Milind Date is one of the most versatile musicians from India. Today, he has carved a niche for his excellent abilities of Bansuri - Bamboo Flute playing and composing. Milind is a senior performing disciple of world famous Bansuri virtuoso - Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. With  more than 2000 performances to his credit, Milind has several award winning albums to his credit too, His concerts are usually energy packed and the crowd involvement is surely exciting !!

                     
                          With Pt. Hariji & Ustad Zakir Hussain                          In rehearsal with Asha Bhosale
 

                               
                              Performing with Jagjit Singh                                      In a studio with Gulam Ali     

Milind has studied not only Indian classical and folk music. He has studied and featured in different styles of music from all over the world. Indian Classical Music, Indian Folk Music, Devotional Music, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Fusion-World Music, and Free Music are the common types in which he is seen performing and recording. An accomplished, versatile composer and arranger, Milind has experimented with several music and dance forms in as showcased in his band Fusion Ensemble.

This experimental trait has led him to incorporate various dance forms and instruments and perform with several musicians from around the world. Milind has composed music for several short films and documentaries too One of these documentaries was on The Dalai Lama and other one on Dr. Shardchandra Dicksheet the well-known Plastic Surgeon.

                 
                          His Holy Highness The Dalai Lama                                 With Maestro M F Husain  

                  
                          With Trumpet Queen Saskia Laroo                                  With Lama Nawang Khechog

Some of the famous Music Festivals Milind has performed....

    The famous Haeinsa Concert with 108 Singers and Bowl Players - Korea

Milind has performed at many prestigious venues and occasions for many international companies....

Milind has had opportunity to work with some of the greatest musicians in the world. In his many International travels he has worked with many artists - musicians too.

India - Pakistan - Asha Bhosale, Jagjit Singh, Ghulam Ali, Pt. Hridaynaath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar, Kalyanji Anandji, Yashvant Deo, Ram Kadam, Bhaskar Chandawarkar, Peanaaz Masani, Suresh Wadkar,  Derek Julien, Roger Dragonette,  Taufiq Qureshi, Shiv Mani, and Painters like MF Hussain, Udayraaj Gadnis, Achut Palav, Milind Mulick

Brazil - Alviro Alavares the Weather Report –Santana Percussionist - Nivedano, Bodhigeeta, Korea- Beik in Young, Lim won Sik, Park je Chun, Mi Yeon, Lim dong Chan, Roh young Sim, Choi Sori, Yeoum, Song Gyu, Kim Jin Mook, Madhura Jin Bora, Park Chan Su, Yu Kyung Hwa, Heoh Yoon Jeong, Lee Ki Hwa, Maestro Kim De Hwan Iran - Iraq Zhubin Kalhor, Mohmed Alnuma, – Morocco – Isreal -   Ramadhan Meir Suisa, Yamat, UK- Karen ‘Tanmayo’ Boyd, Chinmaya Dunster, Mike Turnbull, Lucy Johnson, USA – Warren Byrd, Anant Jesse, Angeli, Joe Foster, Denmark – Ageha, Dinesh, Preetam, Australia- Bhakta, Bharati, Germany – Jurgen Ohnemus, Buddhen Gobbles, Amreesh Leib, Prem Joshua, Disha, Helmut Beiler-Wendt, Peter Hollinger, Mizuki Walderhard, Canada – Gnethan Jeiman, Arjun Dassault, Netherlands - Saskia Laroo, Devapath Van Riel, Japan - Sato Yuki, Satygyan, Mitsutaka Ishii, Mukai Chie, Kojima Takashi, Chino Shuchi,  Aai Onogi, O Hoshi, Tibet- Nawang Khechog, Dechen Shak Dagsay, Chuki Tethong, China –Zhenfang Zhang, Xu Fengxia, Tu Shang Xian [Kitaro],  Mexico- Gustavo Aguilar

                       
                               With a Jazz Band in Korea                          Orientillica - The Oriental Philharmonic Orchestra

In the spiritual world, Milind has been exceptionally fortunate to get blessings from and offer his musical skills specially for the Masters and mentors like His Holy Highness The Dalai Lama, Osho Bhagawan Rajaneesh, Shri Shri Ravi Shankarji, and Sadhu Vaswani. Some time ago, as Milind was to compose music for the film on The Dalai Lama, Milind had this great opportunity to see His Holy Highness The Dalai Lama at his Royal palace in Dharamshala.

Many masters, dignitaries and important people have enjoyed Milind's performances...here is a small list ...

Personalities :- Pt Bhimsen Joshi, Baba Amate, Yash Chopra, Vinod Khanna, Pooja Bhatt, Jacke Shroff, Sanjay Dutt, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Nana Patekar, American Consulate General, William Kline - Consul for Financial affairs of USA to India, Sharad Pawar, Suresh Kalmadi, Ambassadors of many, many countries abroad, President of Commonwealth Games Committee and many more...
 

Corporate  icons :- Rahul Bajaj, Kirloskars, Balaji Rao of Venkatshwara Hatcheries, Baba Kalyani, Lee family of Samsung [in Korea], Mandar Agashe of Brihans, Lee Jung Heum of SeMiRang Korea. Sohrab Chinoy of ABC Farms, Rumi Contractor, Jeff Wolfers, Ignacio Vera, Ram Kumar, of HSBC, Ganesh Natarajan of Zensar, Pankaj Dhume of BMC Software, Ashutosh Parasnees of PTC, Ashwin Deo of Moitie Hennessey, Vivek Talghatti of Rapidigm, Senior management of KPIT Cummins, Paresh Parasnees of HDFC, Shyam Kundapurkar of Codito-Texas Instruments, In Korea- Bernard van Bunnik of GE, Srinivasan K, Vivek Chand of Stanchart Bank Shrikant Krishnan of Citibank, Jahangir Tankariwala of HSBC Bank, Lekhu Sachanandani of Pfizer, V Manikantan and many, many more