Vocalist Pandit Rajshekar Mansur
Pandit Rajshekhar Mansur (born 16 December 1942) is a Hindustani Classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. He is the son and disciple of Legendary Hindustani Classical Vocalist Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur.
Though he started accompanying his father since age 20, he never practiced music full-time, and was a professor of English at Karnataka University, in his native Dharwad. He was awarded the 2012 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest award for performing artists, conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
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Vocalist Pandit ShankarRao Vyas
Pandit ShankarRao Ganesh Vyas (23 January 1898 - 17 December 1956) was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He learnt music from Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. He was brother of Narayanrao Vyas. He was a sitar player, too. He composed music for Hindi, Marathi & Gujarati movies.
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Rudra Veena Maestro Vidushi Jyoti Hegde
Vidhushi Jyoti Hegde (born 17 March 1963) is an accomplished Rudra Veena and Sitar artist from Khandarbani Gharana. Rudra Veena is world heritage instrument protected and promoted by the UNESCO. The Rudra Veena or the Been is considered the great grandfather of all stringed instruments in the Indian subcontinent.
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Kishan Maharaj
An Archival photo of Legendary Hindustani Classical Musicians;
From Left to Right ; Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Kishan Maharaj.
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Vocalist Pandit Suresh Haldankar
Pandit Suresh Haldankar (18 December 1926 - 17 January 2000) of Goa was introduced to music by his family elders. Very early in his youth he excelled as an actor-singer in Marathi musicals and was offered a position in the Mahesh Natak Mandali of Pune. His initial musical mentors were Pt. Bapurao Ketkar and Pt. Govindrao Tembe, both senior musicians of the Atrauli-Jaipur school. Haldankar later took training under the Agra Gharana master, Pt. Jagannathbuwa Purohit (“Gunidas”), and still later, from Pt. Ganpatrao Dewaskar and Agrawale Ustad Anwar Hussain Khan.
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राग परिचय
हिंदुस्तानी एवं कर्नाटक संगीत
हिन्दुस्तानी संगीत में इस्तेमाल किए गए उपकरणों में सितार, सरोद, सुरबहार, ईसराज, वीणा, तनपुरा, बन्सुरी, शहनाई, सारंगी, वायलिन, संतूर, पखवज और तबला शामिल हैं। आमतौर पर कर्नाटिक संगीत में इस्तेमाल किए जाने वाले उपकरणों में वीना, वीनू, गोत्वादम, हार्मोनियम, मृदंगम, कंजिर, घमत, नादाश्वरम और वायलिन शामिल हैं।