PT. VIBHAV NAGESHKAR
Background
Pt. Vibhav Nageshkar was born in 1955 in Mumbai. He started
learning Tabla at a tender age of five from his father Pandit Pandharinath
Nageshkar, who belongs to the tradition Delhi, Ajrada, Lucknow, Farrukhabad
(Laliana Gharana), of the great maestro, Ustad Amir Hussain Khan.
Since 1987, he is the tabla Professor in the University of
Mumbai.
He recently got a tremendous appreciation and a standing ovation
for his amazing performance at Ustad Allarakhan Khan Saheb’s Barsi – “Homage to
Abbaji”.
Accompaniments:
Apart from his solo performances, he is also in constant demand
for accompaniment with instruments like Sitar, Sarod, Flute and Violin and also
with renowned Kathak dancers. He has so far accompanied a number of renowned
artists like Pandita Zarin Daruwala (Sharma), Pt. D K Datar, Pt. Vijay Raghav
Rao, Pt Dinkar Kaikini, Ustad Khadim Husein Khan, Ustad Latafat Hussein Khan,
Ustad Hafiz Ahmad Khan, Ustad Niyaz /Faiyaz Ahmad Khan, Ustad Sarfraz Hussein
Khan, Ustad Gulam Mustafa Khan, Smt. Rohini Bhate, Smt. Sunayana Hazarilal,
Ustad Shahid Parvez, Pt.Buddhaditya Mukherjee, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Pt.
Jasraj, Pt. Ram Marathe, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Budhadev Das Gupta,
Ustad Bahadur Khan, Ustad Rashid Khan, Ustad Imrat Khan, Ustad Rais Khan, Ustad
Irshad Khan, Ustad Nishad Khan, Smt. Jaya Biswas, Smt. Shobha Gurtu, Pt.
Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Arvind Parikh, Pt. Kartik Kumar, Pt. Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad
Dnyanesh Khan, Ustad Shamim Ahmed Khan, Pt Vinayak Vora, Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt,
Pt. V.G. Jog, Kartik Sheshadri, Smt. N.Rajam.
He has also accompanied many renowned artists on Doordarshan National Programmes to
name a few are Smt.Zarin Sharma, Pt.Ram Narayan, Pt.D.K. Datar, Smt.Sunayna
Hazarilal, Pt.Prakash Sangeet.
He has accompanied Pt D.k. Datar, Bimal Mukherjee, Shri. Madhav
Gudi, Pt. K.G. Ginde in Radio Sangeet
Samellan.
He has toured a number of countries in the course of his solo performances
and accompaniments at United States of
America, Latin America, Italy, Czekoslovakia, Switzerland, Paris,
Belgium,Hong-Kong, Syria, Qatar,Doha and Bahrain.
He is figured in the audiocassettes
released by HMV, LPs and CDs, along with Smt. Zarin Sharma (Sarod), Smt
Shubhada Paradkar (Vocal), Ustad Sultan Khan (Sarangi), Pandit Vishwamohan
Bhatt (Mohan Veena), Pandit Buddhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar), Pt. Ulhas Bapat
(Santoor).
He is regularly invited for Judging
Tabla Competitions in Institutes Like Akashvani Tabla Auditions Or
Competions, CCRT (Delhi),Sharda Sangeet Vidhyalaya(Mumbai), Swar Sadhana
Sameeti, Railway Music Competitions, Dadar Matunga Cultural Center.
He has conducted Workshops
on Tabla & Tabla Solo Performance
for Goa College of Music, Goa College of Art & Culture & Kolhapur
University.
Students:
He is not only a great artiste but also
a great guru, who has a large number of Gandabandhit disciples in Mumbai,
Pune to name a few are Shriniwas
Renavikar, Vishwanath Shirodkar, Samay Cholkar, Girish Sabnis, Dnyanesh
Kulkarni, Lalit Paradkar, Swapnil Pandit, Keshav Joshi, Mayuresh Ketkar,Arvind
Sukhtankar, to name a few. His daughter Dhanashree Nageshkar Wagh is now
carrying the tradition forward & performing at a professional level. These and many more students have also
figured in various musical events in India & abroad.