Pt. Shivkumar Sharma has won a number of prestigious national and international honour including the ‘Sangeet Natak Academy Award’ and the Hafiz Ali Khan Award. Apart from performing at concerts the world over, he has also released a number of LP records, cassettes and compact discs. Indeed, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma is one of the few maestros to enjoy global reputation and no major musical event is complete without his participation. He has also done non classical work by combining with Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia to score music for Hindi films under the Shiv-Hari banner.

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is known internationally as the greatest living master of Bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is among a few but growing classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music. He is probably the most accessible Hindustani musician who has done a lot to popularize Bansuri and classical music among the masses.
The great Indian master of the North Indian Bamboo Flute has won a number of prestigious awards including the Sangeet Natak Academy (1984), Padmabhushan (1992) and Padma Vibhoosan (2000).

Pandit Chaurasia has not only brought new techniques, and his unique expressions of the nuances of Indian classical music with such unsurpassed elegance to playing the bansuri, elevating it to a new level as a concert instrument but has also experimented with fusion music in the international arena. He has collaborated with Western musicians like John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Mickey Hart, Louis Banks, John Handy, Amareesh Leib, Bendik Hofseth, Larry Coryell, and many others. He has received wide acclaim from celebrities such as Yehudi Menuhin, George Harrison, Professor Jean-Pierre Rampal, Patrick Moutal, and others. Pandit Chaurasia has performed extensively with "Shakti".

He has performed widely throughout the world from the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, Israel, Korea, Japan, Brazil, to Australia, Middle East, Mexico, South America and Europe, including performances at the Royal Prince Albert Hall in London, the Bolshoi Theater and Kremlin Conservatory, the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, City Hall- Concert Hall in Hong Kong, at the Nobel Award Ceremonies in Oslo, Norway, and other prestigious locations. A very hard working man, he divides his time between his Gurukul at Mumbai and Rotterdam and in between flits from place to place around the globe, performing concerts.