Dr Ashwin M Dalvi

🪔 About

Dr. Ashwin Mahesh Dalvi, Ex-Chairman, Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, hense “State Minister” of Government of Rajasthan, is an Established Sur-Bahar – Sitar player and an installation artist of International repute. Ashwin inherited the love for music and arts from his family and started his training in music under the guidance of his illustrious father Sri Mahesh D. Dalvi. In the year 2003, Ashwin started his advanced training, exclusively in Sur-Bahar under the pupilage of renowned musicologist and Sitar Maestro Pt. Arvind Parikh from Itawah Gharana, friend and the senior most disciple of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Since then, he has been getting extensive talim from Pt. Arvind Parikh and learning intricacies of the Sur-Bahar, such as developing Dhrupad and Khyal ang on Sur-Bahar, silsilewar badhat (Systematic development), traditional bandishes (compositions) etc. Ashwin has performed at many prestigious events all across the world, including Tansen Sangeet Samaroh , Chhandayan USA, India International Center-New Delhi, ITC SRA-Kolkata, NCPA Mumbai, Sankat Mochan Mahotsav, Banaras and so forth. Ashwin has been awarded Doctorate on his research work on legendary Sitar Maestro Pt. Nikhil Bannerjee. He has been a faculty member at renowned universities in India, namely Banasthali University, Banasthali and Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Ashwin is a panelist in scholarship programs sponsored by Ministry of Tourism and Culture, The Government of India. He has also been a Board Member of Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (Govt. of Rajasthan) (Ex), West Zone Culture Centre (Govt. of India) (Ex), North Zone Culture Centre (Govt. of India) (Ex) and North-Central Zone Culture Centre (Govt. of India) (Ex). Association with Bhavans: I have been associated with Bhavans in the past few years.