Hailing from Pt NANA SAHAB PANSE GHARANA of Pakhawaj vadaks , Krushna was born in Beed District of Maharashtra. He started learning the art form of playing pakhawaj from SHRI VISHNUPANTH LONDHE & BHARAT SODGIR at an early age. Following the guidance from his guru SHRI VISHNUPANTH LONDHE, he has been learning under the tutelage of SHRI TAALYOGI Pt. SURESH TALWALKAR JI for more than a decade.

As a result of his Sadhna & blessings from his gurus , he has been awarded & recognised
several times, here is a list to name a few :
1) First Prize in Akhil Bhartiya Pratibha Puraskar, New Delhi 2015.
2) Pandit Vasantrao Ghorpadkar Memorial Award 2016 N.C.P.A, Music Form, Mumbai.
3) Pandit Vasantrao Deshpande Youth Award, Nagpur 2016.
4) First Prize at Baba Harivallabh Competition, Jalandhar 2016.
5) First prize in All India Radio Competition.
6) Pandit Nandan Mehta Classical Pakhawaj Award, Ahmedabad 2015.
7) Gold Medal in National Youth Festival, 2017.
8) Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Scholarship, 2017-18.
9) CCRT Scholarship 2018-19

CONCERTS
He has been invited to perform at several prestigious Music festivals as a PAKHAWAJ SOLO ARTIST , such as
- Saptak Music Festival, Ahmedabad 2016.
- India International Centre, New Delhi 2015.
- N.C.P.A Godrej Theater, Mumbai.
- Pandit Vasant Rao Ghodpadkar Memorial Day, Satara 2016.
- Baba Harivallab Competition, Jalandhar 2017
- Pandit Vasanta Rao Deshpande Competition 2017.
- Pandit Jitendra Abhishek’s mahotsav 2017
- N.C.P.A and SavaNi organised Bhavitya 2019
- Sri Namdev Sangeet Classes, Kudal.
Apart from being an excellent soloist , Krushna has accompanied several legend and maestros for their concerts , such as Pt.Uday Bhawalkar, Pt.Rupak Kulkarni, Vijay Prakash, Rakesh Chaursia, Pt.Rahul Deshpande, Pt Raghunandan Panshikar, Vidushi Manjusha Patil
Kathak exponents : Pandita Shama Bhate, Prerana Deshpande, Soniya Parchure
Bharatanatyam exponents :Sucheta Chaphekar, Asha Sunilkumar
TEACHER
Following footsteps of his gurus , Krushna has started KRUSHN NAAD PAKHAWAJ
GURUKUL , in Pune , to provide Music education for students of Pakhawaj , he currently
has 25 residential students & 50 students are day Scholars .
Krushna is an Empanelled GURU at School of Performing Arts , Bhartiya Vidyapeeth Deemed University , Pune.