Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan is an Indian classical singer and teacher from the Kirana musical style.
[1] As the grandson of Abdul Karim Khan, a founder of the Kirana style, he is a descendant of the gharana's family lineage.
[2][3] Mashkoor Ali Khan performs as an A-grade artist with All India Radio, and is on the faculty of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy,[4] a prominent institution of Indian Classical Music, as their senior teacher of the Kirana style.
Notable students include his nephews Amjad Ali Khan[7] and Arshad Ali Khan, Sandip Bhattacharjee, the late Shanti Sharma,[5] and the American composer/pianist Michael Harrison who he has also performed with.
The Salt Lake Cultural Association of Kolkata gave him the title of Bandish Nawaz[11] in 1998, and Sangeet Ratna in 2002.