Pt Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
Professor L K Pandit is visiting the United States from June 25th to Aug 15th 2008.
He has been invited to teach an Introductory course in North Indian classical music at the Peck School Of the Arts , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

For Panditji, Music is life and tradition, the soul. It is his strict classicism and refusal to compromise with what is popular that has earned him the reputation of being one of the only true representatives of his gharana.

Born on 5^th March 1934, Panditji is the fifth in an unbroken lineage of legendary musicians. His father Padma Bhushan Pt Krishnarao Shankar Pandit trained Panditji since early childhood in khayal. tappa, tarana, ashtapadi and thumri. 

Panditji has an unparalleled style of singing.  He follows the Gwalior gharana format faithfully, and develops ragas in the traditional Ashtaang gayaki, a systematic eight-fold elaboration of the raga. He combines sound knowledge of ragas with masterly handling of rhythm, which makes climaxing at the `sam’ a unique experience each time.

Laxman Pandit is one of the few musicians today who can render the difficult genre of tappa with ease and fluidity. Tappa is the most taxing form of singing and demands instant, protracted moves up and down the octave, which calls for constant innovation, apart from superb breath-holding capacity.
		For his services to the world of music, Panditji has been conferred with numerous awards such as Tappa Samrat, Gayak Shiromani, Swar Vilas, Pt Omkarnath Thakur Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Communal Harmony Award  and Ustad Hafiz Ali Award by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Dec. 2001)