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Solo Instrumental - Judges
Celebrity Judge- Nandu Bhende
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Nandu Bhende is considered as one of the pioneers of Rock Music in India. An established composer and a successful music producer, he is also a Voice trainer of high repute.
Son of the famous Marathi actor-director Atmaram Bhende and Dr Asha Bhende (Lily Ezekiel), he is the founder director of InSync Studios, the leading sound recording studio of Mumbai. He has composed music for various TV serials, theatre productions and advertising jingles. He also has many music albums to his credit released by Polygram and HMV. He has had the honour to represent India in the “Festival of India” in the Soviet Union, Muscat and Korea. |
Tushar Parte
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Tushar Parte is the son of well respected composer,the late Jaykumar Parte, and is a professional "First Call" studio guitar player for Bollywood films. He's contributed to many movie scores including several hit songs for leading music directors. Tushar has played for legends like Naushad,Kalyann ji Anand ji,R.D. Burman, Anand Milind,Vishal Bharadwaj,Aadesh Shrivastava and Pritam to name a few.In Pune he has played for Bhaskar Chandavarkar,Anand Modak,Rahul Ranade,Anand Kurhekar and Narendra Bhide.
Internationally he has composed for artists as varied as pop singer Ella Blame for a "A Thousand Kisses"; Italian experimental singer Katya Sanna for her single "Ignago e Meritevole". He has arranged music for Celtic singer Esther Valentine for her song "The Missing Mantra" and has sung and collaborated for "Strumming Are The Sages" with American musicians of California Bluegrass Association, blending Indian music with American bluegrass music.He is honoured by being selected by Martin Clayton (ethnomusicologist, England) for his book on global guitar called "Guitar Cultures" released by Oxford. He has composed music for the film "Bollywood" based on Shashi Tharoor's novel and now he is arranging for a pop album by Dawn May from London. Now he is completing an album with Janeen Leah from San Fransisco for a release in 2010. |
Atul Raninga
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Atul raninga is one of the finest keyboardist of the film industry. He started his music education at the age of eight.His father is a known folk singer of gujarat with whom he did no. of stage perfomances.He has learnt indian classical music from renowned teacher Pt. Tulsidas Borker and western music from Mr. Xavier Fernandis.Apart from live concerts he has arranged and programmed music for hit movies like Munnabhai MBBS,Lage raho Munnabhai,Masti,Kya kool hai hum,goal and many more.He has done various fusion albums with Vishwamohan bhatt,Ronu majumdar,pt Shivkumar sharma, Kala ramnath to name a fewHe has played fusion concerts with Pt Suresh Talwalkar,Trilok gurtu,Shivamani and Ronu in various city of india and he has travelled all around the wold for concerts with great singers like Asha Bhonsle and Jagjit Singh.
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