Rahul Sharma, an acknowledged master of the Santoor is an established classical musician with more than 12 album releases. Son of Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul hailing from Mumbai has been playing Santoor under his father since the age of 12. After his training, he accompanied his father on stage for around two years, performing in several concerts and music festivals all over India. His first ever album was recorded in 1997 by Navras featuring a live duet concert recording in Toronto with his father titled 'The Golden Heritage' and he hasn't looked back since. Rahul is the first young musician to collaborate with the world-renowned pianist Richard Clayderman to not just cut an album (The Confluence) but also to give live concerts. And, he is the youngest Indian musician to perform at the WOMAD (World of music, Arts and Dance) festival in the UK, as well as the Edingburgh festival, Scotland (2001). Apart from performing at concerts the world over, he has also released a number of music albums. Some of his albums are 'Melody of Jammu and Kashmir', 'Time Traveller' etc. He has also done non classical work  for Hindi films  'Mujhse Dosti Karoge' under Yash Chopra banner and assisted his father in composing music for movies like 'Lamhe', 'Darr' and 'Chandni'.  He has won a number of prestigious awards like the Indo- American Society Award (1998), Bollywood Music Award for promising New Music Director, New York (2002), First MTV (IMMIES) Music Award for Best Classical / Fusion Album 2003 and many more.