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 About the Artiste

Milind Raikar,Mumbai

Milind Raikar has learnt the western style of violin playing for 4 years under Prof. A. P. D'costa and Fr. Xavier at Kala Academy's - Academia de Musica Goa. He then passed Grade IV of London's Trinity College of Music, in 1983.

Milind took basic training in Classical Music from his father, Shri Atchut Raikar and later from B. S. Math, Dharwad (AIR Staff artiste). He is presently learning classical music from Pt. D. K. Datar - an eminent violinist.

His achievements include bagging the first prize at AIR Competition in 1988, and also at the Goa Music Competition in 1981. He has done his visharad from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Miraj and is also a B High Grade artiste of AIR. Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai conferred the Sur Mani title on Milind in 1988.

Milind has performed at NCPA, Nehru Centre, the first "I love Bombay" festival, Bharat Bhavan (Bhopal), and accompanied several artistes such as Neela Bhagwat, Kishori Amonkar, etc. His cassettes have been released by Ninaad. Milind is also a regular performer on AIR.

email: milraikar@yahoo.com