Pandit Hom Nath Upadhyaya (4 July 1943 – 7 September 2016) was a Nepali tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music.
[4] He played globally as a soloist and accompanist in both Hindustani and Western musical traditions, including for artists such as Manilal Nag,[5] Tarun Bhattacharya,[6] Mahesh Kale,[4] Steve Gorn,[7] Jim Pepper,[8] and Paul Livingstone.
[2][13] His students include his son Pramod Upadhyaya,[14] Sarita Mishra,[15][16] Dheeraj Shreshtha,[17] Atul Gautam, Rob Wallace,[18] Rabin Lal Shreshtha,[19] and Achyut Ram Bhandari.
[20] Upadhyaya was conferred the Kirateshwar Sangeetshram Award and Nararaj Dhakal Award, and was a recipient of the Narayan Sangeet Pratishtan Fellowship of the Royal Nepal Academy and collaborative project grant from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara.
[21][12][22] Upadhyaya died on 7 September 2016 in Om Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.