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Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi leads the renaissance of Indian classical music with utmost passion and dedication. Born on 4th February 1922 in the small town of Gadag, Karnataka, he is renowned for his unmatchable brilliance and charismatic personality. A burning passion for music has made him a living legend. It is this passion for music that urged him to run away from home and pursue musical studies after he heard the recordings of Abdul Karim Khan at a local store. After he returned home, he started his tutelage under the Sawai Gandharva (Pandit Rambhan Kundgolkar), who was himself a pupil of Abdul Karim Khan for 10 to 12 years. This rigorous training chiseled his already tuneful voice and his constant quest for ever domains enabled him to develop his own distinctive style laced with brilliance.

He excels in gamakar, meend, taankriya and at adapting interesting characteristics from other Gharanas. His rapid tans gliding through all the saptaks sends the listeners in raptures. He has been honoured by the Padamshree, Sangeet Natak Academy Award and the Padma Bhushan. Mastery over the soul of swar and raga makes him one of the most popular and dedicated artistes in the realm of Hindustani Shastriya Sangeet.

One of the most popular contemporary khayal singers, Pt. Jasraj belongs to the Mewati gharana. His sonorous voice effortlessly traveses over all three and half octaves, Pandit Jasraj¬s vocal are characterised by a blend of austere and opulent elements, projecting traditional music and an intense spiritual expression at once chaste and densly coloured .He has perfect diction, clarity of sur and command over all aspects of laya are other highlights of his music. He pays great attention to the choice of the composition and the words in it. This sensitivity together with his pure classical approach have given his music a lyrical quality which is the quintessence of the Mewati style of singing.His biggest contribution to Indian music is the simple rendition of raga while maintaing its grammar. He is also credited for creating an unique and novel jugalbandi based on the ancient system of moorchanas, between male and female vocalists, each singing their respective scales and different ragas at the same time. He has also devoted a lot of time and energy in encouraging and promting new talent. Born into a family which has given to Indian music four generations of outstanding musicians, the Mewati maestro, Pandit Jasraj had his initial grooming in music under his father, the late Motiramji. He started his career as an accompanist tabla player. He then underwent intensive tutelage under his elder brother and guru, the late Sangeet Mahamahapadhyaya Pandit Maniramji. He has been guided by his spiritual guru, the late Maharana Shri Jaiwant Singhji of Sanand. He has received numerous awards and titles, including Padmabushan, Sangeet Markand, Sangeet Natak Academy award and Rajiv Gandhi Award for professional excellence.

Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki was popular musician who strode the classical and the Marathi stage music with equal ease. Born in 1932 in Mangeshi, Goa, as a son of the head priest, he received his classical training under Pandit Jagannath Purohit. Influenced intensely by both the immense traditions inherent in Indian Classical Music as well as the scope it provided for modern innovations, Pandit Abhisheki gave full rein to his creative abilities by blending traditional ragas with new compositions and introducing the western operatic style to the Marathi theatre. He received several awards including Padmashri and the Sanger Natak Akademi Award.

Pandit Abhisheki absorbed several ideas from all his teachers to from his own style of Hindustani classical. He was a doyen of Agra – Jaipur Gharana and one of the greatest Maestros of Indian Classical Music. He believed in improvisation and developing ones own style rather than sticking with the style of the guru or a Gharana and encouraged his students to do the same, as exemplified by the innovative style of is student Shubha Mudgal.

He sang for more than sixty years. And he sang till almost the very last, weaving a special urgency and earnestness in his treatment of melody. The late Pandit Mallikarjuna Mansoor who sang with a new creative impulse each time, was born in Mansoor village in Dharwar, Karnataka in 1910, Pandit Mansoor was trained initially in the basics of Carnatic music from Shri Appayya Swami. He then received training in the Gwalior Gharana style under Pandit Neelakanta Bua, followed by training in Jaipur – Atrauli Gharana tradition by Ustad Manji Khan and Ustad Bhurji Khan. His style has thus been an assimilation of the influences of these three musical traditions. He was bestowed with Sanger Natak Academy Award, the Padma Vibhshan and the Kalidas Samman (from the Madhya Pradesh Government).