Shri.Prafulla Athalye.




                                                     Prafulla is one of the leading Tabla players of India and is one of the
                                                     most senior disciples of Tabla Maestro Late “Ustad Allarakha.”
                                                     Prafulla started taking his initial training from “Shri. Vasant
                                                     Vishnupurikar” when he was 6 years old. After studying first 5
                                                     years from him, he studied about 14 years from “Ustad Allarakha”
                                                     and currently, Prafulla is studying under his son, Tabla Maestro
                                                     “Ustad Zakir Hussain” and “Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar”.
                                                      Overall, he has been learning since more than 28 years. Prafulla is
                                                      the recipient of many awards mainly  :-

                                                     1st prize at The Youth Festival in 1994, organized by The
                                                     University of Mumbai,

                                                     1st prize in West Zone Inter University competition at Jabalpur
                                                     and 2nd prize in All India Inter University Competition held at
                                                     Gulbarga in January 1995.

                                                    1st prize in all over Maharashtra in State level Competition
                                                    held at Amravati in January, 1995 organised by the Government
                                                    of Maharashtra.

                                                    2nd prize in the first All India National Youth Festival at Bhopal,
                                                    organised by the Government of India in January 1995.

                                                    Prafulla has passed Tabla Alankar (M.A in “Tabla”) examination
                                                    of Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Miraj in First Class.

                                                    Performances -

                                                    Prafulla gave his first Tabla solo performance at the age of 11. He
                                                    has performed number of times on All India Radio as well as
                                                    many television channels. Prafulla has given many public
                                                    performances (solo as well as accompaniment) at Various
                                                    Music Festivals & programmes in different parts of India and
                                                    abroad which includes UK, Europe, Gulf and East Asian
                                                    countries. He has also played tabla for TV commercials such as
                                                    “Sumeet Mixer”, “Mahendra Scorpio”, “Paragon Chappals”, etc.
                                                    He has played tabla with the famous singer “Hariharan” for the
                                                    Malayalam film “Magalka”. In addition to that, he has played
                                                    for many albums which includes Ustad Taufiq Qureshi’s “Redhun”
                                                    and “Colours of Rajasthan”. He had an honor to accompany some
                                                    of the stalwarts of Indian Classical Music such as :-

                                                    Ustad Allarakha,
                                                    Ustad Zakir Hussain,
                                                    Pt. Jasraj (vocal),
                                                    Pt. Birju Maharaj (kathak),
                                                    Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta (Sarod),
                                                    Pt. Ratnakar Pai (vocal),
                                                    Pt. Manohar Chimote (Samvadini) ,
                                                    Pt. Ajay Pohankar (vocal),
                                                    Pt. Nayan Ghosh (sitar),
                                                    Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya (Santoor),
                                                    Smt. Uma Dogra (kathak),
                                                    Pt. Basant Kabra (sarod),
                                                    Ustad Siraj Khan (sitar),
                                                    Pt. Pradeepkumar Barot (sarod),
                                                    Pt. Nityanand Haldipur (flute),
                                                    Shri. Luis Banks (Keyboard),
                                                    Shri. Ranjeet Barot (Drums), etc.

                                                    In addition to that, he has performed with many talented
                                                    and leading young musicians such as -
                                             
                                                    Shri. Aditya Kalyanpur (Tabla),
                                                    Shri. Rakesh Chaurasia (Flute),
                                                    Shri. Dhananjay Daithankar (Santoor),
                                                    Shri. Milind Date (Flute),
                                                    Smt. Devaki Pandit (Vocal),
                                                    Shri. Bala Bhaskar (Violin),
                                                    Smt. Dhanashri Pandit – Rai (Vocal),
                                                    Shri. Abhijeet Pohankar (Keyboard),
                                                    Shri. Nandakishor Mule (Santoor),
                                                    Shri. Vinayak Chittar (Sitar),
                                                    Shri. Ratan Sharma (Vocal),
                                                    Shri. Ravindra Chari (Sitar),
                                                    Smt. Shalmali Joshi (Vocal),                                            
                                                    Shri. Shudhdhashil Chatterji (Santoor),
                                                    Shri. Chirag Katti (Sitar),
                                                    Shri. Manish Pingale (Guitar),
                                                    Shri. Ramesh Narayan (vocal), etc and many others.

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