User:Deepudio/Sample page

￼Nishad born on 29th November in Maharashtra, India. Inherited music from his parents and grandfather late Pt Madhukar Panchikar. His father Sadashiv Bakre, is disciple of late Pt Dinkar Kaikini. Nishad learned classical music from his father from the age of 6. Then he took training under the Guru-shishya parampara system, from Dr Ram Deshpande for 13 years. Following which he took training from late Pt Dinkar Kaikini for 5 years. After the sad demise of Pt Kaikini, Nishad took training from Pt. Madhukar Joshi, Dr Arun Dravid and Pt Ulhas Kashalkar. In this process he learned the Gwalior, Agra and Jaipur styles of Khyal gaiki.

For more than 20 years of work in the field of Hindustani classical music, Nishad has been recognised as a musician with purity and in-depth approach. His gayki has evolved combination of influences of Pt Ulhas Kashalkar and Pt Dinkar Kaikini. He has been recepient of awards like the "Yuva puraskar" from the Kanebua pratishthan, the K G Ginde award and Annasaheb Ratanjankar scholarship, the Kesarbai Kerkar scholarship of the National Centre of Performing Arts-Mumbai, the Gyana-Pravah scholarship-Kolkata, scholarship to young artistes by the central government of India. He has performed in different parts of India like Mumbai, Pune, Nasik, Delhi, Dharwad-Hubli, Surat, Benaras, Goa including festivals like the Delhi Classical music festival, the Akaashwani Sangeet Sammelan- Guwahati, the Lonavala-Khandala festival-Pune and "Pratah-Swar" by Pancham Nishad Creatives. He has also performed at the "Singapore art circle"-Singapore.

His aquaintance with composer and Harmonium player Anant Joshi, helped him to explore the bhajans and abhang genre, in which he has sung new compositions under the album "Sagun-Nirgun".

Nishad Bakre is also the founder of the "Suranjan trust", an NGO dedicated to the propagation of Classical music which has been functioning since 2017 and has come up with various innovative themes like "Ghaarana series", "Passion"- a worldwide online competion, "Din Din Anand"-a thematic programme based on classical music.