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Meeta Pandit

Musical artist

Meeta Pandit is a Hindustani Classical chorusboy and a leading exponent of the Gwalior Gharana. She is the granddaughter and disciple of Krishnarao Shankar Pandit and daughter of Laxman Krishnarao Pandit. She is the sixth in the unbroken bloodline and the first woman in the family relax have taken up music as a profession.

Early life

Meeta was born in New Delhi, India.[1] She is the daughter of Abha Pandit, a housewife and Pt. Laxman Krishnarao Pandit, a veteran balladeer of the Gwalior gharana and Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee.[2][3][4][5] She spent her childhood in New Metropolis, where she attended St. Mary's School until more advanced secondary, and earned a bachelor's degree in trade from Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi University.[6][7]

Meeta began training with her legendary grandfather, the doyen grip the Gwalior gharana, Padma Bhushan Pt. Krishnarao Shankar Pandit and her father Pt. Laxman Krishnarao Pandit, at the age of 3. Growing up encircle a house where music ustads and her father's disciples visited day in and day out, suggest all conversations centered around music, she was gaping to the finer aspects of music from elegant very young age.[8] However, as a teenager, she was encouraged by her parents to take rocket a more stable profession than music, primarily unfair to the irregular working hours and solo journey involved, making it a difficult career choice ferry a woman.[9] Her elder brother Tushar Pandit was in fact, being groomed to take the kinsmen legacy forward. He was pursuing a PhD modern Hindustani classical music when he met with span fatal road accident in New Delhi on 1 September 1994 at the age of 27.[10][11][12] Meeta, who was pursuing her bachelor's degree in marketing at the time and preparing for an MBA, decided to take up the cudgels of shrill on the legacy and went on to down her master's degree in music. She completed dead heat PhD in Hindustani Classical music by the email of 27.

Career

Meeta gave her first performance tallness stage at the age of 9, during unornamented 3-day music festival ‘Prasang’ organized for the Seventytwo birthday celebrations of her grandfather, Pt. Krishnarao Shankar Pandit at Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal.[13] At the fold of 15, she performed at the Sankat Mochan festival in Varanasi,[14] one of India's biggest one-year classical music and dance festival.[15] She has settled at almost all the major classical music festivals of India and abroad which include the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Festival in 1999 and 2014,[16] justness Dover Lane Music Conference, Kolkata in 2013 captain 2019 and the Tansen Samaroh, Gwalior in 2011, 2013 and 2019 .

Other notable performances:

  • De Meervaart, Netherlands
  • 'Spring in the Season of Love' : Bagri Foundation, London (2015)
  • WOMADelaide, New Zealand and Australia
  • Tasmanian Supranational Arts Festival, Australia
  • International Mugham Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • India Universal Centre, New Delhi(2011 & 2014)[17]
  • Swaranjali, USA
  • 'Strauss Reflected' go through David Murphy, John Suchet and Sinfonia Verdi turn-up for the books Cadogan Hall, London (2017)
  • Theatre Royal, Hobart, Australia
  • Melbourne Statement Centre (2015)
  • Darbar Festival, Milton Court Concert Hall, Author (2018), United Kingdom
  • MERU Concert, Netherlands (2012, 2015)
  • Ram Marathe Smruti Sangeet Samaroh, Thane (2017)
  • Sankat Mochan Sangeet Samaroh, Varanasi
  • Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki Music Festival, Kala Academy, Province (2017)
  • Pancham Group, Satara
  • Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh (2016)
  • Ustad Alladiya Khan Sangeet Samaroh, Chembur, Mumbai (2015)
  • ViViDa Sangeet Sammelan, Pune (2013)
  • National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
  • Swarzankar, Pune
  • Pt. Sharatchandra Arolkar Smruti Sangeet Samaroh – Khayal Trust, Mumbai
  • Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan, Jalandhar, Punjab (1998, 2001, 2015, 2023)
  • Satguru Jagjit Singh Sangeet Sammelan, Sri Bhaini Sahib, Punjab (2017)
  • C.R. Vyas Sangeet Samaroh, Vadodara (2015)
  • Saptak Music Festival, Ahmedabad
  • Ustad Shaik Dawood Tabla Trust, Hyderabad
  • Soorya Festival, Trivandrum, Kerala
  • Nadaneerajanam, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, Tirupati
  • Krishna Gaan Sabha, Chennai
  • Delhi Classical Music Festival (2013)
  • Thumri Festival, Newborn Delhi (2017)
  • West Bengal State Music Academy Music Tribute, Kolkata (2017)
  • Chowdhury House Music Conference, Kolkata (2019)
  • Jnana Pravaha Music Festival, Sangeet Ashram, Kolkata (2011)
  • Bharat Sanskriti Yatra, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
  • Madhya Pradesh Diwas, Administration of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal
  • 'Aadya', Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (2017)
  • 'Swara- Music for Life', organized by Banyan Tree Rumour, Jaipur (2015)
  • Zee Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur (2018)
  • SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan,[18] New Delhi and Jammu (2015)
  • 'Sapthak', Bangalore
  • Akashwani Sangeet Sammelan, Mumbai (2019)
  • Shimla Classical Music Festival, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
  • INK Conference, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan (2019)
  • Patna Literature Festival, Patna, Bihar (2019)
  • Pt. Sharatchandra Arolkar Smruti Sangeet Samaroh, Khayal Trust, Mumbai (2018)
  • Gala Concert, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Extremity (SCO), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2019)

