Nitin Mitta

Nitin Mitta is a Hindustani tabla player known as both a soloist and an accompanist. He received his early training in Hyderabad from Pandit G. Satyanarayana, gave his first solo performance at the age of ten and won first prize at the All India Competition in Calcutta, and later studied with Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar of Mumbai; both of his gurus are disciples of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan of the Farukhabad gharana. He has accompanied Pandit Jasraj, Dr. Prabha Atre, Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ustad Shahid Parvez, as well as the Carnatic musicians Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, and recorded the album Tirtha with pianist Vijay Iyer and guitarist R. Prasanna. After moving to the United States in 2002 he received a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on Arts and taught on the faculty of the Learn Quest Academy of Music in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, UCLA's Royce Hall, the Smithsonian and the Music Academy in Chennai.