He has received training in the Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra gharanas, and is considered one of the finest representative of all three schools.
He received his first lessons in music from his father N D Kashalkar, a lawyer by profession and an amateur vocalist and musicologist.
[2] Ulhas Kashalkar initially worked as a programme executive at the Mumbai station of All India Radio.
He possesses the ability to switch between three styles (namely Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra), at times even in the course of a single performance.
One can only imagine Kashalkar's questionless loyalty to his various gurus, and his own prodigious capacity to assimilate and consolidate the incoming knowledge.