TheIndian Music Archive

Hindustani classical · born c. 1949

Padma Talwalkar

A singer who carried three gharanas into one voice, and kept returning to the discipline of her gurus.

Instrument
Khayal vocal
Gharana
Jaipur-Atrauli gharanaGwalior gharanaHer khayal training began in the Gwalior style, and she absorbed Gwalior-Agra-Jaipur elements from Gajananrao Joshi.Kirana gharanaHer first guru, Pt. Pimpalkhare, belonged to the Kirana gharana; she also studied with Nivrittibua Sarnaik of the Kirana and Jaipur schools.
Schools & gurukuls
Taalyogi AashramFamily and lineage of the guru

We have no checked official pages for Padma Talwalkar yet. Suggest an official link.

Where to start

Begin listening

Start here

An Eternal Raga — Raga Nawakauns

Music Today

Published on the record label's own channel.

Watch on YouTube

Catalogue entry

Recordings are embedded from official or authorised channels and never rehosted. Nothing plays on its own, and starting one closes another. Where an editor has added a note, it explains why that recording was chosen — not what happens inside it.

Biography

Life

Padma Talwalkar is a Hindustani khayal vocalist based in Pune and one of the senior-most exponents of the Jaipur-Atrauli tradition. Writing in The Hindu in 2018, Shailaja Khanna described her as having "the distinction to learn from three gurus from different schools of Hindustani classical music".

Her early training was in the Gwalior style with Gangubhai Pimpalkhare. She then studied with Mogubai Kurdikar, who lists her among her prominent disciples, and afterwards with Gajananrao Joshi, described as a repository of the Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra gharanas, and with Nivrittibua Sarnaik of the Kirana and Jaipur gharanas.

Her birth year is given as 1949 in some accounts; in the 2018 interview she spoke of "all my nearly 70 years". The archive records the year as approximate until a reliable source confirms it.

Suggest a correction to this section

Musical contribution

What they brought to music

Her singing combines the Jaipur-Atrauli gayaki with material absorbed from the Gwalior, Agra and Kirana traditions through her three gurus, and she has spoken of rigorous training rather than pleasing an audience as the ground of her music.

Suggest a correction to this section

Lineage & company

Teachers, students and musical connections

In the documented teaching trees

Where the archive's lineage research places Padma Talwalkar, and the teaching links recorded around them inside each tree.

People

Grouped by the kind of relationship the sources record — who taught this musician, who they taught, family, and the people they played with.

Teachers and gurus

Students and disciples

Family

Influence

Schools, gurukuls and institutions

Recognition

Honours and recognition

Highest national honour first, then by year.

  • 2016Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
  • 2004Pandit Jasraj Gaurav Puraskar
  • 2009Vatsalabai Bhimsen Joshi Award
  • 2010Rajhans Pratishthan Puraskar
  • Fellowship, National Centre for the Performing Arts, MumbaiA two-year fellowship; she also held a five-year scholarship from the Bhulabhai Memorial Trust.

Community

Memories from the community

Personal recollections, not verified history

These are memories shared by listeners and musicians. They sit apart from the sourced biography above, and an editor reads each one before it appears.

  • No memories have been shared yet.

Members can share a memory of Padma Talwalkar. Sign in or create an account.

Provenance

Sources and image credits

No photograph of this musician is published here yet; we use only images we are permitted to show, with credit.

Suggest a correction to this section

Continue exploring