Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury

Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury (also written Sisirkana Dhar Choudhury; 27 December 1937 – 9 March 2021) Chowdhury was awarded the Sangeet Natak Academi Award in 1997 for her contribution to the field of Indian classical violin, and received the Dover Lane Music Conference's Sangeet Samman Award in 2017.

Training Chowdhury was seven years old when she began to play violin and vocal music. She later received training from V. G. Jog and Ali Akbar Khan, and wrote her book The Origin and Evolution of Violin As a Musical Instrument: And Its Contribution to the Progressive Flow of Indian Classical Music in 2010. After retiring from her post as a professor at Rabindra Bharati University in 1997 she moved to the US to join the faculty of the Ali Akbar College of Music and transcribe the music of Allauddin Khan from the collection there. Her transcriptions were of a unique quality because she trained under Khan's son, giving her special insight.