


He is also a special interest student of tabla under Ustad Zakir Hussain. He was awarded the State of the Arts Award from the New Jersey government twice in 1997 and 1998 as part of the National Endowment of the Arts' effort to promote cultural awareness in the U.S.A. Most notably, he has won the categorical Best Mridangist Prize from the flagship institution for promoting classical Indian music, the Music Academy, Madras, five times. During this period, he received numerous awards from traditional organizations of classical music in India. KJ Yesudas, Mandolin Srinivas, among many others. Balamuralikrishna, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Prof. He performed his first concert at the age of seven and before the age of twenty performed alongside a rare generation of Indian classical musicians like, Dr. Ramkumar and then began an official tutelage under his grandfather at the age of five. Raghu, he first learned the fundamentals of the mridangam under his uncle, Shri. The grandson and disciple of the great mridangam maestro, Shri. A rare phenomenon in the world of music, Anantha started his musical journey on the mridangam, the principle drum of the Carnatic tradition.
