Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan

Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan is a Ghatam exponent from Kerala, India. He is the first artist to receive the noted Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship for Ghatam. It was his father who taught him the first lessons in mridangam. Thrippunithura Mahadevan, the son of his father's sister, was a Ghatam scholar. Later he got expert training from Parassala Ravi and his cousin Padmabhushan T. V. Gopalakrishnan.

He passed Gana Bhushan from RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Thripunithura in 1982. Then he passed Gana Praveena from Swathi Thirunal College of Music in Thiruvananthapuram and later a master's degree in Mridangam from Mahatma Gandhi University.

Musical career Radhakrishnan was one of those who sought to give due recognition to the Ghatam which was known only as a supporting instrument in Indian classical music. His first stage performance was on 16 January 1967.

Radhakrishnan has played the Ghatam in concerts by famous musicians like Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, M. D. Ramanathan, Maharajapuram Santhanam, Madurai Somasundaram, Dr. M. L. Vasanthakumari, K. V. Narayanaswamy and Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna. Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award 1997 Vasai Fine Arts Society's Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Parakkadathu Koyickal Trust's Tripunithura Asthana Vidwan Puraskaram