Apoorva Gokhale's - Achievements



Apoorva has always stood out with flying colours . While she was still at school and college, she showed strong inclination and promise to give her best to music and had bagged many prestigious prizes, scholarships and awards as she went along in her performing career. Some of the highlights of her academic and musical career are:

Some of the highlights of her academic and musical career are:

  1. She is Commerce graduate from Mumbai University.
  2. A Post graduate in Indian Classical Music with first class from S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai.
  3. Recipient of prestigious fellowship in Indian Music from the Govt. Of India, Ministry of Culture
  4. Conferred with the title of Surmani by Sur Singar Sansad, Mumbai
  5. Vidyasagar Award by music forum, Mumbai
  6. Acharya S.N. Ratanjankar an Pt. K.G. Ginde Award & Scholarship
  7. Graded artiste (vocalist) of Aakashwani (All India Radio)
  8. She was a part of the group who represented India in cultural delegation to China in the year 2006.
  9. Recipient of Pandit Ramkrishnabuwa Vaze Yuva Puraskar
  10. Awarded with Late Pandit Basavraj Rajguru Yuva Puraskar by Karnataka Govt.

She has to her credit a large number of prestigious concert performances and has received praise- worthy reviews from musical genius and experts. Also, CD / cassette released by Legendary Legacy entitled Flowering Buds and MP3 CD entitled Madhumalati, comprising of compositions of 26 ragas.

Apoorva is influenced by the best of traditional musicians, but her approach towards presentation is all her own and that makes her music unique. She brings to Khyal singing an expression which, both lyrical and evocative at the same time, maintains the seriousness of the form, unimpaired.

Her coherent presentation of khyal is an aesthetic blending of imaginative alaap, an improvisation in a sonorous and scintillating voice, gracefully weaving exquisite patterns of swaras, unfolding the image of the raga with all its beauty and dignity, combined with an innate sense of laya (rhythm). She judiciously gives equal importance to both gayaki (style) and purity of raga rendition.