Sheema
Mukherjee began her study
of North Indian classical music at the
age of 5 with the guidance of one of the
greatest Indian classical vocalists,
Ustad Amir Khan.
She
was presented a sitar at the
age of nine by her illustrious uncle
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee,
under whom she began her study
of the sitar in the rigorous and
disciplined manner of traditional
Indian classical music teaching.