Dr Kalyani has composed a variety of bandishes in different Ragas. She has composed the lyrics as well as music for these bandishes. She has also composed Taraanas.
She has composed music for dance dramas and short musicals. She has experimented with the themes of these dance dramas by including contemporary subjects like environmental pollution and degradation of natural resources. She has tried to link these concepts with stories from Indian mythology. The music is also a fusion of traditional classical music and contemporary music.
Kalyani has conceived, developed and presented a unique concept of Vocal-Harmonium Jugalbandi. Harmonium accompanying a singer is well-known, but harmonium doing jugalbandi with the singer is unheard of. Kalyani developed this pioneering idea and this novel concert was first presented in Pune in 2010. This was probably the first time in the history of Hindustani classical music that a complete concert of a Jugalbandi between the vocalist and the Harmonium took place. At this concert, the Harmonium was played by Upendra Sahasrabuddhe, disciple of the veteran Harmonium player, Pandit Appasaheb Jalgaonkar. What made the concept even more appealing, was that Kalyani did Jugalbandi not only with the Harmonium, but also with the Tabla. Amit Joshi, disciple of the legendary Ustad Allah Rakha Khan played the Tabla at this very intriguing concert. The highlight of the concert was that Kalyani ably presented both, the gayaki ang, as well as the vadan ang.
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