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Origin
  
Role
  
Vocalist

Name
  
Vidyadhar Vyas


Years active
  
1965 - present

Occupation(s)
  
Classical Vocalist

Vidyadhar Vyas First Time on CD Ragas By Pt Vidyadhar Vyas Classical Vocal

Born
  
September 8, 1944 (age 80) (
1944-09-08
)

Genres
  
Awards
  
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani Music - Vocal

Similar People
  
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, C R Vyas, Arvind Parikh, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Shruti Sadolikar

Pt vidyadhar vyas vocal recital with dr rishitosh on tabla vinay mishra on harmonium


Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas (born 8 September 1944) is an Indian Hindustani vocalist, and a contemporary exponent of the Paluskar style of North Indian classical singing. He belongs to the Gwalior gharana and the lineage of Sangeet Maharshi Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar contributed to his background. He is considered a maestro with this creative thinking, artistic approach and aesthetic research in the gharana gayaki with his arduous riyaz.

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Early life and background

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Vidyadhar Vyas was born in Maharashtra to Gayanacharya Pandit Narayanrao Vyas, a disciple of Pandit Paluskar. He was training in the Hindustani music arts of khayal, tarana and bhajan gayaki by his renowned father.

He holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Mumbai and a Doctorate in Hindustani Classical Vocal Music from the Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal, Mumbai.

Career

Gifted with a voice that is mellow and musical, Pandit Vyas presents a unique and pleasing blend of beauty of form and content of khayal. He takes every care to sustain and develop the Raga rasa and tries to harmonize it with the bhava of the compositions.

Awarded Top Grade status by All India Radio, Pandit Vyas is an equally popular artiste in the television media and has several cassettes and CDs to his credit. A top-notch concert performer with creditable performances in almost all the major festivals in India, he has also performed in the USA, Europe, Mauritius and other parts of the world.

He has written several articles for leading music journals and has conceived and presented a variety of programmes on the genesis and evolution of Hindustani Raga Music. Pandit Vyas also excels in conducting lecture demonstrations, which are both enlightening and entertaining.

In addition to being a performing artist, Vidyadhar Vyas is known as a teacher. He has been teaching and mentoring students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 1964 and doctorate level since 1972. In 1973 he became Principal of the Government Music College (Rajasthan Sangeet Sansthan) at Jaipur. In 1984 he became Head of the Department of Music, University of Mumbai. In February 2004, he became the first duly selected Vice Chancellor of the newly formed Bhatkhande Music Institute Deemed University at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

In August 2007 he took over as Executive Director of ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata. Vyas was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2007.

Discography

  • Suneri Maine Nirbalke Balraam
  • References

    Vidyadhar Vyas Wikipedia


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