Prafulla Athalye

Shri. Prafulla Athalye is a senior disciple of Legendary Tabla maestros Ustad Allarakha, Pt. Arvind Mulgaonkar and Pt. Anindo Chatterji. Prafulla is an ‘A’ Grade artist of All India Radio and has won many music competitions including National Inter University Competition - 1995 organized by Association of Indian Universities and a National award in ‘Rashtriya Yuva Utsav - 1995’ organized by Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. Prafulla is one of the finest tabla players of India and is one of the very few versatile Tabla players and has proven his command not only in Tabla Solo but also in all forms of Tabla accompaniment such as Vocal, Instrumental or Kathak Dance. Currently he’s working as a faculty for Tabla for ‘Phoenix Gharana School of Indian Arts’, located at Scottsdale, AZ since 2013. He has performed internationally in more than 22 countries so far besides India and US and has had an honor of a company stalwarts of Indian classical music, such as his Guru Ustad Allarakha, Ustad Zakir Hussein, Ustad Amjad, Ali Khan, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, Dr. Smt. N. Rajam, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Pt. Birju Maharaj, Pt. Rakesh Chaurasia, Smt. Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar, etc and many others.