Satish Bhakta holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Oklahoma City University. There, he taught a variety of classes ranging from critical listening for composition majors to computer notation for college professors.

A native of Zimbabwe, Satish came to the United States in 1990, and has spent the past sixteen years cultivating relationships with accomplished composers and arrangers. His engraving for them can be found in chamber and orchestral publications by Theodore Presser and Oxford University Press.