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Guru Prasanna
 Khanjira Guru Prasanna'''(1976), is one of the leading young percussion artistes' from India. He plays Khanjira, the single handed frame drum and a percussion instrument used in South Indian Classical music. He is considered as one of the very competent and sought after khanjira artistes' of Bangalore.

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Personal Information
''' He was born in Bangalore in 1976 to Smt. G. Leelavathi and Sri K. Gundappa. He is happily married to Pallavi, who too is a music student. He was initiated to learn Mridangam at the age of 6, on 14th of November 1983 under the tutelage of Vidwan R. Sathyakumar at Sri Ayyanar College of Music. He continued his further learning under the guidance of versatile percussion maestro, Layakala Prathibha Mani Vidwan Anoor R Ananthakrishna Sharma.

Along side learning mridangam, he was also encouraged to play other instruments right from his early days. He was playing khanjira and ghatam in the classes as well. He got great opportunities to perform along side his Guru on khanjira. He started enjoying instrument and the challenges it had to offer as well and started developing strong interest to learn khanjira too.

He got inspired by the playing of khanjira maestro Vidwan G Harishankar and started learning khanjira under Nada Gambheera Vidwan C P Vyasavittala, an accomplished khanjira artist and premier disciple of Vidwan G Harishankar.

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Guru's
 Guruprasanna started his learning under Vidwan R. Sathyakumar''', who taught him the art of Mridangam playing emphasizing on the basics. He is currently learning under Vidwan Anoor R. Ananthakrishna Sharma and Vidwan C P Vyasavittala.

Journey
Khanjira Guruprasanna is well-known in the South Indian Classical Music fraternity. He has accompanied with a host of starlwarts such as Dr. R. K. Srikantan, T. K. Govinda Rao, T. V. Shankaranarayanan, Dr. N. Ramani, Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, O. S. Thyagarajan, A. K. C. Natarajan, M. S. Sheela, Kunnukudi R. Vaidyanathan, Sanjay Subramanyam, T. M. Krishna, Unnikrishnan, U. Shrinivas, N. Ravikiran, Nagaraj/Manjunath, Kadri Gopalnath, Sudha Raghunathan and many others. He has given Khanjira accompaniment with the Mridangam greats such as Dr. T. K. Murthy, A.V. Anand, M. S. Ramaiah, Trichy Shankaran, Guruvayur Dorai, Srimushnam V. Rajarao, Mannargudi Eashwaran, Trichur Narendran, Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma and many others.

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Recognition
''' Recipient of Karnataka State Scholarship from 1989-91

Secured 1st Prize in Khanjira with B-grade in AIR National level competitions – 1998

Awarded Ananya Prathibhe for Khanjira – 2000

Awarded Best Khanjira Artist by the Karnataka Gana Kala Parishat during the 33rd Annual Conference – 2002

Awarded Late Sri B. Seetharam Iyengar Memorial award given to young, talented percussionist with the title Khanjira Praveena, by Sri Thyagaraja Aradhana Samithi of Sri Rangaswamy Temple established by Vidwan V. Praveen – 2005

CMANA Prize, awarded to the talented young percussionist in the 25th Thaalavaadyotsav of Percussive arts centre – 2006

Awarded Ananya Yuva Puraskar, an annual youth award for excellence in the field of Khanjira - 2007

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References & Links
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Category:Carnatic instrumentalists Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Mridangam players Category:Kanjira players