Amita Dalal started learning the sitar from the age of eighteen from her guru, Smt. Manju Mehta, a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar.

A gift sitarist, Amita toured Japan in 1978, under a student exchange programme and performed in the Osaka & the Syongunyama festival. In 1980, upon winning a prestigious music competition she was selected by the state government to represent India for performing in the cultural events in the Olympic games in Moscow where 84 countries from all over the world had participated.

Amita performs regularly on the All India radio under the B-high graded artist category and was also the winner of the state cultural awards 'The Navdeep Pratishthan' awards in 1994. She is attached to the Saptak School of music and has performed in 1994, 1996, and 1997 in the annual Saptak music festival. She has also performed in other cities of India such as New Delhi, Bangalore, Bombay, Baroda etc.