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Awards & Fellowships

M.P. Govt. Scholarship from 1981 to 1985

National Fellowship from 1987 to 89

Ustad Allauddin Khan Fellowship in 1993

Sanskriti Award in 1994
(The citation of Sanskriti Award)

Dagar Gharana Award(2001) by Mewar Foundation


Receiving award from
Shri. K.R. Narayanan (then Vice President)


Receiving award at City Palace, Udaipur
from Shri Arvind Singh, Mewar

National Kumar Gandharva Award in 1998 by M.P.Govt.

Governer's Citation from Maryland,USA


Receiving Award from
Shri. Digvijay Singh(Chief Minister)

GUNDECHA BROTHERS
The Citation of Sanskriti Award
          The importance of the Gundecha Brothers - Umakant and Ramakant - to Hindustani classical music is not that they belong among the few though rising number of those who have made the art of Dhrupad their vocation but that they exhibit a certain state of the Art quality in the style of their performance. This is firstly their vocalism which is strong, resonant and exquisitely shaped for time and tension, and than their concert technique that mashes with each other so perfectly that their combined presence on the stage is not of two singers but of one Raga and one song. This is a subtle evolution of the art in the Jugalbandi format, which the brothers have developed. 
          Born in the fabled city of Ujjain, Umakant studied in Madhav Music college and took a post graduate degree in Music and Economics and Ramakant did the same in Music and Commerce.
          They studied Dhrupad at the Dhrupad Kendra of Bhopal from 1981 to 1985 under he great Dagarvani Maestro Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar and Late Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. The Brothers are striking examples of a highly successful transmission through the Guru Shishya Parampara.
          The Gundecha Brothers have been recipients of the Madhaya Pradesh government scholarship and the National Fellowship of the Government of India. Today the bothers represents the leading edge of younger generation of Dhrupad singers of Hindustani Classical Music.

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