Prof. Amiya Dasgupta was a distinguished North Indian musician, an artist on the sitar and surbahar, a teacher of other Indian instruments and a composer in Indian classical and European classical forms . He directed the Ravi Shankar Kinnara School of Indian Music in Bombay for six years, and there- after the Los Angeles branch, as well as the Sangeet School of Indian Music.

Amiya was one of Pt. Ravi Shankar's earliest disciples and associated with the celebrated sitarist for more than 20 years. Dasgupta assisted Shankar as an instructor of Indian music history at City College of New York and performed numerous projects, including the recordings Festival From India and Anthology of Indian Music. Dasgupta wrote the manual of the Ravi Shankar book My Music, My Life and edited Ravi Shankar Teaches. He accompanied Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin in the E.M.I. recording West Meets East, No. 3.

Amiya taught at California Institute of the Arts for 20 years, where he was deeply loved by both students and faculty. Our dear friend Amiya passed away on May 23, 1994.