The pride of Bangalore the dexterous guitarist in carnatic classical style in both acoustic and electric guitar a former child prodigy Nikhil Joshi (he performed at the age of 8) currently working in City Group as Senior Financial Analyst, USA is engaged to Poonam Katarki daughter of Air commodore P.P.Katarki. The marriage reception of this star guitarist is taking place on 10th of May and marriage follows the next day. Poonam Katarki is working in Gold Man Sachs a finance company in USA as software professional.
Nikhil Joshi is the first musician in the world to perform full-fledged Carnatic Classical concerts on the Guitar at the age of 13. Mastering the western guitar Nikhil Joshi has joined the select band of great musicians, who have adapted western instruments like clarinet, saxophone and mandolin. Son of famous doctor in Bangalore Dr.U.B.Joshi he performed in Germany, USA, World Kannada conference in Detroit, live on Berlin radio and ITV (International Television) of New York, Star Plus, Star News, ETV, Udaya TV among his five hundred plus concerts.
Nikhil Joshi has been honored with awards like 'Arya Bhata Award' 1998, 'Ugadi Purashkar' 1999, 'Outstanding Young Indians Award' 2000, 'Youth Excellence Award' 2001, 'Sangeeta Ratnakara' Award 2002, 'Pratibha Bhushan' award 2003 and many others. Lahari recording company has brought out 10 of his audio albums-Classics - Carnatic Classical on Guitar, Guitar Comes Alive, Veena Greets Guitar, Sri Purandara Dasa, Carnatic Compositions, Classical strings, Classical Guitar Comes Alive , Impulse, Sri and Saraswati.