Geche Benke”,1996, which became a cult classic.