Being a disciple of Indian Classical Music, Nishad is trying to give a new twist to classical music by blending it with today’s fusion to keep our Indian culture alive.

Nishad Kishore Pandey is a resident of Udaipur. He gives music education through ‘Sangeet Pravah World’, a music institution founded by his father Guru Pandit Awadh Kishore Pandey. The classes have been available in both online and offline modes for the last thirty years.

Nishad says his father had taught music for twenty-eight years at CPS School from where Nishad also did his schooling. He is learning music from his father’s Guru, Pandit Narendra Kumar Byawat. He says currently their offline classes are unavailable but online they are regularly uploading videos on their YouTube channel, Sangeet Pravah World. They call their best experts, record, post videos of Singing, Harmonium, Tabla, Dholak, Guitar, Sitar, Kathak, Violin and all other musical instruments and try to teach everything there. He says this is just an attempt to advance the education of music.

Nishad says that there are several courses in music and it is taught upto PhD level, which very few people know. It is also a subject that is vast and it requires education, hard work and efforts equivalent to any other field. He says that people take music just as a hobby and even learn it like a hobby only which is not correct.

Nishad says that he did his 11th and 12th from Arts and after schooling, he wanted to pursue music. But because there was no particular course in Music in Udaipur, he opted for B.A. in English Honors from MLSU with his secondary subject as Music. But he would like to pursue his M.A. and PhD in music only. Simultaneously, he did a Prabhakar course, which is a six-year degree course and he says he did B.A. in vocal, harmonium and tabla from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, which is a University in Allahabad and from where his own institute is affiliated.

Nishad says that since childhood he has been in this field because of his home environment like this and he got music in his upbringing. He believes that music should never be learned in a formal way because it is an informal subject. In fact, any performing art should be learned in an informal way like guru shishya tradition in Gurukuls where you learn by staying with and serving your guru. Hence, he has learned music in the same way. So he says that all his childhood memories are related to music only.

Nishad’s father is his inspiration towards music because amongst many musicians, artists and gurus, he has not seen anyone like his father because his thinking towards music is very rare as he focuses on its grammar instead of getting it mugged up. He always wants a child to become an independent artist.

Nishad says that gradually our Indian culture is changing as people are moving towards the western culture be it food, lifestyle or clothes. In the same way, we are losing the pace of Indian Classical Music, an integral part of our Indian culture which has now become difficult to keep alive. So he says his father has struggled and sacrificed a lot to keep this culture alive and he is a torchbearer who promotes this field and prepares his students to take classical music a long way ahead. So his motto is to take forward classical music along with today’s fusion.

Nishad learnt from his father that the performing arts are all interdisciplinary subjects and are interconnected. So a singer should know how to play tabla and he must have a knowledge of kathak along with a knack of acting as it is also an essential thing for a musician. Hence, a singer must be a wholesome package of everything in a true sense.

Talking about achievements, he says that he is able to give something to his music, able to teach something to students, able to share what is inside him and able to spread classical music. This is the biggest achievement for him because today he is teaching millions of people via YouTube and those people are taking knowledge of such things that they were deprived of.