R P Prashanth & Pramod

R.P. Prashanth and R.P. Pramod, known as the Rudrapatna Veena Brothers, are a Bengaluru-based Carnatic veena duo belonging to a distinguished musical lineage: they are sons of vidwan R.K. Prasanna Kumar and grandsons of the veena maestro Asthana Vidwan R.S. Keshava Murthy of the Mysore Palace. They began learning veena as children and gave their veena-duet debut in 2003, since performing at venues across India, the UK and the USA (including the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana) and on All India Radio and television. They are empanelled as B-grade artists of Akashvani Bengaluru and have received honours such as the Navodaya Award from Shubhodaya Trust.