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, M.F.A. in Music Interdisciplinary Studies from Berklee College of Music) 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 festival's Musical Director and American delegate on the international performing team. She was invited as a teaching artist for "The Big Sing" festival in Barcelona in Summer 2025. She has conducted the European Recording Orchestra in the Bulgarian National Radio Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria as they played her original compositions. Recently, she conducted players from The Royal Northern College for a masterclass in Manchester, studying conducting with Eduardo Portal. She accompanies classes on piano for Austin Community Ballet. Bhattacharjee sings with Austin Cantorum, Inversion, Da Capo Ensemble, and Panoramic Voices, and has been commissioned by Panoramic Voices, See Change Treble Chorus (Minneapolis), KMFA Radio for SXSW, and Performa/Dance Company. Her multi-media composition portfolio includes the scores for short films, video games, apps, string quartets, choral works, a contemporary ballet, and a musical. 

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). 

While studying engineering, she served as a research assistant with the NASA-affiliated Lithium-Ion Battery Combustion research group and first-authored a publication on thermodynamic catastrophic failure models. She previously worked as an R&D food engineer for PepsiCo Frito-Lay and in technical sales for the industrial gas and specialty chemicals industry.

Outside of her work, she enjoys inline skating, hot air balloon rides, playing tabla, electric bass, and bari sax, and spending time with her two kittens.