Kunal Gunjal is an award winning Santoor artist and is a disciple of Pt. Shivkumar Sharma and
has performed with Pt. Shivkumar Sharma on stage. In addition to that he has performed in
various prestigious music festivals and conferences like Pune Festival, 17th Devnandan
Ubhyakar Yuva Sangeet Utsav, Festival organized by MUSIC TODAY, National Centre for the
Performing Arts (NCPA) and he recently performed at the Gunidas Sangeet Samelan where he
opened the festival for Ustad. Zakir Hussian. He has many accolades to his honor including the
Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande Yuva Kalakar Puraskar and was also awarded at Vedic Heritage (NY,
USA) by Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj. Kunal is also a recipient of the National Scholarship,
awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and the Sawai Gandharva Scholarship.
Kunal has produced an album which features Santoor with Western Film Score Music first time
ever which won the Global Music Award in “World Music” in 2019. This album has also been
nominated for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2019.

Amit Kavthekar (“GANDA-BANDH SHAGIRD” of Late Ustad Allarakha) has rhythm running in
his veins. At the early age of six, he was being groomed in the art of playing tabla by the
legendary Ustad Allarakha. He has also been fortunate enough to be taught tabla intricacies by
Ustad Zakir Hussain – a maestro in Indian classical music an international phenomenon in the
fields of percussion and world music. Amit has played with many eminent Indian Classical
Musicians such as Ustad Zakir Hussain and Sivamani on Zee TV in India, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
at Google Talks, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan at Berklee College of Music, Ustad Ashish Khan at
Learnquest Festival at Regis College MA, Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta in Baithak, Boston MA, Pt.
Kushal Das at MIT, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma in his Documentary directed by Jabbar Patel in India,

Pt. Jasraj in his vocal recital in Pune India and many others. Recently, Amit played at the United
Nations Day Concert 2018 with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ayaan Ali Bangash and Amaan Ali
Bangash as well as with the Refugee Orchestra project. Amit has frequent collaborations with
western classical, jazz and fusion musicians – He is a member of the Purnalokha quartet along
with David Balakrishnan of the grammy winning Turtle Island Quartet. He has also played with the
Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra and is also a founder member of the band Sawaari, which
explores music from different parts of the world. Recently, Amit started working with renowned
and one of the best Jazz guitar players Al Di Meola and now he is the integral part of Al Di Meola
acoustic trio Project. Amit is currently teaching Tabla in the New England School of Music based
in Massachusetts. He also teaches master classes and workshops in universities.