Welcome!
My name is Ritika Bhattacharjee (RIH-tih-kuh BAH-tuh-CHAR-jee), and I'm a Bengali-American composer, conductor, pianist, and mezzo-soprano based out of Austin, TX! I studied chemical engineering and music composition, and I love using the analytical lens of engineering in my art. I enjoy playing electric bass and inline skating and I also work as a business consultant.
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The Short Bio
Ritika Bhattacharjee is a Bengali-American composer, pianist, and mezzo-soprano who plays for dance productions and classes with Ventana Ballet and Austin Community Ballet, sings with Inversion ATX, Da Capo Ensemble, and Panoramic Voices, and underscores improvised musical performances at Merlin Works Improv, The Hideout, The Fallout, and ColdTowne Theatre. She most recently served as the festival music director for IMPRO Amsterdam 2025, had her original video game score performed live by the Density512 orchestra for SXSW 2025, and orchestrated the 2024 Coca-Cola holiday commercial, released in 15 countries. Her multi-media composition portfolio includes the scores for numerous short films, video games, apps, string quartets, a contemporary ballet, and a musical. She began studying piano and voice when she was 5 years old and went on to get her B.S. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and her graduate diploma from the Film Scoring Academy of Europe. Bhattacharjee is signed with Graphite Publishing, where her choral work is available for purchase.
The Long Bio
Ritika Bhattacharjee (B.S. in Chemical Engineering ‘22, minor in Performance Studies from Texas A&M University, Graduate Diploma in Film Scoring from the European Academy of Fine Arts) is a composer, conductor, pianist, and mezzo-soprano based out of Austin, TX. As a performing artist, she has most recently been invited to Amsterdam’s IMPRO 2025 as the Musical Director and American delegate on the international performing team. She has conducted the European Recording Orchestra in the Bulgarian National Radio Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria as they played her original compositions. She currently plays for Austin Community Ballet. Bhattacharjee sings with Da Capo as well as Inversion Ensemble in Austin, TX, and has been commissioned by KMFA Radio for SXSW, Panoramic Voices, and Performa/Dance Company.
While studying at Texas A&M, Bhattacharjee served as the past president and founder of Ingeniare, the all-engineering choir, and the past ensemble leader for Binomial Rhapsody, a band of engineering students who compose music from math equations and regularly perform arrangements and covers. She has worked as a voice-over assistant for the A&M College of Engineering's distance learning program, and as a teaching assistant for engineering courses. She was the lead jazz vocalist for The Aggieland Orchestra with the Corps of Cadets, a blogger for Ingenium (the TAMU Engineering Blog), a writer for the satire magazine The Mugdown, and the first student host of the official College of Engineering podcast, Soundbytes (on Spotify/Soundcloud).
In Spring 2020, she was inducted as a Fellow of the Maroon & White Leadership Society and was a winner of the 2020 Buck Weirus Spirit Award, awarded to 55 students university-wide from an applicant pool of over 72,000. She was also a research assistant with the Lithium-Ion Battery Combustion research group and first-authored two publications on thermodynamic catastrophic failure models. She also worked in technical sales for the industrial gas and specialty chemicals industry, as well as an R&D (research and development) engineer for a Fortune 50 food company.
Aside from her engineering research, her work on the intersection of math and music was published in Explorations Volume 11, and her literary short fiction work was published in the Spring 2022 and Spring 2023 editions of The Eckleberg Project.