AdvertisingOn Monday, the brothers were named the joint winners of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award. Despite their training in Carnatic classical, they have comfortably collaborated with Hindustani classical musicians including Ut Zakir Hussain and a slew of western classical musicians including saxophone player George Brooks. But their deep-rooted training and technique in Carnatic classical music has turned them into significant musicians for the connoisseurs and the uninitiated. In the last two decades, he has done classical concerts and taught Indian classical music to a host of students at his academy in Mumbai. The prestigious fellowship of the Akademi (Akademi Ratna), known to be a rare honour, went to tabla maestro Ut Zakir Hussain, dance exponent Sonal Mansingh, Sattriya exponent Jatin Goswami and Bharatanatyam exponent and Director of Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir, K Kalyanasundaram Pillai.

Source: Indian Express July 16, 2019 19:07 UTC