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{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Pandit Ulhas N. Kashalkar
|image = Ulhas 2011.jpg
|caption =Ulhas Kashalkar at Darbar Festival 2011
|image_size =
|background = solo_singer
|birth_name =
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|1|14}}
|death_date =
|origin = [[Nagpur]], India
|genre = [[Hindustani classical music]], [[Jaipur Gharana]]
|occupation = Classical Vocalist
|years_active = 1965 – present
|label =
|website = *[http://www.ulhaskashalkar.com/ Ulhas Kashalkar Official Website]
}}
'''Pandit Ulhas N Kashalkar''' (born 14 January 1955) is a [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani classical]] vocalist. He has previously received training in the [[Gwalior gharana|Gwalior]], [[Jaipur-Atrauli gharana|Jaipur]] and [[Agra gharana|Agra]] [[gharana]]s, and is considered a representative of all three schools.<ref name = SRA>
{{cite web
| title = Artist of the Month: Ulhas Kashalkar
| publisher = ITC Sangeet Research Academy
| url = http://www.itcsra.org/aom/artist_ofthe_month.asp?aomid=23
| access-date = 7 June 2008}}
</ref>

==Early life==
Ulhas was born in [[Nagpur]]. He received his first lessons in music from his father N D Kashalkar, a lawyer by profession and an amateur vocalist and musicologist.<ref name = EternallyArt>
{{cite web
| title = Ulhas Kashalkar
| publisher = Eternally Art
| url = http://amykumar.com/ullaskashalkar_bio.html
| access-date = 7 June 2008}}
</ref> He went on to study music at [[University of Nagpur|Nagpur University]], topping his post-graduate class. Around that time, he trained under Rajabhau Kogje and P N Khardenavis.

Indian music is heavily influenced by the [[Guru-shishya tradition]]. Kashalkar studied principally under [[Ram Marathe]] and [[Gajananrao Joshi]].<ref name = EternallyArt/>

==Career==
Ulhas Kashalkar initially worked as a programme executive at the [[Mumbai]] station of [[All India Radio]]. In 1993 he became a teacher at the [[ITC Sangeet Research Academy]], where he remains today.<ref Name = SRA/>

Both Rambhau and Gajananrao were traditionalists which finds reflection in Kashalkar's vocalism. He possesses the ability to switch between three styles (namely Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra), at times even in the course of a single performance.<ref>
{{cite news
| last = Sarvamangala
| first = C S
| title = The Many Moods of Khayal
| work = The Hindu
| date = 24 February 2003
| url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/02/24/stories/2003022401270100.htm}}
</ref> He adheres to the aesthetic contours of each individual style, and also to the formal demands of the [[raga]] being presented. He is noted for his authentic presentations of obscure traditional ragas.<ref>
{{cite news
| last = Gupta
| first = Nilaksha
| title = Curious Mix in a Raga
| publisher = The Telegraph
| date = 9 January 2004
| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040109/asp/atleisure/story_2767314.asp}}
</ref> In an uncharacteristically expansive passage, the veteran music critic Prakash Wadhera once noted:

''Ulhas is a fabulous vocalist, still in his middle years and young, who has an old musical head stuffed with innumerable current and rare ragas and compositions. Like a computer he never errs in any raga or composition howsoever intertwined or tricky it may be. He, just seems to press one key and out comes a raga in the true Jaipur colours, another to obtain a melody attired in the Agra style and still another to get a raga in the Gwalior habiliments. One can only imagine Kashalkar's questionless loyalty to his various gurus, and his own prodigious capacity to assimilate and consolidate the incoming knowledge.''<ref>
{{cite news
| last = Wadhera
| first = Prakash
| title = A Rendezvous with Pure Melody
| work = The Hindu
| date = 12 May 2000
| url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/05/12/stories/0912070a.htm}}
</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]], 2008 awarded in 2009
* [[Padma Shri]] in 2010<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>
*[[Tansen Samman]] in 2017<ref name="Tansen Awards">{{cite web | url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2017/state-editions/tansen-award-to-pt-kashalkar.html | title=Tansen Award to Pt Kashalkar | date=2017 | access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref>
*[[Pt. Omkarnath Thakur Award]] in 2019<ref> [https://sangeetnatak.gujarat.gov.in/index.htm]</ref>

===See also===
* [[Vikas Kashalkar]]
* [[Arun Kashalkar]]

==Footnotes==
<references />

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}
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