Ulhas Kashalkar
Ulhas Kashalkar
Vocalist
17 Renditions • 7 h 41 m
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GHARANA
Gwalior
GURUS
Shri Nagesh Dattatreya Kashalkar
Pt. Rajabhau Kogje
Prof. Prabhakar Rao Khardenavis
Pt. Ram Marathe
Pt. Gajanan Rao Joshi
DISCIPLES
Samarth Nagarkar
Dr. Ram Deshpande
Ruchira Kedar
Nirbhay Saxena
Alick Sengupta
Nishad Bakre
Ranjani Ramachandran
Anagha Bhat
Apoorva Gokhale
Manjusha Patil Kulkarni
Sai Eishwary Mahashabde
Adrija Basu
AWARDS
Padma Shri
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Pt. Omkarnath Thakur Award, Gujarat Sangeet Natak Academy
Rashtriya Tansen Puraskar
Swar-Ratna
Raag Rishi
Gaan Tapasvi
Ulhas Kashalkar is a Hindustani classical vocalist trained in the Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra gharanas. Born into a musical family in Maharashtra, he was initiated into music by his father, Shri Nagesh Dattatreya Kashalkar, an advocate and musicologist. He is a gold medallist in his postgraduate studies from Nagpur University, where he learnt from Pt. Rajabhau Kogje and Prof. Prabhakar Rao Khardenavis, and received rigorous talim from Pt. Ram Marathe and Pt. Gajanan Rao Joshi. Often called a musician's musician, he remains rooted in tradition while offering listeners a fresh gayaki. He has been a Senior Guru at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, since 1992, a Guru at Bengal Parampara Sangeetalay in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since 2014, and also trains students at MIT Gurukul, Pune. His honours include the Padma Shri, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Pt. Omkarnath Thakur Award of the Gujarat Sangeet Natak Academy and the Rashtriya Tansen Puraskar from the Madhya Pradesh Government. He has also received the titles Swar-Ratna, Raag Rishi and Gaan Tapasvi from Jagat Guru Shankaracharya. He is based in Pune with his wife, Sanjeevani Kashalkar, and son, Sameehan Kashalkar.