Ankit Parikh

Dr. Ankit Parikh is one of the talented Pakhawaj artistes of the India. He has learnt Pakhawaj under  Goswami Sri Kalyan rai ji Maharaj sri , the acharya of vallabh sampraday and vidwan of Nana Panse Gharana. Later he moved to lucknow and took further talim from Dr . Raj Khushiram, disciple of Pakhawaj wizard Swami Pagal das ji. 

Ankit belongs to temple tradition of Pushti bhakti marg. He is gifted musician carrying forward the rich tradition of Pakhawaj with dedication and hard work. He is not just an excellent solo artist but a well known Pakhawaj accompanist as well. He has great ability to adapt singing or playing style of fellow musicians and improvise with the mastery of technique and temperament of music rendition. He has already been performing all over the india with  renowned and young musicians both and has been much appreciated for his performances. 
Ankit has been felicitated with various award for his active participation in promoting Pakhawaj such as Mridang Gaurav award 2019, Junior research fellowship award 2019 by Ministry of Culture, Girnar Ratna award 2017, Taalmani  award 2010  Swati Thirunal award 2020 by Dhrupad mela Varanasi etc . Apart from Being extremely talented musician, Ankit is only young Pakhawaj artist who holds the Doctorate degree in Pakhawaj from Banaras Hindu university. 

He has been performing in several music festivals of India with renowned artistes like Pt. Ritwik Sanyal, Pt. Gundecha bros., Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar, Pt. Nirmalya Dey, Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, Pt. Prem kumar Mallick, Vidushi Madhu bhatt tailing, Pt. Bhajan Sopori,  Pt. Abhay Sopori etc. Nowadays he is involved in teaching Pakhawaj to younger generation.

He has been performing in the major music festivals for more than 15years such as Sankat Mochan Sangit samaroh, Tansen music Festival, Harvallabh music festival, Dhrupad mela, And many more.

Ankit is very sensible towards practical and theoretical approach of Pakhawaj. He always tries to satisfy the students with very easy education method. He believes that if the student is ready to learn and the teacher is willing to teach student so anyone can learn this music art through virtual or physical mode. He believes in traditional approach of Guru shishya parampara as well as the modern education method. Guru shishya parampara means the method of education will be under the observation of teacher, in which the student totally surrender to the teacher and have trust that whatever he will get from the teacher will blossom his life.

In virtual method the student will be given a proper syllabus in which all the steps will be mentioned about lesson. The video or audio shall be shared sothat he or she can recall or remember about what they discuss