"I am very grateful and happy to have Pandit Ashok Pathak as my Guruji" says Bert Cornelis. Bert Cornelis is gandabandh shishya of Pandit Ashok Pathak. He is a Sitar player. Bert Cornelis is fortunate to perform with his guru many times. He is performing in program 'Al Palna'. It is a musical fusion program of Sitar and singer Ghalia Benali. He also does Jugalbandi program i.e. 'Sitar and Pakhawaj Jugalbandi with Pandit Udhav Apegaonkar Shinde (pakhawaj), who is the son of the legendary Padmashree Bapu Apegaonkar. Bert Cornelis presents 'Sadhana' program. Sadhana is a new project in progress. Under the working title ‘the Alchemy of the Heart’, Bert invited artists with whom he had separately great artistic and personal contacts to create something new together: Anne-Cecile Chane-Tune: dance, Simon Lenski: cello, electronics, Anwar Abudragh: vocals, djose, oud, Dadmehr: tombak, daf, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee: tabla, Alain Collet: lights.