Introduction to.....
OUR SIR KNOWN AS BORKAR GURUJI....

 Genius and exponant...... PT TULSIDAS


 BORKAR :) :) Born 18 nov 1936 at Bori GOA....Simply is

  RECEPIENT of THE Sangeet Natak Acaedemy award 

from the president and many other prestigiousawards..... :) .....Disciple of 

 Shri Vishnupant Vashta.....Lt. Pt.Madhuker Pedneker ( P MADHUKER ), 

 a then top ranked soloist and accompanist and who developed his playing 

 groomed under various stalwarts who influenced his playing initially 

 marathi stage drama Chota Gandherwa, the ones he loved vidwans of 

 Jaipur, Kirana and other gharanas Hirabai Badodeker,Ustad Amir Khan

 Saheb, Pt Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Mallikarjun ,Pt. FirozDastoor,Pt. Ram 

 Marathe,Pt. Vasantrao Deshpande,Pt.Devendra Murdeshwar,Smt. 

 Padmavati shaligram, Pt Jitendra Abhisheki, Smt Shobha Gurtu,  

 Smt.Prabha Atre, Pt Basavraj 
Rajguru,S C R Bhatt and many others...
Areas of expertise.....
1) Excellence in tuning the Harmonium.....
2)Accompanying artists in marathi stage drama on the organ (played with

 help of both hands simultaneously and also using the feet )
3) Perfection in fingering technique enablingflow in playing the notes.....
4)Compositions in classical ragas, devotionals and Bhav sangeet and 

 forming new ragas.....
5)Training disciples in a manner that they are 
able to play all styles efficiently i.e. solo, with classical vocal, Natya 
sangeet,at recordings and gain versatality in different styles.....

 6)Trained children identifying their high aptitude for music encouraging them and persuading them to do regular riyaz.....
7)Appreciation of students and giving them opportunities from time to time im sammelans and mahotsavs.....
8)Teaching all kinds of compositions, explaining the aesthetic part in active accompaniment like use of fingers while playing 'sanyukta aksharas' mru, kra etc.

9)'Sudha bani, sudha mudra ' and pampering all of us along with kaki.....guiding us in our day to day life issues, good sense of humor....

10)Politeness, down to earth nature, always to learn, mastery in playing Harmonium and organ.....

11)written informative books on his forte.....

12)A huge Shishya pariwar namely.....allexceptionally talented and with our gurus hands on our heads blessing us..... Kedar Naphde, Sudhir Nayak, Suvarni Nayak, Sima Shirodker, Ajay Jogleker, Dr. Manisha Kulkerni, Sharad Khadilker, Niranjan Lele, Sidhdhesh Bicholker,(Child prodigiies...include Jyutika Gokarna, Unmeshkhaire, Amol Abhyanker, Bharat Balvalli now a well known singer)  Me began with harmonium fingering...and Vinayak Prabhu learnt Natyasangeet and Sugam.....

13)Has many cd and cassetts released and few books published which includes 

1)Samwadini Sadhana covering Notations and fingering techniques.....

2) Sath Sangit( Autobiography) andothers.....

P S : has a lovely Cd released of "NAANDI" played on organ which is a series of invocstions in marathi stage drama..... :)ALL of us here are his extended family.... :) and will remain so :)

                                                                                                         .....  N B

Pt Tulsidas Borkar