Pranav Shikarpur

Pranav Shikarpur is a Hindustani bansuri player who began learning at age seven from the late Pandit Venkatesh Godkhindi and continues advanced training with Surmani Pandit Pravin Godkhindi. He received a CCRT scholarship in 2013 and won first place in the youth instrumental category at Bengaluru's Swarashri Music Competition. He has collaborated across jazz, Carnatic, Odissi, Bharatanatyam, and Bengali folk, and also trained in Hindustani vocal and tabla; he holds a Mathematics and Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland.