Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University

The Department of Instrumental Music at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata was established in 1976.

The department offers teaching in sitar, sarod, violin, flute and esraj under the ‘Tata-Sushir Wing’.

Department provides additional support to weaker students by arranging special tutorials.

This is also an identifying process to plan the special classes for weaker and exceptionally good students.

The department is planning to launch a project to open up a kind of country-wide performance space for the outstanding students.

or those already cleared NET National Eligibility Test of University Grants Commission, India.

Notable musicians and thinkers visit the department for workshops, seminars, concerts and lectures.

Some of the past visitors include Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, V. G. Jog, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Zakir Hussain, Swapan Chaudhuri and Philip Bohlman from the University of Chicago.