A renowned and noted clarinet maestro Pandit Shailesh Bhagwat presented a spell binding performance before the Bhopalites at State Museum here on Monday.
Shailesh Bhagwat is the most well-known disciple of Ustad Bismillah Khan. A widely travelled man of simple habits and a well-experienced artiste with polite and firm concepts has given a mesmerising performance live on stage.
The unassuming artiste of the younger generation Shailesh Bhagwat maintains the status of shehnai the divine musical Instrument he loves. Shailesh Bhagwat has rendered his Shehnai— Recitals at innumerable place in India on account of various types of occasions. Shailesh’s rendering of shehnai is marked with an emotional presentation — which has a systematic blending and an improvisation of Raga in the ‘Gayaki-Ang’ his phenomenal breath-control is superb and notable. No less noteworthy is his inclination in presenting the most intricate Ragas of his Shehanai which are less heard these days, like Raga Shivamat-Bhairav, Shahana-Bahar, Hans-Narayan, Hanskinkini, Meghraniani and many others.
The depth and range of Shailesh’s Shehnai has a thorough spiritual, scientific, logical and professional approach toward his Music. Equally eager to perform a lecture-cum-Demonstration like his concerts, Shailesh feels the intense necessity of propagating Music and every intricacy of Shehnai to each and every person who would love to understand the Music and the Instrument — Shehnai. Shailesh Bhagwat has given Concerts of shehnai for more than two decades to date. It is also reporter that he has given this performance almost after 10 years.
He is also associated with Bollywood in Shehnai recitals for leading music composers of yester-years and even today. Shailesh is also involved in lecture demonstrations for SPIC MACAY and performs for AIR and TV channels.