Sri. Koushik Aital
Koushik is a young promising artist from Karnataka. He is a disciple of a renowned artist Pt.Parmeshwar Hegde from the year 2000. He has achieved many awards and successfully toured across the country. He did his Initial training under Shri. Humayun Haralapur for a period of 5 years.
Koushik has won many scholarships. Some of the noted ones are the Scholarship for Young Artistes by the Government of India in the year 2006. He was awarded first place in the ‘AIR National Level Hindustani Vocal Competition’, in the year 2006. He has received the ‘Promising Artiste Award’ from the ITC SRA in the year 2006
He has been performing at concerts, since the last 3 years, for organisations such as Rajguru Smriti, Shruti, Samvad, Ananya, Department of Kannada and Culture ( Karnataka State) at various locations such as Shimoga, Banvasi, Haveri, Mysore, Gulbarga, Dharwad, Honnavar, Mangalore, Bhopal etc.
He has also performed for the ITC-SRA at the NCPA Mumbai in January, 2006 and Performed at the Bharatiya Sangeet Vidyalaya, at the Malhaar Utstav in June, 2008, Concert at the Devnandan Ubhaykar Yuva Sangeet Utsav, August 2008, Mallikarjun Mansur Pratisthan , Dharwad on the 14th of September, 2008.
He has participated in the ‘Raag Anuraag’ concert, organized by the Parameshwar Hegde Academy and has recorded many albums in light classical Music. He is a regular performer on AIR as a ‘B’ Grade artiste.