Achievement's & More

In recognition of his outstanding abilities as a drummer and percussion artist of great repute, many organizations have honored Arun with many awards and accolades

Part of ‘Divine Tides’ that won the prestigious Grammy award
Conferred the title ‘Asthana Vidwan' from Sri Mutt, Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Kanchipuram.
Awarded the endorsement by renowned cymbal company "ZILDJIAN", sticks company "Vic Firth", and percussions company “MEINL”
‘CMANA Endowment Award’ for an outstanding young percussion artist from Percussive Arts Centre, Bangalore
‘Ananya Yuva Puraskar’, from Ananya GML Cultural Academy, Bangalore
The honor of being the first-ever artist to introduce the electronic drums at Music Academy, Chennai
The honor of being the first-ever percussion artist to introduce the electronic drums in the field of Dance which is now used in dance performances all over the world.
Secured 1st prize in the national level All India Radio competitions performing morsing and awarded “B-grade”

Association & Collaboration With Legendary Musicians

Arun has been sharing the stage regularly with legendary Indian classical musicians such as Sarvashree Dr. R K Srikantan, Dr. M Balamuralikrishna, A K C Natarajan, Dr. T V Gopalakrishnan, Sudha Raghunathan, Dr. L Subramaniam, M S Sheela, Nithyashree Mahadevan, Vijay Siva, Dr. Kadri Gopalnath, Chitraveena N Ravikiran, Ganesh & Kumaresh, Mysore Nagraj & Dr. Mysore Manjunath, Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, Dr. Suma Sudhindra, Nagamani Srinath, Lalgudi G J R Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijaya Lakshmi, Ronu Muzumdar, Rakesh Chaurasia, U Rajesh, Rajesh Vaidya, Abhishek Raghuram, Purbayun Chaterjee, Stephan Devassy and many more.

Being part of the music fraternity in the South Indian film industry, he has performed regularly with Legendary playback singers like Dr. P B Srinivas, Dr. Rajkumar, Dr. S P Balasubramaniam, Dr. K J Yesudas, S Janaki, Vani Jayaram, P Susheela, K S Chitra, Kavitha Krishnamurthy, Malgudi Shubha, Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Vijay Prakash, Karthick and many alike.

He has featured regularly with various percussion legends in the field of Mridangam, Tabla, and Tavil such as Sarvashree Vikku Vinayakram, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Trichy Sankaran, Bickram Ghosh, Vijay Ghate, Selva Ganesh, Yogesh Samsi, Mannargudi Vasudevan, Muttukumara Swamy, Fazal Qureshi, Mannargudi Eashwaran, K V Prasad, Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma, Arjun Kumar and many alike.

Musical Initiatives

One of the founding members of the highly energetic percussion ensemble ‘Layatharanga’

Co-founder of recording company ‘Samudra Records’, where creative projects are carried out