Calcutta-based Kishore Chatterjee is a painter, cartoonist, short story writer, filmmaker, and a grand passioné of Western classical music.
Since 1970, he has given talks and anchored programmes on Western classical music , including a series on Wagner, Bach, Beethoven, opera and well-known music critics, and another light-hearted one titled ‘Who is afraid of the Bach tribe?’ over All India Radio.
During a visit to London and Europe 
on a music scholarship, he also lectured 
on record collecting over the BBC.
He is regularly invited to speak on Western classical music at Max Muller Bhavan, British Council, Jadavpur University, Calcutta University and many other cultural and academic institutions.
Since 1997, he has been a regular columnist on Western classical music, contributing two milestone series: ‘Classical Gas’ and ‘Strings Attached.’
The grandson of Sunayani Devi, sister of Abanindranath and Gaganendranath Tagore, and the first modern Indian woman artist, his mission in life is to win friends over for Western classical music and communicate its enjoyment through the written word, lectures, films, drama and painting.