Music Style Indian Classical, Hindustani

Musical Influences Jaipur Gharana

Artist History Dr. Kamal Purandare is a Hindustani vocalist of the Jaipur Atrauli Gharana, and has been teaching Hindustani Vocal Music for the past 35 years to an entire generation of students in the Hubli-Dharwad area of Karnataka, and has retired recently as the Principal, and Head of the Department of Music, SJMVS Women's College Hubli, Karnataka. She has performed on the stage from an early age, and her first commercial recording was with HMV at the age of 9. She has released a commercial cassette, "Nijaguna Gana Chandra", and has provided music direction for Sangeeta cassettes, as well as Kannada songs for HMV. She has performed in concerts conducted by AIR Dharwad and the Karnataka Sangeet & Nritya Academy, as well as private concerts all over India. She has performed regularly on AIR Dharwad, for over 40 years, Hindustani Classical, and light music. She is a member of the Karnataka Sangeeta & Nritya Academy. She is concurrently serving as member of an Expert Committee (Hindustani Music) in the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi. She is on the program advisory board of AIR Dharwad, as well as the Audition & Selection Committees. She is a member of the board of studies in music in Hampi and Gulbarga Universities in Karnataka, India. She has written and co-authored with her husband Rajeev Purandare several books on music: Sangeeta Kala Kusum, Raga Vibhoda, Raga Darshan, Bharatiya Sangeeta Vadyagalu, published by Karnataka University Press. Dr. Purandare holds a PhD in Music, from Karnatak University Dharwad, in addition to M.A (Music), M.A (Kannada) and is currently guiding several doctoral students at Karnatak University. She studied music under several early tutors, briefly with Nivritti Buwa Sarnaik, and finally with her husband Rajeev Purandare, himself a student of Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur.

Instruments Vocal

Location Hubli-Dharwad, Karnataka - India

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