Pandit SATYADEV PAWAR
VIOLIN MAESTRO
An ardent devotee and
worshipper of Lord Hanuman, the famous and powerful eternaly celibate Monkey God of
the Hindu Mythology, Pandit Satya Dev Pawar began his study of music at the age of
eleven in the erstwhile Jodhpur State of Rajasthan, India.
Late His Highness Maharaja Hanumant Singhji sponsored young Pawar to train on the
violin under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (the famous son of Baba Allauddin Khan) thus
continuing the unbroken musical lineage, "the Seni Baba Allaudin Gharana,"
descended from Mian Tansen, the chief musician in the Moghul Emperor Akbar's court in 15th
century India.
Later, Satyadev Pawar apprenticed under Pandit Ravi Shankar, another illustrious
disciple of Baba and thus gained fame as one of the best known 'shishyas' of these great
Gurus.