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Ashish Keskar
Ashish Keskar (Born on 27th June 1970) is a Music Director in Marathi Music Industry & Marathi Film Industry and also owner Orion Studios, based in Pune.

Education
Ashish Keskar, born in a musical family in Pune, Maharashtra, India started training of Sitar at the age of 5 with his guru, his father, a Sitar player & a Music Composer Pt. Shreenivas Keskar. Sitar is the traditional instrument that has been played in his family. His father Pt. Shreenivas Keskar, eldest uncle Shri Yashwant Keskar, Grandfather Shri Amrutrao Keskar, Great Grandfather Shri Vishnupant Keskar are the antecedents in the family playing Sitar. His eldest brother Atul Keskar is carrying the tradition of playing Sitar in the family. Ashish Keskar started learning harmonium at the age of 7 from his mother Mrs. Vasumati Keskar. At the age of 10 he had basic Vocal training from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyala in Hindustani Classical Music. Since then he started having musical lessons from his father Pt. Shreenivas Keskar. He also started assisting his father in music composing during his college days. At the age of 25 he became the auditioned Music Composer of All India Radio.

Ashish Keskar completed his graduation in Commerce from Garware College of Commerce, Pune & was pursuing his education in academics in the field of Law & Cost Accountancy. But the tradition in the family finally captured his mind & he decided to make a career in the field of Music. He also learned Guitar under the guidance of his eldest brother Atul Keskar.

Career
During College days Ashish started accompanying many live concerts of various artists with Guitar & Harmonium. He traveled many parts of Maharashtra for accompanying Hindustani Classical Vocalists with Harmonium & Light Music Vocalists with Guitar.

In 1992, he started playing with Keyboard and also stared accompanying with Keyboards. Till 1995 he persuaded his career as accompanist artist with Harmonium, Keyboard & Guitar. From 1995 he started assisting his father Pt. Shreenivas Keskar by working as ]]Music Arranger]] in various projects. He assisted his father by arranging music for a live program Me Ashrant Pravasi. Ashish also assisted him in music albums such as Swami Geet Gunjan, Chaitanyache Kshetrasthan & many more.

While working with his brother & father, Ashish could see the need of having own recording setup for facilitating the ease of work. During that time it was linear digital audio recording system that was available. But Ashish was aiming at non-linear digital audio setup to start his journey as a studio owner. In September-October 1996 Ashish setup Pune's first ever PC based non-linear digital audio recording setup named Orion Studios.

On 12 January 1997, Orion Studios started its operation on a very promising note, when Pune was striving for more & more requirements in digital music & also IVRS jobs. Under the able leadership of Ashish Keskar and under the guidance of his father Pt. Shreenivas Keskar & a firm backing from his elder brother Abhay Keskar, Orion Studios started working for Marathi Film Industry by making Music arrangements for many feature films such as Pathrakhin, Sansarchakra, Paach Shaktiman & many more.

In 2002 Ashish started registered authorized agency of All India Radio.