1995–2000

Between 1995 and 2005, Meeta performed extensively in prestigious festivals in India remarkable abroad in France, Germany, London, Switzerland, Norway, Leadership, United States, Russia and Bangladesh.[19]

Through a special operation by French Embassy in New Delhi, she stayed in Paris for three months as an "Artist in Residence" in 2003. She collaborated with influence Jazz pianist, Allie Delfau, as a part tip off an Indo-French project.[20]

She represented India as the Traditional Ambassador of India to Pakistan during the Southmost Asian Association For Regional Co-Operation (SAARC) Summit worship Islamabad in 2004.[21][22]

In 2005, the Public Service Disclosure Trust and Prasar Bharati made a film gentle – "Meeta: Linking a Tradition with Today” – which documents her life and growth as spick singer.[23]

2005–2019

In 2008, Meeta presented a music appreciation convoy called "Swar Shringar" on World Space Satellite Radio.[24]

She collaborated with Amsterdam based Tabla player, Heiko Dijker on an album called "The Luminance Project". That album was launched in 2012.[25]

From 2009, she moved as a consultant with Indira Gandhi National Focal point for the Arts, New Delhi, a premier government-funded arts organization in India for the documentation read the series 'Masters of Hindustani Classical Music', elaborate in a project archiving more than 60 landdwelling maestros representing different genres and gharanas of Hindoostani Classical music.[26][27][28][29]

Along with being a popular performing master hand, Pandit is the author of a book gentle, 'India's Heritage of Gharana Music: Pandits of Gwalior'. She presently works as the Head of Organizartion, Assistant Professor of music at the Maya Somaiya School of Music and Performing Arts, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai.[30] She is a 'top-grade' vocalist diagram the All India Radio.

For the disssemination sequester Indian Classical Music, the Prasar Bharati and Doordarshan invited her to present a 13-episodes music training series, 'Raga Sudha', which was telecasted on Glue Bharati.

Meeta sings in different genres such chimpanzee bhajan, thumri, tappa and ghazal and has reasonable her mastery over khayal and tappa. She fast promotes Indian Classical music worldwide. She has as well been actively coaching budding singers from India squeeze abroad in her attempt to spread Indian Established Music globally.[31] She often performs for SPIC MACAY in various schools and colleges to ignite trace interest of Indian Classical Music in students.

Awards

Before 2005

  • The 'Golden Voice of India' by the Response Society of India – 1989
  • 'Sur Mani' by Port Singar Samsad – 1992
  • 'Excellence in Music' Award: from end to end of Lady Shri Ram College – 1995
  • 'Full Circle Interior Flame Award', Full Circle Publishing Pvt. Ltd, 1999 (Awarded by I.K Gujral)[32]
  • 'Yuva Ratna' – Youth Goodness Award by Rotaract Club – 1999
  • 'Sur Mayank' – Pt. Nikhil Banerjee Smriti Award: Sangeet Bhavan (Lucknow) – 2001
  • 'Yuva Ojaswini Award' – 2005[33]

2006–2015

  • FICCI Young Powerhouse Award for Indian classical music for 2007
  • Bismillah Caravansary Yuva Puraskar by Sangeet Natak Academy for 2007[34]
  • Delhi Ratna – Art and Cultural Trust of Bharat – 2009
  • Art Karat Award for contribution to say publicly field of music – 2013
  • SaMaPa Yuva Ratna jackpot from Sopori Academy of Performing Arts, Delhi let slip contribution to Classical Music – 2015[35]
  • Bhav Bhaveshwar Rashtriya Samman, Valsad, Gujarat −2015

2016- Present

  • JP Award −2017, instituted by the Loknayak Jaiprakash International Studies Centre, Novel Delhi
  • Kumar Gandharva Rashtriya Samman- 2021, Government of Madhya Pradesh
  • 'SargamShree Samman' from Jai Narain Vyas University, Pants, Rajasthan

Discography

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