Vidyadhar Oke
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Vidyadhar Gopal Oke |
| Born |
30 May 1952 Maharashtra, India |
| Genres | Hindustani classical music, Bhajan, Indian folk music |
| Occupation(s) | Harmonium Player, Doctor of Medicine, Music Researcher, Musical instrument inventor |
| Instruments | Harmonium |
| Website | www.22shruti.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Harmonium | |
Vidyadhar Oke is a Doctor of Medicine and an Indian Harmonium player, who has done unique work of 22 Shruti research and developed new musical instruments.
Oke is a Doctor of Medicine, M.B.B.S, M.D. (Pharmacology) from University of Mumbai, India. He later trained in Management at the London Business School and Duke University, U.S.A; and in Clinical Research at Wellcome Trust, U.K. For years he gave services in the Pharmaceutical Industry but at 52 years, he gave away the post of President and dedicated himself to Music Research.
Oke, a renowned third generation harmonium artist playing the instrument since the age of four, later learned from the maestro late Pandit Govindrao Patwardhan for 25 years to become an ace Harmonium player. His first public performance was a harmonium solo in 1972 on Mumbai Doordarshan. He was a performing member at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Mumbai) and played harmonium in music programmes at the centre, arranged by Purushottam Laxman Deshpande and Ashok Ranade. He taught Harmonium as Hon. Lecturer at the Department of Music, University of Mumbai. He accompanied on harmonium; singers including Asha Bhosale,Vasantrao Deshpande, Sudhir Phadke, Kumar Gandharva, Manik Varma,Malabika Kanan, Rashid Khan, C. R. Vyas, Jitendra Abhisheki, Vidyadhar Vyas, Suresh Wadkar, Jyotsna Bhole, Padma Talwalkar, Shruti Sadolikar, Satyasheel Deshpande, Asha Khadilkar, Upendra Bhat, Shubha Mudgal, Vijay Koparkar, Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar, Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Rahul Deshpande; and played with Solo Tabla by Alla Rakha, with Vocal and Mridangam by T. V. Gopalakrishnan.
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