Milind Sheorey
Milind Sheorey
Flute
27 Renditions • 9 h 25 m
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PLAYS
Flute
GHARANA
Maihar
GURUS
Pt. P. J. Bagadadev
Vid. Annapurna Devi
AWARD
National Scholarship for classical music1993-95
Shri Milind Sheorey is a Hindustani classical bansuri player. His style is highly fluid and vocalised, with sweeping glissando slides (meend) in the aalaap and complex tonguing techniques in the jhor and jhala. To widen the range of ragas playable on the bansuri, he made two modifications to the instrument: a thumb hole that allows a seamless meend between 'ma' and 'pa', and a key on the seventh hole that extends its range beyond the usual two and a half octaves. Born to Shri Trimbak Sheorey and Smt. Sheela Sheorey in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, he spent his early childhood in the hinterlands of the state and was playing the flute, untrained, by the age of 10. At 17 he began learning Hindustani classical music with the late Pt. P. J. Bagadadev, a disciple of the flautist the late Pt. Vijaya Raghav Rao. He moved to Mumbai in 1987 and two years later became a student of Vid. Annapurna Devi, doyenne of the Maihar gharana and daughter of Baba Allauddin Khan, who over eight years taught him dhrupad, khayal and thumari angs on the bansuri. He held the National Scholarship for classical music in 1993-95. His concerts feature ragas rarely played on the bansuri, such as Gaud Malhar, Shree and Kedar. He gave his first concert at Jabalpur in 1988; notable performances include "Aarambh" at Bhopal in 1991, the "Acharya Allaudin Khan Music Circle" programme in Mumbai in 1993 and a 2004 Norway tour with Trilok Gurtu.