Montino Bourbon is a brilliant musician, disciple of the renowned Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, with whom he studied for twelve years. Maestro Bourbon has directed the Academy of Universal Music in Montecito for many years, and teaches the music of India as well as African and World music. He has concertized in Europe, India, and the United States and has been the featured musician in the World Music Festival at California Institute of the Arts, the Estate Musicale Festival in Rome, and the Gandharva festival in Bombay, all to outsdanding accolades.The Rome Messaggero called his performance at the Teatro Stella Complex "superb." The Santa Barbara News-Press hailed him as a ‘Brilliant Virtuoso’