His memorable appearances include performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Royce Hall in Los Angeles and Congress Hall in Berlin. His collaboration with different genres of music has includes the enormously successful Indo-Persian venture, the Ghazal Ensemble.

The album, Rain, was nominated for a Grammy award in 2004. He has been invited as visiting faculty at the Dartington School of Music in England, the University of Washington, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been honored with numerous awards by many different Indian and international organizations.

Abhiman Kaushal represents the Farukkabad and Lucknow styles of tabla. Having been initiated into the art by his father R. B. Kaushal, who was a disciple of the legendary Amir Hussain Khan, Abhiman later continued his training under the famous Sheikh Dawood of Hyderabad and the ustad’s senior most disciple, B. Nandkumar.

Abhiman has accompanied most of the leading musicians, singers and dancers of North Indian classical music. He has toured around the world and has numerous recordings. He is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California at Los Angeles.

When: April 23, 2011
Where: Herrick Chapel- Occidental College, Los Angeles