Venue: Sarasbaug Ganesh Mandir, Pune
Date and time: 7:30 PM to 9:PM, 18 Jan 2010
About the artist:
A great vocalist, Smt. Jayashree Patanekar combines a variety of elements from the Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra traditions and presents them in a unique and aesthetically pleasing manner.
She began her training at the age of eight or nine with Vithal Pai of Sawantwadi and then continued it with Mr. K.D.Jaokar for about 5 years. Later she received training with Ratnakar Pai and Nivrutibua Sarnaik. In 1964, she received the first prize in vocal music in a nation wide competition held by All India Radio.
Pt. Gajananbua Joshi, the violin maestro and eminent vocalist of the Gwalior Ghrana listened to her singing and agreed to teach her. Without asking her to chnage her voice culture, he trained her for seven or eight years concentrating on every aspect of singing-use of voice-culture, increasing the power of breath, clarity in Taans, puroity of notes control of rhythm, exposition of the Raag structure in a planned and beautiful manner and so on. Through him, she picked up the nuances of styles of Bhurji Khan, Vilayat Hussein Khan, Vazebua etc. Her gayaki combines elements of gwalior, jaipur as well as some of the Kirana elements also due to her training from the gurus of that gharana.
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