page_title: Meeta Pandit
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Meeta Pandit / Career
caption_attribution_description: Meeta Pandit
context_page_description: Dr. Meeta Pandit is a Hindustani Classical vocalist and a leading exponent of the Gwalior Gharana. She is the granddaughter and disciple of Krishnarao Shankar Pandit and daughter of Laxman Krishnarao Pandit. She is the sixth in the unbroken lineage and the first woman in the family to have taken up music as a profession.
context_section_description: Meeta gave her first performance on stage at the age of 9, during a 3-day music festival ‘Prasang’ organized by her grandfather, Pt. Krishnarao Shankar Pandit at Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal. At the age of 15, she performed at the Sankat Mochan festival in Varanasi, one of India’s biggest annual classical music and dance festival. She has performed at almost all the major classical music festivals of India and abroad which include the prestigious Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Festival in 1999 and 2014 , the Dover Lane Music Conference , Kolkata in 2013 and 2019 and the Tansen Samaroh , Gwalior in 2011,2013 and 2019 . 
   
  Other notable performances :
  India International Centre (2011 & 2014)
  Nadaneerajanam, as a part of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam
  WOMADelaide , New Zealand and Australia
  Melbourne Recital Centre (2015)
  Darbar Festival , Milton Court Concert Hall, London (2018) , United Kingdom
  MERU Concert (2012, 2015) Netherlands
  Ram Marathe Smruti Sangeet Samaroh , Thane (2017)
  Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki Music Festival , Kala Academy ,Goa
  Pancham Group, Satara
  Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh (2016)
  Bagri Foundation, London (2015)
  Ustad Alladiya Khan Sangeet Samaroh , Chembur , Mumbai (2015)
  ViViDa Sangeet Sammelan , Pune (2013)
  National Centre for the Performing Arts ,  Mumbai
  Pt. Sharatchandra Arolkar Smruti Sangeet Samaroh organized by Khayal Trust , Mumbai
  Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan , Jalandhar ,Punjab (1998 and 2015)
  Shri Bhaini Sahib , Satguru Jagjit Singh Sangeet Sammelan (2017)
  C.R. Vyas Sangeet Samaroh , Vadodara (2015)
  Saptak Music Festival , Ahmedabad
  Ustad Shaik Dawood Tabla Trust , Hyderabad
  Soorya Festival ,Trivandrum ,Kerala
  Krishna Gaan Sabha ,Chennai (2013 and 2015)
  Delhi Classical Music Festival (2013)
  Thumri Festival organized by Punjabi Academy ,Delhi (2017)
  West Bengal State Music Academy Music Festival ,Kolkata (2017)
  Jnana Pravaha Music Festival , Birla Sabhagar, organized by Sangeet Ashram , Kolkata (2011)
  Strauss Reflected with David Murphy, John Suchet and Sinfonia Verdi at Cadogan Hall , London (2017)
  Bharat Sanskriti Yatra , Stein Auditorium , India Habitat Centre , New Delhi
  Madhya Pradesh Diwas , organized by the Government of Madhya Pradesh , Bhopal (2018)
  'Aadya' , Bharat Bhavan , Bhopal (2017)
  ' Swara- Music for Life' ,organized by Banyan Tree Events ,Jaipur (2015)
  De Meervaart , Netherlands
  Zee Jaipur Literature Festival , Jaipur (2018)
  SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan , New Delhi and Jammu (2015)
  'Sapthak' , Bangalore
  Akashwani Sangeet Sammelan
  Shimla Classical Music Festival
  Chowdhury House Music Conference, Kolkata (2019)
caption: At the WOMADelaide Festival, New Zealand.
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