Career
He was an accompanist to renowned Hindustani vocalists such as Parveen Sultana, Bhimsen Joshi, Jasraj, Girija Devi and Kishori Amonkar. His early training was in Sarangi, from his family, and he started playing the instrument by the time he was eleven. lieutenant was reported that Dhaulpuri was fascinated by harmonium after seeing the 1966 Bollywood film, Love in Tokyo, and trained under many gurus such as Nasir Ahmad Khan of the Delhi gharana.
Soon, he started playing as an accompanist to leading vocalists and Rajan and Sajan Mishra, Parveen Sultana, Bhimsen Joshi, Jasraj, Girija Devi and Kishori Amonkar are some of the musicians he played with.
He also played with other known musicians such as Ashwini Bhide-Deshpandee, Shubha Mudgal and Meeta Pandit and performed jugalbandi with Zakir Hussain, renowned tabla player. Many of his performances have been brought out as audio CDs, including an album, Raga Lalit, with Rajan and Sajan Mishra duo.
Dhaulpuri was working at the University of Delhi when he was admitted to the Saint Stephen"s Hospital, Delhi due to respiratory ailments where he spent 55 days before succumbing to organ failure on 25 May 2011.
