Satyasheel Deshpande
Satyasheel Deshpande
Vocalist
17 Renditions • 1 h 36 m
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GHARANA
Gwalior
GURU
Pt. Kumar Gandharva
DISCIPLE
B. Krishna Bhat
AWARDS
Homi Bhabha Fellowship1996
Kumar Gandharva Fellowship1999
Tansen award, Sursingar Samsad
Raza award for creativity2006
Vimla Devi Foundation award for social work
Vatsalabai Bhimsen Joshi award2013
Godavari Gaurav Puraskar, Kusumagraj Pratishthan2018
Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande is a Hindustani musician, composer, researcher and author. Born in Bombay in 1951, he grew up in a house frequented by the great masters of the time, who came to confer with his father, the musicologist Pt. Vamanrao Deshpande. He was thus surrounded by Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Smt. Mogubai Kurdikar, Pt. Vasantrao Deshpande and, most importantly, Pt. Kumar Gandharva, who later became his chief guru and mentor. From the beginning he had the capacity to reproduce the music of the great masters. In 1972 he decided to devote himself fully to the study of music under Kumarji, living with him for many years in Devas in the spirit of a disciple. After he presented a demonstration of a raga as approached by different gharanas to a programme officer of the Ford Foundation, USA, the foundation gave him a grant in 1987 under its 'Education and Culture' programme to pursue this work. His honours include the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (1996), the Kumar Gandharva Fellowship (1999), Sursingar Samsad's Tansen award, the Raza award for creativity (2006), the Vimla Devi Foundation award for social work for his work with the Samvaad Foundation, the Vatsalabai Bhimsen Joshi award (2013) and Kusumagraj Pratishthan's Godavari Gaurav Puraskar (2018). A devoted teacher of Hindustani music, he was honoured with the post of Bhimsen Joshi Chair Professor at the University of Pune.